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.
Time zone offset: UTC - 6 hours. CST is 6 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Note that most places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using CDT instead in the summer. See below for details.