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

Romeo Time Zone

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

Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the R time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.804 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Lima, Bogotá, Toronto, Quito.

Daylight Saving: Some places on Romeo Time Zone (R) keep the same time all year, while others use R for only part of the year and change their clocks for daylight saving time; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Map of the areas on Romeo Time Zone (R)
R all year R part of the year

Today some of the lighter areas are on UTC−4 (Cuba Daylight Time, EDT).

R 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 R
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
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