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East Standard Time Zone - EST
The Eastern Standard Time is five hrs behind the Coordinated Universal Time Standard, expressed as an off-set of 5:00 a. m. below CET. This means that in order to find the standard time in the area, you must deduct five consecutive hour from the Coordinated World Time. Areas that observe the time zones are mainly located in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
It may be referred to as one of these extra time zones, according to where the time zones are referred to: Many of the areas in which this time zones are used use Eastern Standard Time in the autumn to winters and Eastern Daylight Time or EDT in the daylight savings time (spring to summer).
These areas are contained in the time zone:
The EST and EDT are different time zones.
DST is a phenomena that persists throughout the entire summers, and if you don't keep this in mind, you will one of these days mess up something related to the time area. Well, keep in mind: Summers are daytime (EDT if you are on the eastern coast) and winters are standard time (EST). In other parts of the continents as well, the following applies: PST is PST in cold weather, PDT in hot weather.
MST and MDT are the times of the mountains, CST and CDT are the times of the headquarters. Please do not plan to meet a foreign co-worker this summers by saying that you are free at this time. You are not, and if they put this Eastern Standard Time in a time zoning computer, they can end up validating the session for a time that is not what you intended.
Luckily, many time zoning utilities are intelligent enough to know when it is the default time and when it is the time of day, and will fix your bug (like this one). If you don't know the distinction, you're prone to failure if you do: You have changed your position from standard to normal light time (or the other way around), but the other person's has not.
As an example, the USA has summer time from 11 March to 4 November this year, while the United Kingdom has summer time from 25 March to 28 October. In these interim periods, you must be especially cautious to convert properly. You' re planning something for the time being. Maybe it's time of night now, but it will be the default time when the set date comes.
It' s better to recheck that everyone who comes from a different time region finds the right time in their calender. You' re running a programme that doesn't take your lack of knowledge into consideration. When you select "EST" from a pull-down list, when you schedule a memory or an automatic incident, but your real time is EDT, the computer does its thing an hours later.
When you really want to stay unsuspecting, it's okay to say "ET" or "East Time" (also for CT, MT and PT) and then you're just inaccurate, not inaccurate. "America/New York" and "America/Los Angeles" are choices in each time zones menus. However, if you take the time to describe your three-digit time code, make sure you know what is what.