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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“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is a truer truth, it is better and fairer news, and no time will ever shame it, or prove it false.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There was a continuous movement now, from Zone Five to Zone Four. And from Zone Four to Zone Three, and from us, up the pass. There was a lightness, a freshness, and an enquiry and a remaking and an inspiration where there had been only stagnation. And closed frontiers. For this is how we all see it now.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)