# Product Hunt Launch Time Converter
> Convert Product Hunt's 12:01 AM Pacific Time start into your time zone, IST, UTC, and other cities.

```yaml
url: "https://makerhunt.io/tools/launch-time-converter"
markdown: "https://makerhunt.io/tools/launch-time-converter.md"
title: Product Hunt Launch Time Converter
type: page
site: MakerHunt
```

## About

Convert Product Hunt's 12:01 AM Pacific Time start into your time zone, IST, UTC, and other cities. Free DST-aware countdown and calendar file.

## What it converts

The free converter shows 12:01 AM on the US Pacific clock (America/Los_Angeles) for a date you pick, in your browser time zone and in UTC, London, Berlin, India (IST), Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, and San Francisco. It follows Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) or Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) for that date. Nothing is sent to a server.

## What Product Hunt says

Product Hunt's Getting Started guide (https://help.producthunt.com/en/articles/2305333-getting-started) says the site operates in 24-hour periods in Pacific Standard Time, with the homepage refreshing every day at midnight PST. Preparing for your Product Hunt launch (https://www.producthunt.com/launch/preparing-for-launch) gives a rule of thumb of 12:01am PST so a post gets a full 24 hours, and says the best time to launch is when you are ready. How to schedule a post (https://help.producthunt.com/en/articles/2724119-how-to-schedule-a-post) says you pick a day within 30 days.

## Worked examples

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 is PST: 12:01 AM Pacific is 8:01 AM UTC and 1:31 PM IST
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 is PDT: 12:01 AM Pacific is 7:01 AM UTC and 12:31 PM IST

## Links

- HTML version: https://makerhunt.io/tools/launch-time-converter
- AI-friendly Markdown: https://makerhunt.io/tools/launch-time-converter.md
- llms.txt index: https://makerhunt.io/llms.txt

_HTML version: https://makerhunt.io/tools/launch-time-converter_