Time Difference
Eastern Daylight Time is 8 hours and 30 minutes behind of Afghanistan Time
8:30 am in EDT is 5:00 pm in AFT
EST to AFT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-10am in EST which corresponds to
5:30pm-7:30pm in AFT
8:30 am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
5:00 pm Afghanistan Time (AFT). Offset UTC +4:30 hours
8:30 am EDT / 5:00 pm AFT
EDT AFT
12am (midnight) 8:30 am
1am 9:30 am
2am 10:30 am
3am 11:30 am
4am 12:30 pm
5am 1:30 pm
6am 2:30 pm
7am 3:30 pm
8am 4:30 pm
9am 5:30 pm
10am 6:30 pm
11am 7:30 pm
12pm (noon) 8:30 pm
1pm 9:30 pm
2pm 10:30 pm
3pm 11:30 pm
4pm 12:30 am
5pm 1:30 am
6pm 2:30 am
7pm 3:30 am
8pm 4:30 am
EDT AFT
9pm 5:30 am
10pm 6:30 am
11pm 7:30 am
Eastern Standard Time
Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands,
Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population
about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough
of Queens
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for
one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
End: EST ended and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, 14 March 2021, at 2:00 (2:00
am) local time.
Start: EST starts and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, 07 November 2021, at 2:00 (2:00
am) local time.
French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est
Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste
EST timezone map
EST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-
related data
-05 - basic short
-0500 - basic
-05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email
headers
-0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00)
of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
R - short form of 'Romeo'
IANA/Olson: Reflects EST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for
use with computer programs and operating systems
America/Atikokan
America/Cancun
America/Cayman
America/Coral_Harbour
America/Detroit
America/Fort_Wayne
America/Grand_Turk
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
America/Indiana/Marengo
America/Indiana/Petersburg
America/Indiana/Vevay
America/Indiana/Vincennes
America/Indiana/Winamac
America/Indianapolis
America/Iqaluit
America/Jamaica
America/Kentucky/Louisville
America/Kentucky/Monticello
America/Louisville
America/Montreal
America/Nassau
America/New_York
America/Nipigon
America/Panama
America/Pangnirtung
America/Port-au-Prince
America/Thunder_Bay
America/Toronto
Canada/Eastern
EST
EST5EDT
Jamaica
US/East-Indiana
US/Eastern
US/Michigan
Time zones with the GMT -5 offset:
CDT - Central Daylight Time
EST - Eastern Standard Time
ET - Eastern Time
COT - Colombia Time
CST - Cuba Standard Time
EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
ECT - Ecuador Time
PET - Peru Time
R - Romeo Time Zone
-05 -