Timezone: America/Halifax

UTC-04:00

Timezone Profile

Daylight Saving Time	Not available
IANA Timezone	America/Halifax
Offset	-04:00

The primary country that uses the time zone America/Halifax is 🇨🇦 Canada.

Standard Time Available

AST · Atlantic Standard Time

UTC-04:00

Daylight Saving Time

ADT · Atlantic Daylight Time

UTC-03:00

Date and Time Format Standards

The table provides a side-by-side comparison of different date and time format standards. Each row represents a unique format standard such as ATOM, COOKIE, ISO, and RFC, among others.
Format	Date and Time
ATOM	2024-12-21T08:55:21.733-04:00
COOKIE	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:55:21 -0400
HTTP	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:55:21 GMT
ISO	2024-12-21T08:55:21.733-04:00
ISO 8601	2024-12-21T08:55:21.733-04:00
MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss	12-21-2024 08:55:21
MongoDB	2024-12-21T12:55:21.733Z
MySQL DATETIME	2024-12-21 08:55:21
RFC 1036	Sat, 21 Dec 24 08:55:21 -0400
RFC 1123	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:55:21 -0400
RFC 2822	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:55:21 -0400
RFC 3339	2024-12-21T08:55:21-0400
RFC 7231	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:55:21 AST
RFC 822	Sat, 21 Dec 24 08:55:21 -0400
RFC 850	Saturday, 21-Dec-24 08:55:21 AST
RSS	Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:55:21 -0400
SQL	2024-12-21 08:55:21.733 -04:00
SQL Time	08:55:21.733 -04:00
UTC	2024-12-21T12:55:21.733Z
Unix Epoch	1734785721
W3C	2024-12-21T08:55:21-04:00
dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss	21-12-2024 08:55:21
yyyy-dd-MM HH:mm:ss	2024-21-12 08:55:21
yyyy-dd-MM hh:mm:ss a	2024-21-12 08:55:21 AM

Related Time Zones

A table with a list of time zones that have the same time offset. Including name and time zone abbreviations.

There are 41 time zones in the table.
IANA Timezone	Offset Name	Abbr
America/Anguilla	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Antigua	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Aruba	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Barbados	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Blanc-Sablon	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Boa_Vista	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
America/Campo_Grande	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
America/Caracas	Venezuela Time	GMT-4
America/Cuiaba	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
America/Curacao	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Dominica	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Glace_Bay	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Goose_Bay	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Grenada	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Guadeloupe	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Guyana	Guyana Time	GMT-4
America/Halifax	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Kralendijk	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/La_Paz	Bolivia Time	GMT-4
America/Lower_Princes	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Manaus	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
America/Marigot	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Martinique	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Moncton	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Montserrat	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Port_of_Spain	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Porto_Velho	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
America/Puerto_Rico	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Santo_Domingo	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/St_Barthelemy	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/St_Kitts	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/St_Lucia	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/St_Thomas	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/St_Vincent	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Thule	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Tortola	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
America/Virgin	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
Atlantic/Bermuda	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
Brazil/West	Amazon Standard Time	GMT-4
Canada/Atlantic	Atlantic Standard Time	AST
Etc/GMT+4	GMT-04:00	GMT-4

For Developers

php


<?php

// Solution 1
// Set the default time zone
date_default_timezone_set('America/Halifax');

// Solution 2
// Use this to get the current date and time in the specified time zone.
$timezone = new DateTimeZone('America/Halifax');
// Create a new DateTime object
$date = new DateTime('now', $timezone);
// Print the current date and time
echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); // 2023-01-01 00:00:00

python


# Solution 1
# Set the default time zone
from datetime import datetime
# Import the pytz module
import pytz
  
# Create a timezone object
tz = pytz.timezone("America/Halifax")
# Get the current time
time_now = datetime.now(tz)
# Format the current time
current_time = time_now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
  
# Print the current time
print("The current time:", current_time) # The current time: 00:00:00

javascript


/* 
* Solution 1
* Set the default time zone
*/
const date = new Date();
/* 
* Use the toLocaleString() method to get the current date and time in the specified time zone.
*/
const currentTime = date.toLocaleString("en-us", {timeZone: "America/Halifax"});
/* 
* Print the current date and time
*/
console.log(currentTime); // 1/1/2023, 12:00:00 AM