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FAQs

What does 12pm PST mean? ›

PST stands for Pacific Standard Time. GMT is known as Greenwich Mean Time. GMT is 7 hours ahead of PST. So, when it is. 12:00 am PST.

Pacific Standard Time (PST) is a standard time zone in use from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March—when Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not in effect. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is used during the remainder of the year.

California Is in the Pacific Time Zone

California shares its time zone and DST schedule with bordering states Oregon and Nevada. Meanwhile, most of Arizona, which also shares a border with California, is on Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year.

There are about four states in the Pacific time zone. Those states are California, the western counties of Idaho, Nevada, Oregon except most of Malheur County, and Washington.

When most people say 12pm, typically they're talking about the middle of the day: 12 noon. When they say 12am, they normally mean 12 midnight.

The zone is two hours ahead of the Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone, one hour ahead of the Alaska Time Zone, one hour behind the Mountain Time Zone, two hours behind the Central Time Zone, three hours behind the Eastern Time Zone, and four hours behind the Atlantic Time Zone.

For example, Pacific Standard Time (PST) in the United States and Canada can be written as UTC-8, because it is 8 hours behind UTC — for daylight saving time this would be UTC-7, because it would be 7 hours behind.

By 1929, the majority of countries had adopted hourly time zones, though some countries such as Iran, India, Myanmar and parts of Australia had time zones with a 30-minute offset. Nepal was the last country to adopt a standard offset, shifting slightly to UTC+05:45 in 1986.

Even though the Pacific time zone is only used in individual regions of three countries, it is known worldwide due to the large metropolitan areas on the American west coast. It runs along the Pacific coast from Vancouver in Canada to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Baja California in Mexico.

Pacific Standard Time (North America) is 8 hours behind the UTC universal time. What time is it in Pacific Standard Time (North America) now? It is 10:26:58 right now.

Should I say PT or PST? ›

The solution was incredibly simple, for people in places that observe Daylight Saving Time, simply omit the words “standard” or “daylight” from your time zone vocabulary. For Arizona residents, that means communicating Pacific Time, PT, during the spring/summer months and Mountain Time, during the fall/winter months.

12:00 am PST (midnight) 03:00 am EST. 01:00 am PST. 04:00 am EST. 02:00 am PST.

Yes, Pacific Standard Time (PST) is three hours behind Eastern Standard Time (EST). Each time zone in the US moving west from EST moves back by one hour; 4pm EST is 3pm CST, 2pm MST, and 1pm PST.

Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) is similar to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) but, unlike the latter, does not adjust to account for Daylight Savings Time. You can figure out which time zone you're in by searching Time Zone Map or Time Zone [CITY] UTC.