text: what time is it in greenwich village?   greenwich village would be in new york so definitely in the eastern time zone.  on the other hand, if you mean greenwich in england then there are two answers.  local time in greenwich is 8 hours ahead of pacific time or 5 hours ahead of eastern time (about 9:42 am).  however, the universal coordinated time (which timezones are based) is actually an hour earlier.  the distinction is that greenwich is on daylight savings time now, just like the u.s. but utc does not change.  it would be 8:42 am utc.  gmt and utc are often used interchangeably, but they aren't the same thing between april and october, as you can see.  so the question is which one do you truly mean?  gmt or utc?