It is 5:46 am in America/Resolute

America/Resolute is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Resolute in Canada. It is running at UTC-5 right now, abbreviated CDT, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone is on its summer offset at the moment.

What time is it in America/Resolute right now

5:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 05:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 5 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

22 other zones read UTC-5 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-5 instead of America/Resolute throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of America/Resolute

An offset of UTC-5 names the meridian 75.0 degrees west, and Ottawa, Canada sits at 75.70 degrees west. Those are within 3 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC-5 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC-6 for the winter part of the year and UTC-5 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in America/Resolute

America/Resolute does observe daylight saving. The next change is on November 1, 2026: at 1:00 am local the clocks go back, and UTC-5 becomes UTC-6. That hour is repeated, so every reading inside it happens twice, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of America/Resolute has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 6 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC-6, UTC-5. Its current behaviour has held since 2008. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1972, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use America/Resolute

One country uses America/Resolute: Canada, which keeps 23 zones in total and has a population of about 40,100,000.

Cities in the America/Resolute time zone

This site does not yet carry a city page inside America/Resolute, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Ottawa, Canada. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.

The sun against the clock in America/Resolute

Worked out for Ottawa, Canada, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 45.42 degrees north, 75.70 degrees west. The sun rises at 5:54 am and sets at 5:54 pm, giving 12 hours 1 minute of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:54 am, which is 6 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Ottawa, Canada sitting 0.7 degrees west of the UTC-5 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving currently in force.

Convert America/Resolute to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. America/Resolute is at UTC-5 right now, the same reading as CST, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about America/Resolute

What time is it in America/Resolute right now?

5:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of America/Resolute?

UTC-5 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC-6 in winter and UTC-5 in summer.

Does America/Resolute observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is November 1, 2026, when the clocks go back.

What is the abbreviation for America/Resolute?

CDT at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use America/Resolute?

Canada.

Why store America/Resolute instead of UTC-5?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 22 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-5 cannot tell them apart; a record storing America/Resolute keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in the Americas

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