Central Time
America/Chicago
At a glance
- IANA
- America/Chicago
- Standard offset
- UTC−6 (CST)
- DST offset
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Observes DST?
- Yes
- Countries
- US
- Main cities
- Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas
Also known as
America/Indiana/Knox, America/Indiana/Tell_City, America/Menominee, America/North_Dakota/Beulah, America/North_Dakota/Center, America/North_Dakota/New_Salem, CST6CDT, US/Central, US/Indiana-Starke, America/Knox_IN
Developer snippets
// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Chicago' }).format(new Date());
// Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('America/Chicago'));
// Java
java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of('America/Chicago'));