UTC offset

The UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and local solar time, at a particular place. So if the time being described is two hours ahead of UTC (such as in Kigali, Rwanda), the UTC offset would be "+02:00", "+0200", or simply "+02".

Time zones and time offsets

Main article: Time zone

World map of current time zones

Examples of the difference between local standard time and UTC

Location	Longitude	UTC offset	When UTC time is 12:00, local standard time is:	When local time is 12:00, UTC time is
Accra, Ghana	0° 12' W	UTC+00:00	12:00	12:00
Mogadishu, Somalia	45° 20′ E	UTC+03:00	15:00	09:00
Dhaka, Bangladesh	90° 23′ E	UTC+06:00	18:00	06:00
Manila, Philippines	120° 58' E	UTC+08:00	20:00	04:00
Koror, Palau	134°29′E	UTC+09:00	21:00	03:00
Suva, Fiji	178° 27′ E	UTC+12:00	00:00	00:00
Honolulu, United States	157° 51 W	UTC−10:00	02:00	22:00
Guatemala City, Guatemala	90° 32' W	UTC−06:00	06:00	18:00
Brasília, Brazil	47° 53' W	UTC-03:00	09:00	15:00

Daylight saving time

Related pages

• ISO 8601 – international standard for representing dates and times.

Other websites

• time.gov (US)
• Time Service Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory Archived 2015-08-01 at the Wayback Machine