CST
China Standard Time
GMT +8
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
G
Golf Time Zone
GMT +7
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

Compare CST time with G time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

China Standard Time is 1 hour ahead of Golf Time Zone
8:00 pm20:00 in CST is 7:00 pm19:00 in G

CST to G call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-5pm in CST which corresponds to 9am-4pm in G

8:00 pm20:00 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
7:00 pm19:00 Golf Time Zone (G). Offset UTC +7:00 hours

8:00 pm20:00 CST / 7:00 pm19:00 G

CSTG
12am (midnight)11pm
1am12am (midnight)
2am1am
3am2am
4am3am
5am4am
6am5am
7am6am
8am7am
9am8am
10am9am
11am10am
12pm (noon)11am
1pm12pm (noon)
2pm1pm
3pm2pm
4pm3pm
5pm4pm
6pm5pm
7pm6pm
8pm7pm
9pm8pm
10pm9pm
11pm10pm
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01:0000:00
02:0001:00
03:0002:00
04:0003:00
05:0004:00
06:0005:00
07:0006:00
08:0007:00
09:0008:00
10:0009:00
11:0010:00
12:0011:00
13:0012:00
14:0013:00
15:0014:00
16:0015:00
17:0016:00
18:0017:00
19:0018:00
20:0019:00
21:0020:00
22:0021:00
23:0022:00

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 Time Zone Geo Map
CST timezone map

CST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +08 - basic short
  • +0800 - basic
  • +08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
  • H - short form of 'Hotel'
IANA/Olson: Reflects CST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Chongqing
  • Asia/Chungking
  • Asia/Harbin
  • Asia/Macao
  • Asia/Macau
  • Asia/Shanghai
  • Asia/Taipei
  • PRC
  • ROC
CST Abbreviation: Several time zones share CST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Central Standard Time - UTC -6
  • China Standard Time - UTC +8
  • Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:
  • 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

Golf Time Zone

Offset: G is 7 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Military

Daylight Saving: Golf Time Zone (G) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore G 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, Golf Time Zone remains the same

G representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +07 - basic short
  • +0700 - basic
  • +07:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0700 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (07) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates seven hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Golf - Military abbreviation for G
  • G - short form of 'Golf'
Time zones with the GMT +7 offset:
  • CXT - Christmas Island Time
  • DAVT - Davis Time
  • G - Golf Time Zone
  • HOVT - Hovd Time
  • ICT - Indochina Time
  • KRAT - Krasnoyarsk Time
  • NOVST - Novosibirsk Summer Time
  • NOVT - Novosibirsk Time
  • OMSST - Omsk Summer Time
  • WIB - Western Indonesian Time