Time difference between Lima and Toronto

Toronto is 1 hour ahead of Lima

Lima, Peru is UTC−5 · Toronto, Canada is UTC−5 — on standard time

The gap is not the same all year

Every converter gives one number for this pair. That number is right for most of the year and wrong for part of it, because Lima does not change its clocks and Toronto goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.

Lima stays put all year while Toronto moves, so the gap changes twice a year from Toronto's side alone. A recurring meeting set in Lima's calendar will drift by an hour without anyone touching it.

About Lima and Toronto

Peru is UTC−5 all year with no daylight saving, so it matches New York in winter and falls an hour behind it in summer. It shares the offset with Colombia and Ecuador, giving a large stretch of South America one fixed clock.

Toronto keeps the same clock as New York and changes on the same dates, so the two cities are never apart. Canada follows the US daylight-saving schedule rather than the European one, which is why Toronto and London drift for the same weeks New York and London do.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 7 hours — 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Lima, the same moment as 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Toronto.

Lima to Toronto, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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