Time Zone Converter – Convert Between Any IANA Time Zones
The Time Zone Converter lets you instantly translate a specific date and time from one geographic time zone into one or more target zones. Whether you are scheduling a video call with colleagues in Tokyo and London, comparing business hours across continents, or calculating when an international event airs in your local time, this tool provides accurate results by relying on the IANA (Olson) time zone database built into every modern browser.
How to Use the Converter
Enter a date and time in the input field, then select your source time zone — the zone the entered time belongs to. Next, choose one or more target time zones from the dropdown list, then click Convert. Each result shows the equivalent local time, the UTC offset (for example, UTC+5:30), and whether Daylight Saving Time is active in that zone for the selected date.
You can add up to 10 target time zones at once, making it easy to compare a single moment across an entire global team. The Swap button reverses the source and the first target zone, useful when you receive a meeting time in a foreign zone and want to know what it corresponds to locally.
Live Clock Mode
Enable the Live toggle to switch the converter into real-time world-clock mode. The input field locks to the current time and auto-refreshes every second, keeping all target-zone clocks continuously updated. This is ideal for keeping a persistent multi-city clock on screen while working across time zones.
Daylight Saving Time Handling
Daylight Saving Time (DST) shifts the clock forward by one hour during summer months in many countries. Because DST start and end dates differ by country — and some regions do not observe DST at all — manual offset calculation is error-prone. This converter resolves DST automatically: enter any date and the tool applies the correct offset for that exact moment, flagging active DST with an orange badge next to the result.
Understanding UTC Offsets
Every time zone is defined by its offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For example, UTC+9 means the local time is 9 hours ahead of UTC, while UTC-5 means it is 5 hours behind. Some zones have half-hour or quarter-hour offsets: India operates at UTC+5:30 and Nepal at UTC+5:45. This converter displays the precise offset string for every result, accounting for DST where applicable.
Supported Time Zones
The tool covers all major IANA time zone identifiers, including regions across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Notable examples include:
America/New_York— Eastern Time (ET),UTC-5/UTC-4during DSTEurope/London— Greenwich Mean Time / BST,UTC+0/UTC+1during DSTAsia/Kolkata— India Standard Time,UTC+5:30(no DST)Asia/Tokyo— Japan Standard Time,UTC+9(no DST)Australia/Sydney— AEST / AEDT,UTC+10/UTC+11during DST
Common Use Cases
Remote team scheduling: Convert a proposed meeting time from your local zone to all team members' zones simultaneously to identify conflicts or unsociable hours before sending an invitation.
Travel planning: Enter your departure time to quickly determine what time you arrive in the destination zone, without mental arithmetic across time offsets.
Live event coverage: Convert broadcast start times — sports events, product launches, conference keynotes — to your local time so you never miss them.
Software and log analysis: Developers often work with UTC timestamps in server logs. This converter helps translate those timestamps into local times for context.
Copying and Sharing Results
Each result has an individual copy button that places the formatted time and UTC offset on your clipboard. The Copy All button at the top of the results panel exports every converted zone as a plain-text list, ready to paste into a calendar description, message, or document.