Eastern Standard Time
The Eastern Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
In the United States, the following states are part of the Eastern Standard Time Zone:
Additionally, the eastern half of Kentucky, the eastern quarter of Tennessee, the majority of Florida, and all of Michigan except Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson and Menominee counties are part of the Eastern Standard Time Zone. The parts of these states not in the Eastern Standard Time Zone are in the Central Standard Time Zone.
Most of Indiana (all except the Gary, Indiana and Evansville, Indiana metro areas) is part of the Eastern Standard Time Zone. However, most of that portion of the state does not observe Daylight Savings Time (DST). Areas of the state in close proximity to the metro areas of Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky do observe DST.
Other parts of the world that keep time by subtracting five hours from UTC include Cuba, the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, the Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Jamaica, Haiti, and Panama.
Major metropolitan areas in the Eastern Time Zone include those of:
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Barranquilla, Colombia
- Belize City, Belize
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Detroit, Michigan
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Havana, Cuba
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Kingston, Jamaica
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Lima, Peru
- Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Medellín, Colombia
- Miami, Florida
- Montreal, Quebec
- Nassau, Bahamas
- New York, New York
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Punta Arenas, Costa Rica
- Quebec, Quebec
- Quito, Ecuador
- San José, Costa Rica
- Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Toronto, Ontario
- Washington, DC
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