AST
Arabia Standard Time
GMT +3
Time Difference
Arabia Standard Time is 3 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time
8:00 pm20:00 in AST is 5:00 pm17:00 in GMT
AST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 11am-6pm in AST which corresponds to 8am-3pm in GMT
8:00 pm20:00 Arabia Standard Time (AST). Offset UTC +3:00 hours
5:00 pm17:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 AST / 5:00 pm17:00 GMT
| AST | GMT |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 9pm |
| 1am | 10pm |
| 2am | 11pm |
| 3am | 12am (midnight) |
| 4am | 1am |
| 5am | 2am |
| 6am | 3am |
| 7am | 4am |
| 8am | 5am |
| 9am | 6am |
| 10am | 7am |
| 11am | 8am |
| 12pm (noon) | 9am |
| 1pm | 10am |
| 2pm | 11am |
| 3pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 4pm | 1pm |
| 5pm | 2pm |
| 6pm | 3pm |
| 7pm | 4pm |
| 8pm | 5pm |
| 9pm | 6pm |
| 10pm | 7pm |
| 11pm | 8pm |
| 0:00 | 21:00 |
| 1:00 | 22:00 |
| 2:00 | 23:00 |
| 3:00 | 0:00 |
| 4:00 | 1:00 |
| 5:00 | 2:00 |
| 6:00 | 3:00 |
| 7:00 | 4:00 |
| 8:00 | 5:00 |
| 9:00 | 6:00 |
| 10:00 | 7:00 |
| 11:00 | 8:00 |
| 12:00 | 9:00 |
| 13:00 | 10:00 |
| 14:00 | 11:00 |
| 15:00 | 12:00 |
| 16:00 | 13:00 |
| 17:00 | 14:00 |
| 18:00 | 15:00 |
| 19:00 | 16:00 |
| 20:00 | 17:00 |
| 21:00 | 18:00 |
| 22:00 | 19:00 |
| 23:00 | 20:00 |
Arabia Standard Time
Offset: AST is 3 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
AST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- +03 - basic short
- +0300 - basic
- +03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +0300 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates three hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Charlie - Military abbreviation for AST
- C - short form of 'Charlie'
AST Abbreviation: Several time zones share AST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Atlantic Standard Time - UTC -4
- Arabia Standard Time - UTC +3
- Arabian Standard Time - UTC +3
- Argentina Standard Time - UTC -3
- Azores Summer Time - UTC +0
- Apia Standard Time - UTC +13
Time zones with the GMT +3 offset:
- EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
- MSK - Moscow Standard Time
- AST - Arabia Standard Time
- C - Charlie Time Zone
- EAT - Eastern Africa Time
- FET - Further Eastern European Time
- IDT - Israel Daylight Time
- TRT - Turkey Time
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
GMT Abbreviation: Several time zones share GMT abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Greenwich Mean Time - UTC +0
- GMT - UTC +1
- GMT+03:00 - UTC +3
- GMT+06:00 - UTC +6
- GMT+11:00 - UTC +11
- GMT-01:00 - UTC -1
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
