Eastern Daylight Time is UTC−04:00, the summer offset for the US and Canadian Eastern Time zone.
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EDT is the daylight-saving face of America/New_York. It is not a separate geographic zone from EST. People search for EDT when scheduling around US daylight saving, especially for New York financial hours and East Coast broadcasts. If this page shows UTC−05:00, Eastern Standard Time is in effect instead.
The offset shown above is computed from America/New_York at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
US daylight saving currently starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. Exact dates come from IANA data, not hardcoded rules on this site.
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) uses the IANA identifier America/New_York. Eastern Daylight Time is UTC−04:00, the summer offset for the US and Canadian Eastern Time zone.
Right now Eastern Daylight Time is UTC-04:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is EDT.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled EST and daylight time is labeled EDT. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with America/New_York as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses EDT. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.