Time, Date
& Timezone API

Quickly and easily get the time and date of a location or IP address, or convert the time and date of one timezone into another
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https://time.abstractapi.com/v1/convert_time
    ? api_key = YOUR_API_KEY
    & location = Oxford, United Kingdom

{
    "requested_location": "Oxford, United Kingdom",
    "longitude": -1.257677,
    "latitude": 51.752022,
    "datetime": "2020-07-01 14:22:13",
    "timezone_name": "British Summer Time",
    "timezone_abbreviation": "BST",
    "gmt_offset": "+1",
    "is_dst": true
}

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The Time, Date, and Timezone API makes it easy to find, convert, and manage timezones around the world

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Time, Date, and Timezone API Changelog

Updated endpoints for historical time and date retrieval

May 20, 2024

Added custom time formats and patterns, allowing users to personalize how dates and times are displayed

April 8, 2024

Timezone database updated

March 14, 2024

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What is the Time, Date, and Timezone API?

Abstract’s Time, Date, and Timezone API is a simple, powerful, and lightweight REST API that can identify the current time, timezone, and other details from a given location (via the /current_time API endpoint), or convert the time from one location to another at the current time or at some point in the past or future (via the /convert_time endpoint).

For example, using the /current_time endpoint, you could request the current time of "Los Angeles, CA" or of the longitude and latitude of -118.243683 / 34.052235 (also of Los Angeles) or a given IP address, and the IP would return the current time, timezone, and other details for that location.

Similarly, using the /convert_time endpoint, you should submit "Los Angeles, CA", a time in the past, present, or future, and "Paris, FR", and the API would return what the time will be in Paris, France when it is the specified time in Los Angeles, CA.

What are the common use cases of the Time, Date, and Timezone API?

We see a wide variety of uses cases for the Time, Date, and Timezone API across many industries and countries around the world. Any time you are interacting with a user in a different location than yours, it's best to understand what time of day it is there and interact with them appropriately as a result of that. Similarly, you may want that information of the time in your location reflected back to your users. For example, say you provide chat or email support to users around the world. If someone in Tokyo attempts to contact your support team in London via chat, the support team may not be available. However, by using Abstract's Time, Date, and Timezone API, and specifically with /convert_time endpoint, you could tell the user in Tokyo exactly when the support team will be available. There are many powerful use cases for this API, including by combining it with our popular Public Holiday API to understand when public holidays are in a given location. If you have a unique use case for the API that you would like to share with us, just let us know!

Is Daylight Savings Time (DST) taken into account with this API?

Yes, the API includes detailed information on Daylight Savings Time, including whether it applies to a given timezone and whether it applies at given time to the request timezone.

What timezones does the API support?

While the API documentation will provide the most up to date list of supported timezones, the list of supported timezones as of June 2020 includes: Australian Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST), Acre Time (ACT), ASEAN Common Time (ACT), Australian Central Western Standard Time (ACWST), Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT), Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT), Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), Australian Eastern Time (AET), Afghanistan Time (AFT), Alaska Daylight Time (AKDT), Alaska Standard Time (AKST), Alma-Ata Time (ALMT), Amazon Summer Time (AMST), Amazon Time (AMT), Armenia Time (AMT), Anadyr Time (ANAT), Aqtobe Time (AQTT), Argentina Time (ART), Arabia Standard Time (AST), Atlantic Standard Time (AST), Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), Azores Summer Time (AZOST), Azores Standard Time (AZOT), Azerbaijan Time (AZT), Brunei Time (BDT), British Indian Ocean Time (BIOT), Baker Island Time (BIT), Bolivia Time (BOT), Brasília Summer Time (BRST), Brasília Time (BRT), Bangladesh Standard Time (BST), Bougainville Standard Time (BST), British Summer Time (BST), Bhutan Time (BTT), Central Africa Time (CAT), Cocos Islands Time (CCT), Central Daylight Time (CDT), Cuba Daylight Time (CDT), Central European Summer Time (CEST), Central European Time (CET), Chatham Daylight Time (CHADT), Chatham Standard Time (CHAST), Choibalsan Standard Time (CHOT), Choibalsan Summer Time (CHOST), Chamorro Standard Time (CHST), Chuuk Time (CHUT), Clipperton Island Standard Time (CIST), Central Indonesia Time (CIT), Cook Island Time (CKT), Chile Summer Time (CLST), Chile Standard Time (CLT), Colombia Summer Time (COST), Colombia Time (COT), Central Standard Time (CST), China Standard Time (CST), Cuba Standard Time (CST), China Time (CT), Cape Verde Time (CVT), Central Western Standard Time (CWST), Christmas Island Time (CXT), Davis Time (DAVT), Dumont d'Urville Time (DDUT), AIX-specific equivalent of Central European Time (DFT), Easter Island Summer Time (EASST), Easter Island Standard Time (EAST), East Africa Time (EAT), Eastern Caribbean Time (ECT), Ecuador Time (ECT), Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), Eastern European Time (EET), Eastern Greenland Summer Time (EGST), Eastern Greenland Time (EGT), Eastern Indonesian Time (EIT), Eastern Standard Time (EST), Further-eastern European Time (FET), Fiji Time (FJT), Falkland Islands Summer Time (FKST), Falkland Islands Time (FKT), Fernando de Noronha Time (FNT), Galápagos Time (GALT), Gambier Islands Time (GAMT), Georgia Standard Time (GET), French Guiana Time (GFT), Gilbert Island Time (GILT), Gambier Island Time (GIT), Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Time (GST), Gulf Standard Time (GST), Guyana Time (GYT), Hawaii–Aleutian Daylight Time (HDT), Heure Avancée d'Europe Centrale French-language name for CEST (HAEC), Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time (HST), Hong Kong Time (HKT), Heard and McDonald Islands Time (HMT), Hovd Summer Time (HOVST), Hovd Time (HOVT), Indochina Time (ICT), International Day Line West time zone (IDLW), Israel Daylight Time (IDT), Indian Ocean Time (IOT), Iran Daylight Time (IRDT), Irkutsk Time (IRKT), Iran Standard Time (IRST), Indian Standard Time (IST), Irish Standard Time (IST), Israel Standard Time (IST), Japan Standard Time (JST), Kaliningrad Time (KALT), Kyrgyzstan Time (KGT), Kosrae Time (KOST), Krasnoyarsk Time (KRAT), Korea Standard Time (KST), Lord Howe Standard Time (LHST), Lord Howe Summer Time (LHST), Line Islands Time (LINT), Magadan Time (MAGT), Marquesas Islands Time (MART), Mawson Station Time (MAWT), Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), Middle European Time Same zone as CET (MET), Middle European Summer Time Same zone as CEST (MEST), Marshall Islands Time (MHT), Macquarie Island Station Time (MIST), Marquesas Islands Time (MIT), Myanmar Standard Time (MMT), Moscow Time (MSK), Malaysia Standard Time (MST), Mountain Standard Time (MST), Mauritius Time (MUT), Maldives Time (MVT), Malaysia Time (MYT), New Caledonia Time (NCT), Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT), Norfolk Island Time (NFT), Novosibirsk Time (NOVT), Nepal Time (NPT), Newfoundland Standard Time (NST), Newfoundland Time (NT), Niue Time (NUT), New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT), New Zealand Standard Time (NZST), Omsk Time (OMST), Oral Time (ORAT), Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Peru Time (PET), Kamchatka Time (PETT), Papua New Guinea Time (PGT), Phoenix Island Time (PHOT), Philippine Time (PHT), Pakistan Standard Time (PKT), Saint Pierre and Miquelon Daylight Time (PMDT), Saint Pierre and Miquelon Standard Time (PMST), Pohnpei Standard Time (PONT), Pacific Standard Time (PST), Philippine Standard Time (PST), Paraguay Summer Time (PYST), Paraguay Time (PYT), Réunion Time (RET), Rothera Research Station Time (ROTT), Sakhalin Island Time (SAKT), Samara Time (SAMT), South African Standard Time (SAST), Solomon Islands Time (SBT), Seychelles Time (SCT), Samoa Daylight Time (SDT), Singapore Time (SGT), Sri Lanka Standard Time (SLST), and more. 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