Convert EAT to SAST

SAST is 1 hour behind EAT. EAT is UTC+3 and SAST is UTC+2.

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Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 7 hours: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM EAT (9:00 AM–4:00 PM SAST). Schedule meetings inside that window.

EAT to SAST conversion table

About EAT

East Africa Time (EAT) is UTC+3. It is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia.

East Africa Time is UTC+3 and fixed. Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam all keep it. Ethiopia additionally uses a clock that counts from dawn rather than midnight for everyday purposes, six hours off the international one, so a time given locally in Addis may need converting twice rather than once.

About SAST

South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.

South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither EAT nor SAST shifts with the seasons, so this 1-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

Frequently asked questions

Other EAT conversions

• EAT to UTC
• EAT to GMT
• EAT to EST
• EAT to EDT
• EAT to CST
• EAT to CDT
• EAT to MST
• EAT to MDT
• EAT to PST
• EAT to PDT
• EAT to AKST
• EAT to HST
• EAT to BRT
• EAT to BST
• EAT to CET
• EAT to CEST

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