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CST to EST

Convert US Central Time to Eastern Time, one hour apart all year, with the day. Free, with no account or uploads.

Convert CST to EST

Change the time, or type other places after to.

Type a time and places: 3pm EST to IST, or 9am New York to Delhi and Tokyo.

Large cities now; every town of over 15,000 people once the list loads.

How it works and help
Times come from your browser's own time-zone data, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. Places are from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0, read from this site's own files when you search.

A little help along the way

Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is sent anywhere.

  1. Say what you are doingSee the time in other places is the usual. Convert a time takes what you type; Find a meeting time lays everyone's day side by side.
  2. Add placesSearch for a city, a country's capital or an abbreviation such as EST. Your own time comes first.
  3. Read the answerEach clock says the time, the day, the gap from you, daylight or night, and when its clocks next change.
  4. Share itCopy a link that carries the places and time, or add a meeting to your calendar.

Questions people ask

How many hours apart are CST and EST?
One hour: Eastern Time is an hour ahead of Central Time, in summer too, since both change their clocks on the same days.
Is CST China's time?
CST also stands for China Standard Time. Here it means US Central Time, Chicago's; type Shanghai for China.
Can I convert to other places too?
Yes. Add more places after to, separated by commas, such as 9am CST to EST, London and Delhi.

This page is the World clock, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the World clock's own page.

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