EDT to WIB: EDT is 11 hours behind WIB
Eastern Time is 11 hours behind Western Indonesia Time right now. It is 6:59 pm EDT in Eastern and 5:59 am WIB in Jakarta, which is already the next day there.
Convert a specific time from EDT to WIB
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between EDT and WIB?
Western Indonesia Time is 11 hours ahead of Eastern Time. To go from EDT to WIB you add 11 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 11 hours to 12 hours, because Eastern moves its clocks and Jakarta does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
EDT to WIB conversion table
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Eastern, with the matching reading in Jakarta. 11 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Jakarta, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| EDT | EDT 24h | WIB | WIB 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between EDT and WIB?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Eastern and Jakarta are 11 hours apart, which is too far for an overlap, so somebody has to take a call outside their own working day. The least painful options are below, ranked by how close both sides sit to the middle of the afternoon.
| EDT | WIB | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 am | 6:00 pm | neither side | early morning in Eastern, evening in Jakarta |
| 8:00 am | 7:00 pm | neither side | mid morning in Eastern, evening in Jakarta |
Does daylight saving change EDT to WIB?
Eastern Time is currently on EDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-4 to UTC-5.
Western Indonesia Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+7 offset holds every day of the year.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 11 hours and for the rest it is 12 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is EDT ahead of or behind WIB?
EDT is behind WIB by 11 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Eastern, it is 11:00 pm in Jakarta. One wrinkle worth knowing: EST and EDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Eastern Time reads EST in winter and EDT in summer. When somebody types "est to wib" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves EST to America/New_York and WIB to Asia/Jakarta and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Eastern Time covers New York, Toronto, Atlanta and Miami. Western Indonesia Time covers Jakarta, Bandung and Medan, the most populous of the three Indonesian zones. The identifiers behind them are America/New_York and Asia/Jakarta, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is EDT in WIB?
- EDT is 11 hours behind WIB. 9:00 am EDT is 8:00 pm WIB.
- How many hours ahead is WIB of EDT?
- WIB is 11 hours ahead of EDT. That varies across the year, between 11 hours and 12 hours.
- What time is it in Jakarta right now?
- 5:59 am WIB on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
- When can Eastern and Jakarta meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 7:00 am EDT, which is 6:00 pm WIB.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so EDT and WIB are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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