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Pacific/Easter time zone

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About Pacific/Easter

Pacific/Easter is the IANA time zone for Easter Island in Chile. It currently keeps UTC−6 in winter and UTC−5 in summer.

Its principal location is Easter at 27.15° S, 109.43° W.

Rule for future years (POSIX TZ string)

<-06>6<-05>,M9.1.6/22,M4.1.6/22

The standard time is called “-06” (a numeric abbreviation) and is UTC−6. POSIX writes the offset with the opposite sign (west of Greenwich is positive), which is why the string says "6". Daylight saving time is called “-05” (a numeric abbreviation) and is UTC−5. It starts on the first Saturday of September at 22:00 and ends on the first Saturday of April at 22:00, local time. Software that has no full tzdata copy, such as many embedded devices, can use this string directly as the TZ environment variable.

Upcoming transitions

Computed from tzdata 2026f; local times are read on the clock just before each change.

History of Pacific/Easter since 1970

The record starts with local mean time (UTC−7:17), which ended on January 1, 1890. The first daylight saving time in the record is in 1968.

YearsClocksAbbreviations
1970–1981UTC−7 in winter, UTC−6 in summer—
1982UTC−6 until October 9, then UTC−5—
1983–2014UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer—
2015UTC−5 all year—
2016 onwardUTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer—

Before 1970

4 offset changes before 1970 in the record:

Changes of the winter (standard) offset: Saturday, October 10, 1981, UTC−7 → UTC−6.

tzdata commits to accuracy from 1970 for every zone (zone1970.tab); earlier entries are historical research and may be incomplete.

Aliases and zones with the same clock

These older or country-specific IDs are links to Pacific/Easter in tzdata. Their pages redirect here: Chile/EasterIsland.

Convert Easter time

Tip: Alt+↑/↓ steps the time by 15 minutes (Shift: one hour). The link keeps the date, time and direction.

Using Pacific/Easter in code

Every major platform reads the same IANA ID. Store instants in UTC and convert with the ID at display time; never store a fixed offset for a place that has daylight saving time.

// JavaScript
new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', { timeZone: 'Pacific/Easter' })

# Python 3.9+
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Pacific/Easter'))

// Java
java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of("Pacific/Easter"))

// Go
loc, _ := time.LoadLocation("Pacific/Easter")
time.Now().In(loc)

-- PostgreSQL
SELECT now() AT TIME ZONE 'Pacific/Easter';

# Shell
TZ='Pacific/Easter' date

Platforms ship their own copy of tzdata and update it on their own schedule. After a rule change, outputs can differ until the platform updates; this page uses tzdata 2026f.

Questions

What is the UTC offset of Pacific/Easter?
UTC−6 in winter and UTC−5 in summer (daylight saving time from the first Saturday of September at 10:00 PM to the first Saturday of April at 10:00 PM).
Does Pacific/Easter observe daylight saving time?
Yes: clocks move one hour forward on the first Saturday of September at 10:00 PM and back on the first Saturday of April at 10:00 PM.
Is Chile/EasterIsland the same as Pacific/Easter?
Yes. Chile/EasterIsland is a link (alias) to Pacific/Easter in tzdata and gives the same time since 1970. It remains a valid ID.
Which countries use Pacific/Easter?
Chile, according to zone1970.tab in tzdata.

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