North American time zones:

PDT – Pacific Daylight Time

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?

US states using PDT in the summer and 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

Canadian provinces using PDT in the summer and PST during the winter

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

Mexican states using PDT in the summer and PST during the winter

• Baja California Norte

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in PDT

• Los Angeles - This time zone offset is used during summer in this location

Other time zones in North America

Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list

• ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
• AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
• AKST - Alaska Standard Time
• AST - Atlantic Standard Time
• CDT - Central Daylight Time
• CST - Central Standard Time
• EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
• EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
• EGT - East Greenland Time
• EST - Eastern Standard Time
• HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
• HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
• MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
• MST - Mountain Standard Time
• NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
• NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
• PMDT - Pierre & Miquelon Daylight Time
• PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
• PST - Pacific Standard Time
• WGST - Western Greenland Summer Time
• WGT - West Greenland Time

Time zones in other regions

• Africa
• Antarctica
• Asia
• Atlantic
• Australia
• Caribbean
• Central America
• Europe
• Indian Ocean
• Military
• Pacific
• South America

Related links

• Time zone abbreviations world-wide
• The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
• The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones