Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Current time
The current time is Wednesday, Dec 25, 2024, 01:17:31 .
Offset from UTC: -0400
Eastern Daylight Time is 4 hours earlier than UTC, which is the international baseline that other time zones are compared to (also known as GMT).
In email headers and other technical contexts, this time zone is often expressed as -0400.
Daylight Savings
Eastern Daylight Time is a Daylight Savings time zone. It is used during the warmer part of the year, and only in places that observe Daylight Savings Time.
Similar time zones
The following time zones are equivalent to Eastern Daylight Time. Note that they may not share the same observance of (or schedule for) Daylight Savings Time.
- Amazon Time (AMT)
- Atlantic Standard Time (AST)
- Bolivia Time (BOT)
- Chile Standard Time (CLT)
- Cuba Daylight Time (CDT)
- Falkland Islands Time (FKT)
- Guyana Time (GYT)
- Paraguay Time (PYT)
Where is Eastern Daylight Time used?
* During Daylight Savings Time