It is 8:52 pm in Australia/Eucla
Australia/Eucla is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Eucla in Australia. It is running at UTC+8:45 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Australia/Eucla right now
8:52 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 20:52. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 8 hours and 45 minutes ahead of UTC, one of the few quarter-hour offsets in the database. Converting into this zone changes the minutes as well as the hour, which is where naive conversion code usually breaks.
No other zone in this list reads UTC+8:45 at this instant, which makes Australia/Eucla the only way to name this clock right now.
The UTC offset of Australia/Eucla
An offset of UTC+8:45 names the meridian 131.3 degrees east. Canberra, Australia actually sits at 149.13 degrees east, which is 17.9 degrees east of it, so the sun there runs about 72 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 never moves its clocks, UTC+8:45 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Australia/Eucla
Australia/Eucla does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+8:45 in January and reads UTC+8:45 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It did move them once: the sampling below shows a summer offset as late as 2009, and the practice has since been dropped.
The database holds no clock change for Australia/Eucla in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Australia/Eucla 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 9 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+8:45, UTC+9:45. Its current behaviour has held since 2010. 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.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 1974 | UTC+8:45 | UTC+8:45 | one offset all year |
| 1975 | UTC+9:45 | UTC+8:45 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1976 to 1983 | UTC+8:45 | UTC+8:45 | one offset all year |
| 1984 | UTC+9:45 | UTC+8:45 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1985 to 1991 | UTC+8:45 | UTC+8:45 | one offset all year |
| 1992 | UTC+9:45 | UTC+8:45 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 1993 to 2006 | UTC+8:45 | UTC+8:45 | one offset all year |
| 2007 to 2009 | UTC+9:45 | UTC+8:45 | clocks moved, 1 hour apart |
| 2010 to 2026 | UTC+8:45 | UTC+8:45 | one offset all year |
The last summer in which Australia/Eucla read a different offset from its own January was 2009. Software that still carries a hand-written summer rule for this zone has been wrong every year since.
Countries and regions that use Australia/Eucla
One country uses Australia/Eucla: Australia, which keeps 12 zones in total and has a population of about 26,640,000.
Cities in the Australia/Eucla time zone
This site does not yet carry a city page inside Australia/Eucla, 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/Eucla
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 4:33 am and sets at 4:48 pm, giving 12 hours 15 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 10:40 am, which is 80 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 17.9 degrees east of the UTC+8:45 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.5 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it.
Convert Australia/Eucla to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Australia/Eucla is at UTC+8:45 right now, the same reading as UTC, 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/Eucla
- What time is it in Australia/Eucla right now?
- 8:52 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/Eucla?
- UTC+8:45 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Australia/Eucla observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+8:45 all year, and has done since 2010.
- What is the abbreviation for Australia/Eucla?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+8:45. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Australia/Eucla?
- Australia.
- Why store Australia/Eucla instead of UTC+8:45?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 0 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+8:45 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Australia/Euclakeeps working through every future rule change.