It is 9:38 pm in Australia/Broken_Hill

Australia/Broken_Hill is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Broken Hill in Australia. It is running at UTC+9:30 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in Australia/Broken_Hill right now

9:38 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 21:38. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC. Half hour offsets catch out code that stores a zone as an integer number of hours, and they are the reason a UTC timestamp converted here lands on :30 or :00 depending on where it started.

2 other zones read UTC+9:30 at this instant: Australia/Adelaide, Australia/Darwin. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.

The UTC offset of Australia/Broken_Hill

An offset of UTC+9:30 names the meridian 142.5 degrees east. Canberra, Australia actually sits at 149.13 degrees east, which is 6.6 degrees east of it, so the sun there runs about 27 minutes ahead of the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC+9:30 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+9:30 for the winter part of the year and UTC+10:30 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 Australia/Broken_Hill

Australia/Broken_Hill does observe daylight saving. The next change is on October 4, 2026: at 1:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC+9:30 becomes UTC+10:30. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, 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 Australia/Broken_Hill 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 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+9:30, UTC+10:30. Its current behaviour has held since 1972. 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 Australia/Broken_Hill

One country uses Australia/Broken_Hill: Australia, which keeps 12 zones in total and has a population of about 26,640,000.

Cities in the Australia/Broken_Hill time zone

This site does not yet carry a city page inside Australia/Broken_Hill, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Canberra, Australia. 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 Australia/Broken_Hill

Worked out for Canberra, Australia, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 35.28 degrees south, 149.13 degrees east. The sun rises at 5:18 am and sets at 5:33 pm, giving 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:25 am, which is 35 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Canberra, Australia sitting 6.6 degrees east of the UTC+9:30 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.5 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer.

Convert Australia/Broken_Hill to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Australia/Broken_Hill is at UTC+9:30 right now, the same reading as ACST, 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 Australia/Broken_Hill

What time is it in Australia/Broken_Hill right now?

9:38 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Australia/Broken_Hill?

UTC+9:30 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+9:30 in winter and UTC+10:30 in summer.

Does Australia/Broken_Hill observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is October 4, 2026, when the clocks go forward.

What is the abbreviation for Australia/Broken_Hill?

There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+9:30. That is what every other clock shows for it too.

Which countries use Australia/Broken_Hill?

Australia.

Why store Australia/Broken_Hill instead of UTC+9:30?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 2 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+9:30 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Australia/Broken_Hill keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in Australia

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