EST
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EDT
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EST
is the abbreviation of “Eastern Standard Time”
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“EDT” means “Eastern
Daylight Time.”
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EST is used all over
the Eastern time zone.
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EDT is not used in the Southern parts of the time zone.
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All locations of
North America live in accord with EST in fall and in winter since
2007.
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EDT is the time usually used in some parts of
North America
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The
Eastern Standard Time is the time zone used during fall and winter season. It
starts in November lasts to the mid of March.
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On the other hand
after Mid March clocks cycles back to Eastern Daylight Time which starts from
second half of March to the beginning of November. So, these time schedule
& strategy is applied with respective to the seasons of summer and
winter.
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The
Eastern Standard Time is 5 hours behind the UTC however the Eastern Daylight
Time is only 4 hours behind the UTC.
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EDT is an hour
earlier to EST. So, EDT can be written as UTC-4 while EST can be written as
UTC-5.
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EST comes into effect from 2 am of the first Sunday of
November.
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EDT comes into effect from 2 am of the second
Sunday of March.
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