Pacific counties and states follow PST(Pacific Standard time). The major regions following PST include Idaho, Washington, California, Nevado, and Oregon.
The standard time of the pacific is forwarded one hour to adjust energy consumption in the warm season. This adjusted time of Pacific is referred to as PDT(Pacific Daylight Time). PDT is 7 hours behind UTC/GMT. Use of PDT starts on the 2nd Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. This page offers a ticking PDT clock and a table providing the regions in which this time is in use & the offset of PDT from UTC/GMT.
Country: | USA/Canada/Mexico |
Time zone abbreviation: | PDT |
Time zone name: | Pacific Daylight Time |
Time offset: | UTC/GMT-07:00 |
Right now noticing PDT - Pacific Daylight Time. Right now has same time region offset as PDT (UTC - 7) however unique time region name. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is 7 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).