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Eastern Time Zone
Sign in to saveAlso known as EST, EDT, North American Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Standard Time, DC time, D.C. time, NY time, New York Time
time zone observing UTC−05:00 during standard time and UTC−04:00 during daylight saving time
Key facts
- Est
- UTC−05:00
- Edt
- UTC−04:00
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Shares border with
- Central Time Zone
- Image
- MUTCD-MI I2-6 (Eastern Time Zone).svg
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- short name
- HNE
- UTC timezone offset
- -4
- Commons category
- Eastern Time (U.S.)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern United States, parts of eastern Canada, some Caribbean islands and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. Most areas in the time zone observe daylight saving time and thus alternate between:
Eastern Standard Time (EST), which is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00) and observed during late autumn/winter, and
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Time Zone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.