Eastern Standard Time is UTC−05:00. It is the winter offset for much of the US and Canadian east, including New York.
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EST is one of two seasonal labels for the Eastern Time zone. The IANA zone America/New_York switches between EST in late autumn and winter and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−04:00) in spring and summer. Places that stay on EST all year, such as parts of the Caribbean, use different IANA identifiers. This page tracks America/New_York so the live clock matches New York, Washington, D.C., Toronto, and Miami when they are on standard time — and still shows the correct current offset when they are on EDT.
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.
Most of the US Eastern zone observes daylight saving. When clocks spring forward, the abbreviation becomes EDT (UTC−04:00).
Eastern Standard Time (EST) uses the IANA identifier America/New_York. Eastern Standard Time is UTC−05:00. It is the winter offset for much of the US and Canadian east, including New York.
Right now Eastern Standard 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 EST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.