PST to IST Converter - Savvy Time (2024)

PDT/PST

Pacific Daylight Time

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 12 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time
7:00 am07:00 in PDT is 7:30 pm19:30 in IST

PST to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 6am-8am in PST which corresponds to 7:30pm-9:30pm in IST

7:00 am07:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
7:30 pm19:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours

7:00 am07:00 PDT / 7:30 pm19:30 IST

PDT	IST
12am (midnight)	12:30 pm
1am	1:30 pm
2am	2:30 pm
3am	3:30 pm
4am	4:30 pm
5am	5:30 pm
6am	6:30 pm
7am	7:30 pm
8am	8:30 pm
9am	9:30 pm
10am	10:30 pm
11am	11:30 pm
12pm (noon)	12:30 am
1pm	1:30 am
2pm	2:30 am
3pm	3:30 am
4pm	4:30 am
5pm	5:30 am
6pm	6:30 am
7pm	7:30 am
8pm	8:30 am
9pm	9:30 am
10pm	10:30 am
11pm	11:30 am
0:00	12:30
1:00	13:30
2:00	14:30
3:00	15:30
4:00	16:30
5:00	17:30
6:00	18:30
7:00	19:30
8:00	20:30
9:00	21:30
10:00	22:30
11:00	23:30
12:00	0:30
13:00	1:30
14:00	2:30
15:00	3:30
16:00	4:30
17:00	5:30
18:00	6:30
19:00	7:30
20:00	8:30
21:00	9:30
22:00	10:30
23:00	11:30

Pacific Standard Time

Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST timezone is Los Angeles from USA with population about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in the area are Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) has ended on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.

Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) starts on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.

PST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

-08 - basic short
-0800 - basic
-08:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

-0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
U - short form of 'Uniform'

IANA/Olson: Reflects PST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

America/Ensenada
America/Los_Angeles
America/Santa_Isabel
America/Tijuana
America/Vancouver
Canada/Pacific
Mexico/BajaNorte
PST8PDT
US/Pacific

PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
Paraguay Summer Time - UTC -3

Time zones with the GMT -8 offset:

AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
PST - Pacific Standard Time
PT - Pacific Time
PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
U - Uniform Time Zone

India Standard Time

Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia

Countries: It is used in following countries: India

Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST timezone is Mumbai from India with population about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in the area are Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai

Daylight Saving: India Standard Time (IST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore IST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, India Standard Time remains the same

IST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+0530 - basic
+05:30 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates five hour and thirty minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.

IANA/Olson: Reflects IST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Asia/Calcutta
Asia/Kolkata

IST Abbreviation: Several time zones share IST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
Iran Standard Time - UTC +3:30

PST to IST Converter - Savvy Time (2024)

FAQs

How many hours is IST from PST? ›

Pacific Standard Time is 13 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time.

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What is the best meeting time for PST and IST? ›

When is the best time to schedule a meeting with PST and IST? Usually it is preferable to schedule meetings in the early morning, or late evening for the person in PST and in the evening, or early morning for the person in IST.

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Who is 3 hours ahead of PST? ›

1. New York. Time Zone Difference: New York operates in the Eastern Time Zone, which is three hours ahead of California's Pacific Time. When it's 12:00 PM in California, it's already 3:00 PM in New York.

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Does India follow PST or EST? ›

India has only one time zone. The country has officially observed India Standard Time (IST) since 1947. However, the UTC+5:30 offset has been used as the local standard time in India since 1906. India is a large country that stretches almost 3000 kilometers (1864 miles) from west to east.

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What is the most effective meeting time? ›

Meeting time: Between 20 and 40 minutes.

Make sure to balance conversations around work, interpersonal relationships and professional development in these meetings. Depending on the frequency, a meeting duration between 20 and 40 minutes is optimal.

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Who is 2 hours ahead of PST? ›

Pacific Standard Time (PST) is 2 hours behind Central Standard Time (CST). To convert PST to CST, you have to add two hours.

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What is the most productive meeting time? ›

If you wait until the end of the day, it's going to be harder for your team to make decisions—and you may not get the outcome you want or need from your meeting. Bottom line? If you want to avoid decision fatigue, schedule your meetings between 10 a.m. and noon.

Does California have two time zones? ›

San Francisco, after all, is more than five degrees' longitude west of San Diego. Our eastern border with Arizona is more than 10 degrees east of our northwest corner. These distances mean that even though California is one time zone, it's not really the same time wherever you are in California.

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How many time zones are there? ›

There are 24 regions (Time Zones) around the world with a time difference of one hour. This system has been adopted internationally by setting the total time difference around the world as 24 hours. Further, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is individually adopted in countries and regions.