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America/Indiana/Knox

America/Indiana/Knox is the IANA time zone for Central – IN (Starke) in the United States.

UTC−05:00

Tue, Sep 29 UTC−5 CDT

Offsets and daylight saving time

Standard offset
UTC−06:00
Daylight offset
UTC−05:00
Rule
Daylight saving time from the second Sunday in March at 02:00 to the first Sunday in November at 02:00 (local time).

Next clock changes

  • Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 02:00: back to UTC−6 (CDT → CST)
  • Sunday, March 14, 2027 at 02:00: forward to UTC−5 (CST → CDT)

Names

Generic name
Central Time
Abbreviation
CST / CDT
Standard / daylight
Central Standard Time / Central Daylight Time
Aliases
America/Knox_IN and US/Indiana-Starke (old ids that resolve to America/Indiana/Knox)

Use it in code

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Indiana/Knox' })

# Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
ZoneInfo('America/Indiana/Knox')

-- PostgreSQL
SELECT now() AT TIME ZONE 'America/Indiana/Knox';

Offset history since 1970

  • 1970–1991: UTC−6 and UTC−5 each year
  • 1992–2005: UTC−5
  • 2006–2026: UTC−6 and UTC−5 each year

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