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The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. Its time offset is UTC-5 during standard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time. The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 75th degree meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory.

In the United States and Canada, this time zone is generally called Eastern Time (ET). Specifically, it is Eastern Standard Time (EST) when observing standard time (Winter), and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) when observing daylight saving time (Summer). The 1966 Uniform Time Act in the USA meant that EDT was instituted on the last Sunday in April, starting in 1966, throughout most of the USA. ^[1] EST would be re-instituted on the last Sunday in October. The act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of EDT as of 1987.^[1] In some areas, starting in 2007, the local time changes at 02:00 EST to 03:00 EDT on the second Sunday in March and returns at 02:00 EDT to 01:00 EST on the first Sunday in November^[1]. In Canada the time changes as the US does.

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Contents 1 Usage 1.1 North America 1.1.1 Canada 1.1.2 United States 1.1.3 Other countries 1.2 South America 2 Major Metropolitan Areas 3 See also 4 Sources 5 References

In Canada, the following provinces and territories are part of the Eastern Time Zone:

• Ontario (excluding areas west of Thunder Bay but including Atikokan)
• Quebec (excluding far eastern Côte-Nord and the Magdalen Is.)
• East-central Nunavut (including part of Melville Pen. and most of Ellesmere and Baffin Is., including Iqaluit; Southampton Island does not observe DST)

In the United States, the following states are part of the Eastern Time Zone in their entirety:

Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maine Maryland Massachusetts

New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania

Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia West Virginia

The exact specification for the location of time zones and the dividing line between zones is set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 CFR 71.^[3]

Parts of several other states use Eastern Time as well:

• nearly all of Florida except for the part of the panhandle west of the Apalachicola River. Approaching the Gulf of Mexico, the line jumps west to the Bay/Gulf county line.
• 80 of Indiana's 92 Counties (six in the Evansville metropolitan area and six in the Gary metropolitan area observe Central Time)
• all of Kentucky from the Louisville metropolitan area eastward
• all of Michigan except the four Upper Peninsula counties that border Wisconsin (Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, Menominee)
• the eastern third of Tennessee, almost but not precisely coterminous with the region legally designated as East Tennessee
• some towns in eastern Alabama, including Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley, observe Eastern Time, although they are officially in the Central Time Zone. This is primarily because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia media market.^[4]

The countries that use Eastern Time Zone include:

• Panama
• Jamaica
• Haiti
• Cuba
• the Bahamas
• Not all Caribbean countries observe Daylight saving time. Most Eastern Caribbean states are in the UTC-4 timezone, which is known in North America as the Atlantic Time Zone and is the equivalent of EDT and one hour ahead of EST.
• Mexico: the eastern state of Quintana Roo formerly followed EST for a brief period in the 1990s

In South America this time zone is observed in:

• Colombia
• Ecuador (except Galápagos)
• Peru
• Parts of Brazil:
  • the state of Acre
  • Amazonas - the southwestern region of the state.

Albany, New York Annapolis, Maryland Atlanta, Georgia Augusta, Maine Baltimore, Maryland Bangor, Maine Barrie, Ontario Bogotá, Colombia Boston, Massachusetts Buffalo, New York Burlington, Vermont Cali, Colombia Charleston, South Carolina Charleston, West Virginia Charlotte, North Carolina Chattanooga, Tennessee Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Columbia, South Carolina Columbus, Ohio Detroit, Michigan Erie, Pennsylvania Fort Wayne, Indiana Greater Sudbury, Ontario Greenville, South Carolina Greensboro, North Carolina Guayaquil, Ecuador

Guelph, Ontario Hamilton, Ontario Hampton Roads, Virginia Havana, Cuba Hartford, Connecticut Indianapolis, Indiana Iqaluit, Nunavut Jacksonville, Florida Key West, Florida Kingston, Jamaica Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario Knoxville, Tennessee Lexington, Kentucky Lima, Peru London, Ontario Louisville, Kentucky Manchester, New Hampshire Medellín, Colombia Miami, Florida Montreal, Quebec Nassau, Bahamas Newark, New Jersey Norfolk, Virginia New Haven, Connecticut New York, New York Orlando, Florida Ottawa, Ontario

Oshawa, Ontario Panama City, Panama Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Port-au-Prince, Haiti Portland, Maine Providence, Rhode Island Quebec, Quebec Quito, Ecuador Raleigh, North Carolina Richmond, Virginia Rio Branco, Brazil Rochester, New York Santiago de Cali, Colombia Springfield, Massachusetts Syracuse, New York Tampa, Florida Thunder Bay, Ontario Toledo, Ohio Toronto, Ontario Trenton, New Jersey Washington, D.C. Wilmington, Delaware Windsor, Ontario Winston-Salem, North Carolina Worcester, Massachusetts

• Time zone
• Time in Indiana
• Atlantic Standard Time Zone
• Newfoundland Standard Time Zone
• Time in the United States
• Time in Canada
• Time in Brazil
• Time in Mexico

• The official U.S. time for the Eastern Time Zone
• World time zone map
• U.S. time zone map
• History of U.S. time zones and UTC conversion
• Canada time zone map
• Time zones for major world cities
• Official U.S. time for the Eastern Time Zone
• Official times across Canada
• Federal Regulations defining time zones

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Time Zone	UTC-10	UTC-9	UTC-8	UTC-7	UTC-6	UTC-5	UTC-4	UTC-3:30	UTC-3	UTC-2:30	UTC-2
Name	Hawaii-Aleutian Standard	Alaska Standard	Pacific Standard	Mountain Standard	Central Standard	Eastern Standard	Atlantic Standard	Newfoundland Standard	Saint Pierre and Miquelon Standard	Newfoundland Daylight	Saint Pierre and Miquelon Daylight
		Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight	Alaska Daylight	Pacific Daylight	Mountain Daylight	Central Daylight	Eastern Daylight		Atlantic Daylight