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Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
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 ).
[6] [7] At the time, local mean time was used to set clocks, meaning that every place used its own local time based on its longitude because the time was measured by locally observing the Sun. Philippine Standard Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8 (that defined the metric system ), approved on December 2, 1978, and implemented on ...
Independent of daylight saving time, solar noon in Connecticut on the March equinox is approximately 11:54 in the northeast corner and 12:02 in the southwest corner. New England, which includes Connecticut, is one of the few areas in the United States where solar noon is before noon. Connecticut legislation as recently as January 2019 has been ...
Time in Massachusetts, as in all US states, is regulated by the United States Department of Transportation. [1] Massachusetts is in the Eastern Time Zone (ET) and observes daylight saving time (DST).
Australian Eastern Standard Time or AEST (UTC+10), see Time in Australia; Eastern Standard Time or EST (UTC−5) in the Americas, officially "Eastern Time Zone" Egypt Standard Time or EGY (UTC+2) European Summer Time (varies from UTC to UTC+3), in several time zones, see Summer time in Europe
Some broadcasters that have ceased signing on and signing off in favour of 24-hour broadcasting may perform a sign-off sequence at a certain time in the night (usually between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.) as a formality to signify the end of its operating day (in the United States, the broadcast logging day ends at 12:00 midnight local time).
Since Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not observed anywhere in this zone, the time is always known as Chamorro Standard Time (ChST). The zone is two hours behind Wake Island Time Zone and 15 hours ahead of North American Eastern Time Zone. As of March 19, 2024 it is the easternmost (farthest ahead) time zone shown on the U.S. government's time ...