SAST to CST Asia
Time Difference
South Africa Standard Time is 6 hours behind China Standard Time
9:00 am09:00 in SAST is 3:00 pm15:00 in CST
SAST to CST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-12pm in SAST which corresponds to 2pm-6pm in CST
9:00 am09:00 South Africa Standard Time (SAST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
3:00 pm15:00 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
9:00 am09:00 SAST / 3:00 pm15:00 CST
SAST | CST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 6am |
1am | 7am |
2am | 8am |
3am | 9am |
4am | 10am |
5am | 11am |
6am | 12pm (noon) |
7am | 1pm |
8am | 2pm |
9am | 3pm |
10am | 4pm |
11am | 5pm |
12pm (noon) | 6pm |
1pm | 7pm |
2pm | 8pm |
3pm | 9pm |
4pm | 10pm |
5pm | 11pm |
6pm | 12am (midnight) |
7pm | 1am |
8pm | 2am |
9pm | 3am |
10pm | 4am |
11pm | 5am |
0:00 | 6:00 |
1:00 | 7:00 |
2:00 | 8:00 |
3:00 | 9:00 |
4:00 | 10:00 |
5:00 | 11:00 |
6:00 | 12:00 |
7:00 | 13:00 |
8:00 | 14:00 |
9:00 | 15:00 |
10:00 | 16:00 |
11:00 | 17:00 |
12:00 | 18:00 |
13:00 | 19:00 |
14:00 | 20:00 |
15:00 | 21:00 |
16:00 | 22:00 |
17:00 | 23:00 |
18:00 | 0:00 |
19:00 | 1:00 |
20:00 | 2:00 |
21:00 | 3:00 |
22:00 | 4:00 |
23:00 | 5:00 |
South Africa Standard Time
Offset: SAST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), South Africa
Principal Cities: The largest city in the SAST timezone is Cape Town from South Africa with population about 3.433 million people. Other major cities in the area are Durban, Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria
Daylight Saving: South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore SAST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, South Africa Standard Time remains the same

SAST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for SAST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Africa/Maseru
- Africa/Mbabane
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time
China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: China, Macau, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Shanghai from China with population about 14.609 million people. Other major cities in the area are Zhumadian, Taipei, Beijing, Nanchong
Daylight Saving: China Standard Time (CST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, China Standard Time remains the same

CST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Chongqing
- Asia/Chungking
- Asia/Harbin
- Asia/Macao
- Asia/Macau
- Asia/Shanghai
- Asia/Taipei
- PRC
- ROC
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time