The difference between EST and EDT
“EST” and “EDT” is the acronyms of three letters having one difference in each both are referred to Time Zones. These time zones actually made international communication easier by helping professionals & experts to work online throughout the world as it provides better time management and its understanding makes it convenient to do international calls, team meetings, and video conferences throughout the world. These time zones are determined by the geographical conditions and location of our planet, sun and the moon.
What is EST?
EST is the easternmost time zone in the United States. It covers almost 23 states in the US and three provinces or territories in Canada.
What is EDT?
The EDT is the daylight saving time also termed as summertime of the Eastern Standard Time (EST).
See the differences between both in the following table:
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EST |
EDT
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EST
is the abbreviation of “Eastern Standard Time” |
“EDT” means “Eastern
Daylight Time.” |
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EST is used all over
the Eastern time zone. |
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. |
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. |
EDT comes into effect from 2 am of the second
Sunday of March. |
The Daylight Time strategy is actually applied to enjoy long-time sunlight in summers which in turn, helps in following the increase of daylight time working hours and productivity in return. However, some people claim, that it creates great disruption in sleep cycles. This time zone i.e. EST and EDT needs to be considered in the US as every country in the world does not change time as US does. To conclude its not wrong to say that EST & EDT time zones are identical to each other in many senses still holding menial differences so we can’t use them interchangeably.
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