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Eastern Time
What time zone
is Eastern Time Zone in?
Eastern Time Zone is the Eastern Time Zone of the United
States of America (USA) and Canada. Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 5 hours behind
Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT-5).
When does Eastern Time change to Daylight Saving Time?
In most states in the USA and in most provinces in Canada,
Daylight-Saving
Time (DST) is observed. During DST the
time is shifted forward by 1 hour to EDT; which is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-4).
After the Summer months Eastern Time is shifted
back by 1 hour to US Eastern Standard Time (EST) or (GMT-5).
The schedule for the states of the United States that adopt
daylight saving time are:
2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March
to
2 a.m. on the First Sunday of
November.
