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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