North American time zones:

PST – Pacific Standard Time

Time zone offset: UTC - 8 hours

PST is 8 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that most places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using PDT instead in the summer. See below for details.

Time zone abbreviations: PST, HNP, PT

Full name is Pacific Standard Time
HNP – Heure Normale du Pacifique (French)
PT – Tiempo del Pacífico (Spanish)

Email time zone indicator: -0800

An email sent from someone in the PST time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0800" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0800" does not have to be in PST, 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 PST observed?

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

• 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 PST in the winter and PDT during the summer

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

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

• Baja California Norte

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in PST

• Los Angeles - This time zone offset is used during winter 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
• PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
• PMDT - Pierre & Miquelon Daylight Time
• PMST - Pierre & Miquelon 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