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Time zones are often represented by alphabetic abbreviations such as "EST", "WST", ... Australian Eastern Standard Time: UTC+10:00: AET (AEST/AEDT) Australian Eastern ...
East Tennessee, except Bledsoe, Cumberland, and Marion Counties: UTC−05:00 EST Eastern Standard Time UTC−06:00 CT Most of state: UTC−06:00 CST Central Standard Time Texas: UTC−06:00 CT Yes Most of state: UTC−06:00 CST Central Standard Time UTC−07:00 MT El Paso and Hudspeth counties: UTC−07:00 MST Mountain Standard Time U.S. Minor ...
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. Eastern Standard Time ( EST ) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00 ).
UTC−05:00 – Eastern Time zone: roughly a triangle covering all the states from the Great Lakes down to Florida and east to the Atlantic coast UTC−04:00 – Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands UTC+10:00 – Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands UTC+12:00 (WAKT) – Wake Island: Time in the United States: Antarctica: 10
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
All six of the New England states in the northeastern U.S., currently in the Eastern Time Zone (with daylight saving time), have considered legislation to shift to UTC−04:00, equivalent to Atlantic Standard Time (with no observance of daylight saving time) or Eastern Daylight Time.
[1] [2] [3] In 1915, Detroit changed to Eastern time to be on the same time zone as New York, [4] followed by most of the rest of the state in 1931. [ 5 ] In 1967, when the Uniform Time Act came into effect, the Upper Peninsula went under year-round CST, with no daylight saving time . [ 6 ]
The numeric zone description or "plus and minus system" indicates the correction which must be applied to the time as expressed in order to convert to UTC. For example, the zone description for the Romeo time zone is +5. Therefore, adding 5 hours to 0600R produces the time in UTC, 1100Z. [1]