Time difference between Toronto and Lima

Lima is 1 hour behind Toronto

Toronto, Canada is UTC−5 · Lima, Peru 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 Toronto goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November and Lima does not change its clocks.

Lima stays put all year while Toronto moves, so a meeting fixed in Lima's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at Toronto's end.

About Toronto and Lima

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.

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.

When they can both be at their desks

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

Toronto to Lima, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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