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Lord Howe Island is on daylight saving time: LHDT (UTC+11) until Sun, Apr 4, 2027.

Use this LHST Time Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

Lord Howe Standard Time

Offset: LHST is 10 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Map of the areas on Lord Howe Standard Time (LHST)
LHST part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC+11.

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward 30 minutes for daylight saving time and observe Lord Howe Daylight Time (LHDT).

123456789101112End: Lord Howe Standard Time (LHST) ended on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set 30 minutes forward to Sunday, October 4, 2026, 2:30 am02:30 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the first Sunday of October.

123456789101112Start: Lord Howe Standard Time (LHST) starts on Sunday, April 4, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set 30 minutes back to Sunday, April 4, 2027, 1:30 am01:30. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of April.

See Australia daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

LHST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +1030 - basic
  • +10:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +1030 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (10) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of ten hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
Time zones with the GMT +10:30 offset:
  • ACDT - Australian Central Daylight Time
  • LHST - Lord Howe Standard Time