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North American time zones:

PDT – Pacific Daylight Time

Current time in Los Angeles

Friday, July 3, 2009 at 5:01:55 PM PDT

Los Angeles will stay on PDT until Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:00 AM
when clocks are moved to Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 01:00:00 PST

Time zone offset: UTC - 7 hours

PDT is 7 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that PDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter PST is used instead

Time zone abbreviations: PDT, HAP

Full name is Pacific Daylight Time
HAP – Heure Avancée du Pacifique (French)

Email time zone indicator: -0700

An email sent from someone in the PDT time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0700" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0700" does not have to be in PDT, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below
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Where and when is PDT observed?

PDT is used in the summer in these US states (PST during winter)

  • California
  • Idaho - western counties
    Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone and north part of Idaho
  • Nevada
  • Oregon - except most of Malheur county
  • Washington

PDT is used during summer in these Canadian provinces (PST during winter)

  • British Columbia - except for these eastern communities
    Cranbrook, Golden, Invermere which is in the MST/MDT zone
  • Yukon

PDT is used during summer in these Mexican states (PST during winter)

  • Baja California Norte
Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example locations in PDT

Other time zones in North America

Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list
  • NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
  • NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
  • AST - Atlantic Standard Time
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • EST - Eastern Standard Time
  • EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
  • CST - Central Standard Time
  • CDT - Central Daylight Time
  • MST - Mountain Standard Time
  • MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
  • PST - Pacific Standard Time
  • AKST - Alaska Standard Time
  • AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
  • HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
  • HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time

Time zones in other regions

More regions will be available later

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