Pacific Daylight Time is UTC−07:00, the summer offset for the North American Pacific Time zone.
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PDT is the daylight-saving setting of America/Los_Angeles. When PDT is active, Los Angeles lines up with Phoenix (year-round MST) and is three hours behind New York on EDT. Confirm the season before converting West Coast meeting times.
The offset shown above is computed from America/Los_Angeles at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
When daylight saving ends, Pacific Time returns to PST (UTC−08:00).
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) uses the IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles. Pacific Daylight Time is UTC−07:00, the summer offset for the North American Pacific Time zone.
Right now Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-07:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is PDT.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled PST and daylight time is labeled PDT. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with America/Los_Angeles as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses PDT. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.