What Is 8 Am Central Time To Eastern Time?

It would be 9am Eastern time if it was 8am Central time.

• US time zones

There are a couple of ways of looking at this question. You can understand the US time zones of which there are 9. They are Atlantic Standard, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaskan, Hawaii-Aleutians, Samoa, and Chamorro.

If you look at the US designations then you should know by the list that Eastern and Central time is right next to each other in the time zone segment. It means that there is only a difference of one hour between the two time zones.

• GMT

You can also look at time zones based on Greenwich Mean Time. GMT is the time set for the world and based in Greenwich, UK. Eastern Time from GMT is -4 hours. The GMT -4 means that one is moving west. Time in the west is always behind that of the east. For those who live in the central time zone then it would be GMT -5.

If you can remember the GMT time delineations then it is easy to remember that Central Time is one hour behind Eastern Time.

As mentioned Eastern Time is GMT -4 and Central is GMT -5. There is one hour difference between the two. Also, Central is -5 because it is westerly of the Eastern Standard Time zone.

• Daylight savings

Both the Eastern and Central Time Zones have daylight savings. This means that the time will always be one hour different between the time zones. Arizona is the only state that does not use daylight savings. It means that during some of the year Arizona is in line with the Mountain Standard Time and at other times of the year it is not. It has an hour's difference.

• West is less

For those who care only about the central and eastern zones always remember there is an hour's difference and that west is always less.