Universal Time
Universal TIme (UT): To convert a Universal time and date to a standard time and date in North America, subtract the following hours:
- Eastern Standard Time (EST) – 5 hours
- Central Standard Time (CST) – 6 hours
- Mountain Standard Time (MST) – 7 hours
- Pacific Standard Time (PST) – 8 hours
- Alaska Standard Time (AST) – 9 hours
- Hawaii Standard Time (HST) – 10 hours
To obtain daylight savings time, subtract one hour less than the above-listed values. If you get a negative number of hours, add 24 hours; in this case the result falls on the date before the UT date given. For example 6:45 UT November 9th is 1:45 am November 9th EST and 10:45 pm November 8th PST.
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