UTC to COT Converter
Quick answers
UTC is 5 hours ahead of COT year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in UTC correspond to 4:00 am to 12:00 pm in COT.
For example, 12:00 pm UTC is 7:00 am COT. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 2pm-5pm UTC, which is 9am-12pm COT.
Compare UTC time with COT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Universal Time Coordinated is 5 hours ahead of Colombia Time
12:00 pm12:00 in UTC is 7:00 am07:00 in COT
UTC to COT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 2pm-5pm in UTC which corresponds to 9am-12pm in COT
12:00 pm12:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 Colombia Time (COT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 UTC / 7:00 am07:00 COT
| UTC | COT |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 7pm |
| 1am | 8pm |
| 2am | 9pm |
| 3am | 10pm |
| 4am | 11pm |
| 5am | 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 |
| 00:00 | 19:00 |
| 01:00 | 20:00 |
| 02:00 | 21:00 |
| 03:00 | 22:00 |
| 04:00 | 23:00 |
| 05:00 | 00:00 |
| 06:00 | 01:00 |
| 07:00 | 02:00 |
| 08:00 | 03:00 |
| 09:00 | 04:00 |
| 10:00 | 05:00 |
| 11:00 | 06:00 |
| 12:00 | 07:00 |
| 13:00 | 08:00 |
| 14:00 | 09:00 |
| 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 |
Universal Time Coordinated
Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.
UTC representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Etc/UCT
- Etc/UTC
- Etc/Universal
- Etc/Zulu
- UCT
- UTC
- Universal
- Zulu
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Colombia Time
Offset: COT is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in South America
Countries using this time zone: Colombia
Principal Cities: The largest city in the COT time zone is Bogota in Colombia, with about 7.674 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Cali, Medellin, Barranquilla, Cartagena.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Colombia Time (COT) do not change for daylight saving time, so COT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
COT representations, usage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for COT
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone