Los Angeles time explained
Los Angeles keeps Pacific Time, three hours behind New York, and changes its clocks on the same dates as the rest of the United States. That three-hour gap is why the American working day effectively runs from mid-morning Eastern to early evening Pacific, with only a few hours where both coasts are comfortably at their desks.
Los Angeles does observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC changes twice a year. The time above already accounts for whichever is currently in force.
Reaching Los Angeles
An early Los Angeles morning is the only comfortable window for reaching Europe, whose working day is ending as California starts. The upside is Asia: a Los Angeles afternoon lands in the following Tokyo or Sydney morning.
How this page works
The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone
database that ships with your browser, using the zone
America/Los_Angeles. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset
shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a
number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this
page changes with it.
The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Los Angeles's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.