For example, if it’s 06:00 (UTC+8), how would I convert it? How does the +8 part works?
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UTC is technically not a timezone, but a timestandard. It is the basis used for all other timezones.
[https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html)
Due to the rotation of the earth, depending on the location you are, it might be night, day, morning, …As traditionally, noon is when the sun is at the higest position in the sky and this will not happen simultaneously for different locations on earth. Different timezones were cretated so noon is always approximately at 12:00h. (Let’s ignore summertime for a moment.)
GMT is a timezone that doesn’t have any offset with UTC, so GMT is “UTC+0”
I’m in Belgium, currently on CEST (Central European Summer Time), which is “UTC+2”.
The +/- digit, is the number of hours difference with UTC, so you need to add/subtract that number of hours.
This means if it’s 8:00 UTC, it’s 10:00 CEST.
If you are in UTC+8, it means 8:00 UTC is 16:00h your timezone. (4PM)
If you want to calculate the timedifference between different timezones, you can use the offset they have between UTC.
I’m UTC+2, your are UTC+8, we have a 6 hour time difference and you are ahead of me. 10:00h my time, is 16:00h your time.
06:00 UTC+8, is 22:00 UTC+0/GMT (previous day), or 00:00 CEST/UTC+2 (midnight)
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