Convertisseur de Fuseaux
Convertissez date et heure entre fuseaux horaires IANA. Affiche décalages, heure d'été et jour de la semaine.
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What is this for?
Time zones are deceptively annoying. A meeting at "9am" means different absolute moments in London, Bratislava, and New York — and the offset between any two of them changes twice a year because of daylight saving, on different dates. This tool takes a wall-clock time in one IANA zone and tells you the exact equivalent in another, with current offsets, the UTC instant, and the day-of-week for both ends.
When to use it
- Scheduling a call across continents — confirming what "3pm CET" is in your colleague's zone.
- Reading a log timestamp recorded in UTC and translating it to local time for a user-facing report.
- Checking whether a deploy window or maintenance slot crosses a DST boundary.
- Sanity-checking that a cron expression in
America/New_Yorkfires at the moment you expect from your own zone. - Working out the day-of-week change when crossing the international date line.
Why IANA zones (not "GMT+2")
An IANA zone like Europe/Bratislava or America/New_York encodes the historical and ongoing rules for that location — DST start and end dates, time-zone changes (Russia abolished DST in 2014; Türkiye dropped DST in 2016), even Samoa skipping a whole day in 2011. A bare offset like "GMT+2" tells you nothing about whether DST applies, what the rule was last year, or what it'll be next year. Browsers ship the IANA database (via ICU/CLDR) and update it automatically, so the conversion stays correct over time.
Common gotchas
- DST transitions create ambiguous and missing times. When a clock falls back, 02:30 happens twice; when it springs forward, 02:30 doesn't exist at all. The tool picks the standard-time interpretation by default; if you need the other side, shift by an hour either way.
- Offsets aren't constants. "CET" is UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer (CEST). The output always shows the actual offset for the date you entered, so trust the displayed offset over the abbreviation.
- Country abbreviations are not zones. "EST" is ambiguous (US vs Australian); "IST" can mean Indian, Irish, or Israeli. Always pick the IANA zone, not the abbreviation.
- Historical accuracy is good for the modern era but breaks down for very old dates. Pre-1970 timestamps may use approximated offsets in some browsers.
- Storing dates: always use UTC. Convert at display time. The UTC line in the output gives you the canonical value to write to your database.