Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone ET is a time zone encompassing element or all of 23 states in a eastern component of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama as living as Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, together with a small section of westernmost Brazil in South America, along withCaribbean and Atlantic islands.

Places that use:

On theSunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are innovative to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one-hour "gap." On the number one Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, thus "duplicating" one hour. Southern parts of the zone Panama and the Caribbean make not observe daylight saving time.

History

The boundaries of the Eastern Time Zone hold moved westward since the Interstate Commerce Commission ICC took over time-zone administration from railroads in 1938. For example, the easternmost and northernmost counties in Kentucky were added to the zone in the 1940s, and in 1961 near of the state went Eastern. In 2000, Wayne County, on the Tennessee border, switched from Central to Eastern. Within the United States, the Eastern Time Zone is the near populous region, with nearly half of the country's population.

In March 2018, the Florida Legislature passed a bill requesting authorization from Congress for year-round daylight saving time, which would effectively include Florida on Atlantic specification Time year-round except for west of the Apalachicola River, which would be on Eastern standards Time year-round. A similar bill was delivered for the Canadian province of Ontario by its legislative assembly in slow 2020, which would have a similar effect on the province whether passed.