What is ART in ACST?
Australian Central Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead
Convert a time
ACDT — Australian Central Time
8:30 pm
ACDT, Fri
- Time in Buenos Aires
- 7:00:51 AM
- Time in Adelaide
- 8:30:51 PM
- Difference
- +13:30 h
- Next clock change
- April 4, 2027
When the difference changes
Argentina Time and Australian Central Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – April 3, 2027Australian Central Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Central Time is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Central Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Argentina Time
Argentina Time stays on ART all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Australian Central Time
Clocks go back one hour — 3:00 am becomes 2:00 am local time, and the zone is on ACST after that.
ART to ACST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, November 13, 2026, converted from Argentina Time to Australian Central Time. 13 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Adelaide, which is marked.
- 12:00 am ART
- 1:30 pm ACDT
- 1:00 am ART
- 2:30 pm ACDT
- 2:00 am ART
- 3:30 pm ACDT
- 3:00 am ART
- 4:30 pm ACDT
- 4:00 am ART
- 5:30 pm ACDT
- 5:00 am ART
- 6:30 pm ACDT
- 6:00 am ART
- 7:30 pm ACDT
- 7:00 am ART
- 8:30 pm ACDT
- 8:00 am ART
- 9:30 pm ACDT
- 9:00 am ART
- 10:30 pm ACDT
- 10:00 am ART
- 11:30 pm ACDT
- 11:00 am ART
- 12:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 12:00 pm ART
- 1:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 1:00 pm ART
- 2:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 2:00 pm ART
- 3:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 3:00 pm ART
- 4:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 4:00 pm ART
- 5:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 5:00 pm ART
- 6:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 6:00 pm ART
- 7:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 7:00 pm ART
- 8:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 8:00 pm ART
- 9:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 9:00 pm ART
- 10:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 10:00 pm ART
- 11:30 am ACDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm ART
- 12:30 pm ACDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Buenos Aires and one in Adelaide — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Buenos Aires is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in Adelaide.
Australian Central Time (ACDT) is used in South Australia and the Northern Territory, on a half-hour offset from the east coast
Other conversions
- ACST to ART
- ART to UTC
- ART to GMT
- ART to EST
- ART to CST
- ART to MST
- ART to PST
- ART to AKST
- ART to HST
- ART to BST
- ART to CET
- ART to IST
- ART to CST (China)
- ART to JST
- ART to AEST
- ART to AST
- ART to Mexico City
- ART to BRT
- ART to EET
- ART to WET
- ART to MSK
- ART to TRT
- ART to SAST
- ART to WAT
- ART to EAT
- ART to GST
- ART to PKT
- ART to ICT
- ART to WIB
- ART to SGT
- ART to HKT
- ART to KST
- ART to PHT
- ART to AWST
- ART to NZST
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