# What time is it?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777 "2010-11-07T08:02:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777/1 "2010-11-07T08:02:24Z")

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Let’s just say eastern for popularity sake. 3AM or 2AM?

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**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777/2 "2010-11-07T08:09:55Z")

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Umm, 3:09AM EST at the moment.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777/3 "2010-11-07T09:22:14Z")

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Oh, **Eastern** Standard Time. My bad.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777/4 "2010-11-07T11:18:00Z")

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o3:17:30 PSt

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it/559777/5 "2010-11-07T11:51:52Z")

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6:51 PM (18:51) in Thailand, 12 hours before New York IIRC.

We’d be 7:53 PM now if then-P.M. Thaksin had had his way, imposing year-around “savings time” so that impatient stock traders in Hong Kong or Singapore wouldn’t ignore Bangkok’s 1-hour later opening. (Plan was not adopted, as it required schoolchildren to go to school in the dark in time to clear the traffic jams for brokers and bankers.)