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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 ).
Places that switched from Atlantic Time to Eastern Time in 1995 — CA +744144−0944945 America/Resolute Central - NU (Resolute) −06:00: −05:00: Places in Central Time that skipped DST in 2007 6446190 on OpenStreetMap: CA +484531−0913718 America/Atikokan EST - ON (Atikokan), NU (Coral H) −05:00: −05:00: Redirects to America/Panama
The Toronto Eastern Railway, or Toronto and Eastern Railway, is a noted "ghost railroad" in southern Ontario, Canada. It was part of William Mackenzie's ambitious plan to provide high-speed electric " interurban " service throughout the district that first appeared in 1910; however, those plans fell afoul of World War I and, later, political ...
Whitby is a town in Durham Region in Ontario, Canada. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Ajax and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Oshawa , on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region.
Port Arthur, Ontario (now part of Thunder Bay), was the first municipality in the world to enact daylight saving time, on July 1, 1908. [4] [5] (Germany later became the first country to adopt the time change, on April 30, 1916.) [6]
The shift is the amount of time added at the DST start time and subtracted at the DST end time. For example, in Canada and the United States, when DST starts, the local time changes from 02:00 to 03:00, and when DST ends, the local time changes from 02:00 to 01:00. As the time change depends on the time zone, it does not occur simultaneously in ...
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Turks and Caicos discontinued Daylight Saving Time in March 2015, at the same time moving from the Eastern Time Zone to the Atlantic Time Zone, the result being the same as having year-round Daylight Saving in the Eastern Time Zone. In 2018, the islands reintroduced daylight saving time by setting the clocks back 1 hour to Eastern Standard Time ...