The Eastern Time Zone contains 17 states in the eastern part of the Contiguous United States and is shared by parts of Canada and three countries in South America. These places use Eastern Standard Time (EST) when observing standard time (autumn/winter) – which is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05) – and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) when observing daylight saving time (spring/summer) – which is 4 hours behind (UTC−04). In the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one hour gap; on the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST. Southern parts of the zone (Panama and the Caribbean) do not observe daylight saving.
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Famous quotes containing the words eastern, time and/or zone:
“Now Morn her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“O Time and Change!—with hair as gray
As was my sire’s that winter day,
How strange it seems, with so much gone
Of life and love, to still live on!
Ah, brother! only I and thou
Are left of all that circle now,—
The dear home faces whereupon
That fitful firelight paled and shone.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)