Eastern Time Zone
For the Eastern Time Zone of Australia, see Time in Australia. "Eastern Daylight Time" and "Eastern Daylight Savings Time" redirect here. For the Eastern Daylight Time Zone of Australia, see Daylight saving time in Australia. Eastern Time Zone Eastern Time Zone UTC offset EST UTC−05:00 EDT UTC−04:00 Current time ( Refresh the clock ) 4:49 AM, July 4, 2018 EDT [refresh] Observance of DST DST is observed in parts of this time zone. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET ) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. Places that use Eastern Standard Time ( EST ) when observing standard time (autumn/winter) are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Eastern Daylight Time ( EDT ), when observing daylight saving time DST (spring/summer) is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). In t...