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South American time zones:

BRST – Brasilia Summer Time

Current time in Sao Paulo

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 1:44:05 PM BRST

Sao Paulo will stay on BRST until Midnight between Saturday, February 25, 2012 and Sunday, February 26, 2012
when clocks are moved to Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 23:00:00 BRT

Find local time and time zone for a location

We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.

Time zone offset: UTC - 2 hours

BRST is 2 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that BRST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter BRT is used instead

Time zone abbreviation: BRST

Full name is Brasilia Summer Time

Email time zone indicator: -0200

An email sent from someone in the BRST time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0200" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0200" does not have to be in BRST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below
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Where and when is BRST observed?

Areas using BRST in the summer and BRT during the winter

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in BRST

Other time zones in South America

Go directly through the links below, or see the South America time zone list

Time zones in other regions

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