Also known as: EDST – Eastern Daylight Savings Time, NAEDT – North American Eastern Daylight Time
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This time zone is a Daylight Saving Time time zone and is used in: North America, Caribbean.
This time zone is often called Eastern Time.
Winter Time & DST
This time zone is a daylight saving/summer time zone, in the winter some places will switch to the corresponding standard time zone: EST (Eastern Standard Time).
Where and When is EDT Observed?
North America
U.S. states using EDT in the summer and EST in the winter:
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida - Southern/Eastern parts
- Georgia
- Indiana - all except for these north-western counties near Chicago (Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, Jasper, Starke) and these south-western counties in Indiana near Evansville
- Kentucky - eastern parts
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan - most except these western counties
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee - eastern counties
- Vermont
- Virginia
- West Virginia
Canadian provinces/territories using EDT in the summer and EST in the winter:
Caribbean
Other Time Zones in UTC -4
Some time zones exist that have the same offset as EDT, but can be found under a different name: