In the spring of 2009, Eduventures, a higher education consulting firm, released the results of a study that illustrated that the recession had made a significant impact on the views of prospective continuing education students.
This time zone converter lets you visually and very quickly convert EST to CST and vice-versa. Simply mouse over the colored hour-tiles and glance at the hours selected by the column... and done! EST stands for Eastern Standard Time. CST is known as Central Standard Time. CST is 1 hours behind EST.
Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). During summer most (but not all) of the zone uses daylight saving time (DST), and changes to Central Daylight Time (CDT) which is five hours behind UTC.