What is Eastern Time Zone?
{{for|the Eastern Time Zone of Australia|Time in Australia}}{{Redirect2|Eastern Daylight Time|Eastern Daylight Savings Time|the Eastern Daylight Time Zone of Australia|Daylight saving time in Australia}} '''Eastern Time Zone''' ('''ET''') is the [[time zone]] for the eastern part of [[the Americas]] including the [[United States]], [[Canada]] and parts of [[South America]] and the [[Caribbean]]. ET is five hours behind [[UTC]] in winter, which is called Eastern Standard Time (EST). It is four hours behind UTC during summer [[Daylight saving time]], when it is called Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The largest city in the Eastern Time Zone is [[New York City|New York]], the largest city in the United States. The [[New York metropolitan area]] is the largest in the zone. ==Usage== ===North America=== ====Canada==== In [[Canada]], the following [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provinces and territories]] are part of the Eastern Time Zone: * [[Ontario]] (except areas west of [[Thunder Bay, Ontario|Thunder Bay]] but including [[Atikokan, Ontario|Atikokan]]) * [[Quebec]] (except far eastern [[Côte-Nord]] and the [[Magdalen Islands|Magdalen Is.]]) * East-central [[Nunavut]] (including part of [[Melville Peninsula|Melville Pen.]] and most of [[Ellesmere Island|Ellesmere]] and [[Baffin Island|Baffin]] Is., including [[Iqaluit]]; [[Southampton Island]] does not observe Daylight saving time) ====United States==== In the [[United States]], the following states are part of the Eastern Time Zone: {{columns-list| * [[Connecticut]] * [[Delaware]] * [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] * [[Maine]] * [[Maryland]] * [[Massachusetts]] * [[Michigan]] * [[New Hampshire]] * [[New Jersey]] * [[New York (state)|New York]] * [[North Carolina]] * [[Ohio]] * [[Pennsylvania]] * [[Rhode Island]] * [[South Carolina]] * [[Vermont]] * [[Virginia]] * [[West Virginia]]}} Parts of several other states use Eastern Time as well: * nearly all of [[Florida]] except for the west border with [[Alabama]] * most of [[Indiana]] (all except the [[Evansvil