# ISS time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-time/222072>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-time/222072 "2004-01-01T05:01:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-time/222072/1 "2004-01-01T05:01:40Z")

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Happy New Year to East Coasters and those “easter”.

What’s the timezone on the International Space Station?

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**Author:** ![altor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@altor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/altor)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-time/222072/2 "2004-01-01T05:08:21Z")

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[Staff report on this question.](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/muniversaltime.html)

They use UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, which is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Thus it’s 0510 there now.

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**Author:** ![altor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@altor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/altor)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iss-time/222072/3 "2004-01-01T05:10:08Z")

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Oh, and happy new year! 🙂