CST(Cuba Standard Time)
Cuba Standard Time (CST) is the standard time of Cuba, five hours behind UTC.
- UTC offset
- UTC−05:00
- Abbreviation
- CST
- Full name
- Cuba Standard Time
- Military letter
- Romeo (R)
- Regions
- Cuba
- IANA zones
- America/Havana
- Converter model
- Fixed offset.
What CST means
Cuba keeps its own national standard time, which shares an offset with Eastern Standard Time but is legislated separately in Havana.
- Cuban schedules usually write CST, which reads identically to the North American Central meaning six hours behind UTC.
- Use the IANA identifier America/Havana when Cuban time matters in software.
Cities on this offset
These cities keep UTC−05:00 as their standard offset:
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
- Camagüey
- Santa Clara
Other meanings of CST
CST is used for more than one time zone. This page describes Cuba Standard Time; the other meanings have their own pages and their own offsets:
- CST — Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00)
- CST — China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
Zones with the same offset
- EST — Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00)
History
Cuba adopted a national standard offset in the early twentieth century and has set its own clock policy independently ever since.