EST to Santiago, Chile to GMT (2024)

FAQs

Why is Chile only 3 hours behind GMT? ›

Santiago de Chile is 70° W, corresponding to a mean solar time of UTC-4:40. Given its location, an offset of UTC-4 seems reasonable, but ultimately the answer is always the same: “Because the government decided like that”. But right now (February 2021) DST is in effect, so the offset is UTC-3.

Eastern Standard Time is 1 hour behind Santiago.

The Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 4 hours behind of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Mainland Chile's geographic position at around 70° west longitude means that the country's local time is two hours ahead of its default time zone of UTC-5 hours, making for unusually late sunrises and sunsets. The globe is divided into 24 standard time zones, each measuring 15 degrees longitude.

The daily rotation of the Earth is irregular (see ΔT) and has a slowing trend; therefore atomic clocks constitute a much more stable timebase. On 1 January 1972, GMT as the international civil time standard was superseded by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world.

Time in Chile is divided into three time zones. Most of Continental Chile uses the time offset UTC−04:00 in winter time and UTC−03:00 in summer time, while the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica region uses the time offset UTC−03:00 the whole year.

Chile is a long, narrow country in South America that is bordered by Peru in the north, Bolivia and Argentina to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Spanish is the de facto official and administrative language of Chile. It is spoken by 99.3% of the population in the form of Chilean Spanish, as well as Andean Spanish and Chilean Catalan. Spanish in Chile is also mentioned as Castellano.

Who is 3 hours behind GMT? ›

Brazil Standard Time. (3 hours behind GMT.) Note that the abbreviation BST also stands for British Summer Time.

What does GMT mean? Greenwich Mean Time is the yearly average (or 'mean') of the time each day when the Sun crosses the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

No. Never. GMT is UTC+0, whereas EST is UTC-5, so GMT is always 5 hours ahead EST (Eastern Standard Time). In the summer months, Eastern Time switches to EDT, Eastern Daylight Time, which is UTC-4.

GMT is five hours ahead of EST, or Eastern Standard Time, which is the time zone used by cities such as New York. If we're trying to convert from one time zone to another, we will need to consult a reference table to determine the difference between the two.

The Eastern Time Zone is five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-5) during the winter months (referred to as Eastern Standard Time or EST) and four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-4) during the summer months (referred to as Eastern Daylight Time or EDT).

Most of Chile's geographic location corresponds to five hours before UTC, meaning Chilean clocks were set to a time two hours later than what would be expected. That put Chile in the same time zone as Rio de Janeiro, which sits 1,800 miles to the east, on the opposite side of South America.

Argentina joined the timezone system in 1920, and considering that the greater part of the country was in GMT-4 it was adopted that timezone. Ten years later, he country adopted the daylight saving time as GMT-3, changing it almost every summer until 1969.