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It’s actually UTC 7 (at this time of year) whether someone else observes daylight time or not.
This is not just a pedantic distinct because converting time zones is confusing enough without inaccuracies.
So 10 AM Pacific is (now) 17:00 UTC. (This will be different in late fall and winter).
UTC never changes for daylight time even when Britain goes onto “summer time”.
Once someone knows 17:00 UTC they can (probably) translate to their own time zone:
Google can help.
what is 10am US Pacific time in paris
Though it might be easier to just go to the following site and put in a US west coast city (Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco) and a major city in their own country (e.g., Paris, Berlin, Tokyo)
Well, this is exactly what khardy was asking: depending if the Pacific time is in DST or not, since UTC does not change… If Pacific time wouldn’t observe DST it would be UTC -8, but because they do, the time zone is currently at UTC -7, so you could’ve just answered their question:
Yes, by “if you observer DST” I meant “you folks in Vancouver”. I don’t know Canadian/British Columbian summer time practices, nor should I need to. Apologies if “you” was too ambiguous as it could be read as “you the reader”.