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EDT/EST

Eastern Daylight Time

GMT -4

EST automatically adjusted to EDT time zone, that is in use

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GMT +0

Time Difference

Eastern Daylight Time is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
7:00 pm19:00 in EDT is 11:00 pm23:00 in GMT

EST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-1pm in EST which corresponds to 1pm-6pm in GMT

7:00 pm19:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
11:00 pm23:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

7:00 pm19:00 EDT / 11:00 pm23:00 GMT

EDT GMT
12am (midnight) 4am
1am 5am
2am 6am
3am 7am
4am 8am
5am 9am
6am 10am
7am 11am
8am 12pm (noon)
9am 1pm
10am 2pm
11am 3pm
12pm (noon) 4pm
1pm 5pm
2pm 6pm
3pm 7pm
4pm 8pm
5pm 9pm
6pm 10pm
7pm 11pm
8pm 12am (midnight)
9pm 1am
10pm 2am
11pm 3am
0:00 4:00
1:00 5:00
2:00 6:00
3:00 7:00
4:00 8:00
5:00 9:00
6:00 10:00
7:00 11:00
8:00 12:00
9:00 13:00
10:00 14:00
11:00 15:00
12:00 16:00
13:00 17:00
14:00 18:00
15:00 19:00
16:00 20:00
17:00 21:00
18:00 22:00
19:00 23:00
20:00 0:00
21:00 1:00
22:00 2:00
23:00 3:00

Eastern Standard Time

Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

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Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

EST to GMT Converter - Savvy Time (3)End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) has ended on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.

EST to GMT Converter - Savvy Time (4)Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) starts on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.

EST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

  • -05 - basic short
  • -0500 - basic
  • -05:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

  • -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

  • Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'

IANA/Olson: Reflects EST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

  • America/Atikokan
  • America/Cancun
  • America/Cayman
  • America/Coral_Harbour
  • America/Detroit
  • America/Fort_Wayne
  • America/Grand_Turk
  • America/Indiana/Indianapolis
  • America/Indiana/Marengo
  • America/Indiana/Petersburg
  • America/Indiana/Vevay
  • America/Indiana/Vincennes
  • America/Indiana/Winamac
  • America/Indianapolis
  • America/Iqaluit
  • America/Jamaica
  • America/Kentucky/Louisville
  • America/Kentucky/Monticello
  • America/Louisville
  • America/Montreal
  • America/Nassau
  • America/New_York
  • America/Nipigon
  • America/Panama
  • America/Pangnirtung
  • America/Port-au-Prince
  • America/Thunder_Bay
  • America/Toronto
  • Canada/Eastern
  • EST
  • EST5EDT
  • Jamaica
  • US/East-Indiana
  • US/Eastern
  • US/Michigan

Time zones with the GMT -5 offset:

  • 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

Greenwich Mean Time

Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

Countries: It is used in following countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.

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GMT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

  • Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
  • +00 - basic short
  • +0000 - basic
  • +00:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

  • +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'

IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

  • Africa/Abidjan
  • Africa/Accra
  • Africa/Bamako
  • Africa/Banjul
  • Africa/Bissau
  • Africa/Conakry
  • Africa/Dakar
  • Africa/Freetown
  • Africa/Lome
  • Africa/Monrovia
  • Africa/Nouakchott
  • Africa/Ouagadougou
  • Africa/Sao_Tome
  • Africa/Timbuktu
  • America/Danmarkshavn
  • Atlantic/Reykjavik
  • Atlantic/St_Helena
  • Eire
  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT+0
  • Etc/GMT-0
  • Etc/GMT0
  • Etc/Greenwich
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Dublin
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
  • GMT
  • GMT+0
  • GMT-0
  • GMT0
  • Greenwich
  • Iceland

GMT Abbreviation: Several time zones share GMT abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

  • Greenwich Mean Time - UTC +0
  • GMT+03:00 - UTC +3
  • GMT+06:00 - UTC +6
  • GMT - UTC +0
  • GMT+11:00 - UTC +11

Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:

  • 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

EST to IST GMT to EST PST to EST EST to GMT PST to GMT

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FAQs

How to convert EST to GMT? ›

  1. pm EST. is. 5 pm GMT.
  2. pm EST. is. 6 pm GMT.
  3. pm EST. is. 7 pm GMT.
  4. pm EST. is. 8 pm GMT.
  5. pm EST. is. 9 pm GMT.
  6. pm EST. is. 10 pm GMT.
  7. pm EST. is. 11 pm GMT.
  8. pm EST. is. 12 am GMT.

Is GMT always 4 hours ahead of EST? ›

No. Never. GMT is UTC+0, whereas EST is UTC-5, so GMT is always 5 hours ahead EST (Eastern Standard Time). In the summer months, Eastern Time switches to EDT, Eastern Daylight Time, which is UTC-4.

How far ahead is GMT from EST? ›

GMT, or Greenwich Mean Time, is the time at the Royal Conservatory in London, England. GMT is five hours ahead of EST, or Eastern Standard Time, which is the time zone used by cities such as New York.

How to convert time to Greenwich time? ›

  1. pm IST. is. 7 am GMT.
  2. pm IST. is. 8 am GMT.
  3. pm IST. is. 9 am GMT.
  4. pm IST. is. 10 am GMT.
  5. pm IST. is. 11 am GMT.
  6. pm IST. is. 12 pm GMT.
  7. pm IST. is. 1 pm GMT.
  8. pm IST. is. 2 pm GMT.

What is the GMT offset for Eastern time? ›

Eastern Standard Time (EST) or UTC/GMT -5

Its time offset is −5 hours (UTC/GMT -5) during standard time and −4 hours (UTC/GMT -4) during daylight saving time.

Which timezone is GMT? ›

UT is also called Greenwich Mean Time ("GMT"). What is UT Based On? UT is based on the local time in Greenwich, England.

How do you understand the conversion of GMT to local time? ›

Apply the offset: To convert from GMT to local time, add the time difference if the local time zone is ahead of GMT, or subtract it if the local time zone is behind GMT. For example, if the local time zone is GMT-5, subtract 5 hours from the GMT time to convert to local time.

What timezone is 4 hours behind GMT? ›

Eastern Daylight Time. (4 hours behind GMT.) Central Standard Time. (6 hours behind GMT.)

What is GMT +5 time? ›

GMT plus five-time zone is a time zone that is five hours east of GMT. GMT was the official standardized unit of time until 1972, when it was replaced by UTC, or, Coordinated Universal Time. They are still the same units and easy to understand when interchanged with each other.

How far behind GMT is America? ›

GMT is 5 hours ahead of EST.

What is the gap between EST and GMT? ›

Greenwich Mean Time is 4:00 hours ahead of Eastern Time

The UTC time standard was introduced in 1960 with a commitment to remain within one second of GMT by the addition of a leap second every few years. NTP distributes UTC to connected devices via the internet.

What does 9am GMT mean? ›

Greenwich Mean Time. 9:00 AM. (GMT+00:00) Greenwich Mean Time. 7 hours ahead Pacific Daylight Time.

How do I calculate GMT? ›

Greenwich Mean Time is calculated by using the sun. When the sun is at its highest point, exactly above the Prime Meridian, this means that it is 12:00 noon at Greenwich. The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line that splits the Earth up into two equal halves: the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.

How to calculate GMT time with local time formula? ›

Calculation:
  1. Difference between Greenwich and IST = 82.5° of longitudes.
  2. Total Time difference = 82.5 × 4 = 330 minutes.
  3. = 330/60 hours.
  4. = 5.30 hours\Local time at IST is 5.30 hours more than that at Greenwich,
  5. Therefore, if it is 12:00 pm at IST, it will be 6:30 am at GMT.

How to convert timestamp to GMT? ›

=(A1 / 86400) + 25569 Format the result cell for date/time, the result will be in GMT time (A1 is the cell with the epoch number). For other time zones: =((A1 +/- time zone adjustment) / 86400) + 25569.

Is EST GMT+8? ›

The Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 4 hours behind of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

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