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Iceland and Ghana stay on GMT (UTC+0).

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This converter uses CDT (UTC−4), as in Havana.

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12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 18, 2026 = 8:00 am08:00 CDT (UTC-4), Oct 18, 2026

GMT is 4 hours ahead of CDT.

GMT and CST examples

These examples always use GMT (UTC+0) and CST (UTC-5). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

GMT is 5 hours ahead of CST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, GMT is 4 hours ahead of CDT Caribbean. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, GMT is 5 hours ahead of CST Caribbean.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 5:00 am to 2:00 pm in CDT Caribbean. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 4:00 am to 1:00 pm in CST Caribbean.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 05:00 to 14:00 in CDT Caribbean. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 04:00 to 13:00 in CST Caribbean.

Compare GMT time with CST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Greenwich Mean Time is 4 hours ahead of Cuba Daylight Time.
12:00 pm12:00 in GMT is 8:00 am08:00 in CDT

GMT to CDT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 1pm-6pm13:00-18:00 in GMT which corresponds to 9am-2pm09:00-14:00 in CDT

12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 Cuba Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours

12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 8:00 am08:00 CDT

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Greenwich Mean Time

Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.

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 the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.

Map of the areas on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GMT all year GMT part of the year

Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).

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 the zero UTC/GMT offset.
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
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone

Cuba Standard Time

Offset: CST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Cuba

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST time zone is Havana in Cuba, with about 2.164 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey, Holguín, Guantánamo.

Map of the areas on Cuba Standard Time (CST)
CST part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC−4 (Cuba Daylight Time).

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Cuba Daylight Time (CDT).

123456789101112End: Cuba Standard Time (CST) ended on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 12:00 am00:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

123456789101112Start: Cuba Standard Time (CST) starts on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1:00 am01:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 12:00 am00:00. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

See Cuba daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

CST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -05 - basic short
  • -0500 - basic
  • -05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Romeo - Military abbreviation for CST
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
IANA/Olson: Reflects CST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Havana
  • Cuba
CST Abbreviation: Several time zones share CST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Central Standard Time - UTC -6
  • China Standard Time - UTC +8
  • Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT -5 offset:
  • CDT - Central Daylight Time
  • EST - Eastern Standard Time
  • ET - Eastern Time
  • COT - Colombia Time
  • CST - Cuba Standard Time
  • EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
  • ECT - Ecuador Time
  • PET - Peru Time
  • R - Romeo Time Zone