Convert SAST to HKT

HKT is 6 hours ahead of SAST. SAST is UTC+2 and HKT is UTC+8.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 2 hours: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM SAST (3:00 PM–5:00 PM HKT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

SAST to HKT conversion table

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.

About HKT

Hong Kong Time (HKT) is UTC+8. It is used in Hong Kong, and matching mainland China and Taiwan.

Hong Kong Time is UTC+8 and has had no daylight saving since 1979. It shares its offset with mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Manila and Perth, which makes UTC+8 the most economically dense single offset in the world — roughly a fifth of the planet's population runs on it, and a meeting scheduled in it reaches an unusual amount of Asia at once.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither SAST nor HKT shifts with the seasons, so this 6-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 SAST conversions

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

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