PST(Pacific Standard Time)
Pacific Standard Time (PST) is the standard time of the North American Pacific coast, eight hours behind UTC.
- UTC offset
- UTC−08:00
- Abbreviation
- PST
- Full name
- Pacific Standard Time
- Military letter
- Uniform (U)
- Regions
- Western United States, Western Canada, Baja California
- IANA zones
- America/Los_Angeles, America/Vancouver, America/Tijuana
- Converter model
- Fixed offset.
What PST means
PST is the standard time of California, Washington, Oregon and Nevada, of British Columbia and Yukon in Canada, and of Baja California in Mexico.
- PST is heavily used in software and media schedules because so much of the technology and entertainment industry sits on this offset.
Cities on this offset
These cities keep UTC−08:00 as their standard offset:
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Vancouver
- Tijuana
History
Pacific time is one of the standard zones adopted by North American railways in 1883 and confirmed in United States law by the Standard Time Act of 1918.