What's Pacific Standard Time?

The Pacific Time Zone is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time. During daylight saving time, a time offset of UTC−07:00 is used.

What states are in Pacific Standard Time?

U.S. states using PST in the winter and PDT in the summer:
  • California.
  • Idaho - western counties Show. Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone and north part of Idaho.
  • Nevada.
  • Oregon - except most of Malheur county.
  • Washington.

Is Pacific Standard Time GMT?

The Pacific Time Zone refers to a time zone which observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Greenwich Mean Time (UTC/GMT -8). Time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is GMT -7.

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