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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 18, 2026 = 8:00 am08:00 HLV (UTC-4), Oct 18, 2026

PDT is 3 hours behind HLV.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 3 hours behind HLV. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PT is 4 hours behind HLV.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in HLV. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm in HLV.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in HLV. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 13:00 to 22:00 in HLV.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 3 hours behind Hora Legal de Venezuela.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 8:00 am08:00 in HLV

PDT to HLV call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3pm09:00-15:00 in PDT which corresponds to 12pm-6pm12:00-18:00 in HLV

5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 Hora Legal de Venezuela (HLV). Offset UTC -4:00 hours

5:00 am05:00 PDT / 8:00 am08:00 HLV

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Pacific Time

Pacific Time (PT) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in North America. PT also called Pacific Coast Time. PT is not static but switches between PDT and PST.

Territories observing the Pacific Time Zone are primarily in North America. It runs through the western United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico. From November 1, 2026, most of British Columbia in Canada keeps UTC-7 all year instead.

Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PT time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.821 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tijuana, San Diego, Mexicali, San Jose.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

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

PT 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 an offset of eight hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Uniform - Military abbreviation for PT
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
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

Hora Legal de Venezuela

Offset: HLV is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Venezuela

Principal Cities: The largest city in the HLV time zone is Caracas in Venezuela, with about 3 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Maracaibo, Valencia, Barquisimeto, Ciudad Guayana.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Hora Legal de Venezuela (HLV) do not change for daylight saving time, so HLV stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

HLV representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -04 - basic short
  • -0400 - basic
  • -04:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Quebec - Military abbreviation for HLV
  • Q - short form of 'Quebec'
Time zones with the GMT -4 offset:
  • AST - Atlantic Standard Time
  • EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
  • AMT - Amazon Time
  • BOT - Bolivia Time
  • CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
  • CLT - Chile Standard Time
  • GYT - Guyana Time
  • HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
  • Q - Quebec Time Zone
  • VET - Venezuelan Standard Time