IANA tz database · zone identifier

America/Creston

The IANA tz database identifier for Mountain Standard Time in Canada. Store this string — not the abbreviation, not the offset — and your timestamps stay correct forever.

UTC-07:00Abbreviation MSTNo daylight saving
Time in America/Creston☀ Daylight
16:00:17
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Offset
UTC-07:00
Abbreviation
MST
DST
No DST

Current offset

UTC-07:00

same year-round

Abbreviation

MST

used year-round

DST behaviour

None

one offset all year

Country

🇨🇦 Canada

ISO 3166: CA · view country page →

Using this identifier

The string to put in your code.

America/Creston is the identifier to use in code and config for this region. Every modern language, database, and OS resolves it through the same tz database, so the examples here behave identically everywhere.

Avoid storing MST or -07:00 — abbreviations are ambiguous and fixed offsets can't follow rule changes.

// format a date in this zone
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', {
timeZone: 'America/Creston',
dateStyle: 'full', timeStyle: 'long'
}).format(new Date());

Offset & DST behaviour

One offset,
108 years.

America/Creston has kept UTC-07:00 year-round since 2 June 1918 — no daylight saving and no offset changes on record since. It is among the most stable identifiers in the database.

Every offset this zone has kept

−07:46:04UTC-07:00 · UNCHANGED 2 June 1918 NOW

Keeping this offset since

2 June 1918

Next transition

None scheduled

no DST rules exist for this zone

Safe to assume

Local = UTC − 7h, always

…but store the identifier anyway

Technical record

The database entry, in full.

source: IANA tz database · release 2026d

IdentifierAmerica/Creston
ISO country codeCA🇨🇦 Canada
Reference coordinates49.10°N, 116.52°Wtz database reference point
Standard offsetUTC-07:00abbreviation MST
Daylight offset—no daylight saving time
tzdb release2026ddata current as of this IANA release

Where it applies

One of Canada's 23 zones.

🇨🇦
Canada

37M people, 23 time zones — this identifier covers one of them.

Country page →

Related identifiers

Nearby in the database.

Same zone group · Mountain Standard Time

other identifiers keeping MST

Same offset · UTC-07:00

other zones keeping this offset right now

Frequently asked questions

Answers specific to this identifier — generated from the database record. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].

What UTC offset is America/Creston?
America/Creston is UTC-07:00, year-round. The offset never changes because the zone does not observe daylight saving time.
Does America/Creston observe daylight saving time?
No. America/Creston stays on UTC-07:00 all year, as it has since 2 June 1918.
Which country uses America/Creston?
Canada. It is one of 23 IANA zones covering the country.
Is America/Creston the same as MST?
America/Creston is one of the IANA zones that keeps Mountain Standard Time (MST). Use America/Creston in software — MST is a human-friendly label, not a valid identifier.

Free · Developer API

This zone, as JSON.

Its live offset, abbreviation and DST status, plus its coordinates and country, from one endpoint.

GET /v1/timezones Live

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// this identifier, resolved live
GET /v1/timezones/America/Creston
{
"data": {
"iana": "America/Creston",
"observes_dst": false,
"country": { "code": "CA", "name": "Canada" },
"current": {
"utc_offset": "-07:00",
"abbreviation": "MST",
…
},
…
}
}