UTC-5

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UTC-5: Blue (December), Orange (June), Yellow (all year round), Light Blue - Sea areas

UTC−5 is the time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight Saving Time (DST).

For North America see also Eastern Standard Time and Central Daylight Time, in the Caribbean region this is considered as the Western Caribbean timezone. There are possibly various other names in other countries.

[edit] As standard time (all year round)

•  Canada - Southampton Island only
•  Bahamas
•  Cayman Islands (UK)
•  Haiti
•  Jamaica
•  Panama
•  Colombia
•  Ecuador - mainland
•  Peru

[edit] As standard time (Northern Hemisphere Winter)

•  Cuba
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)

Eastern Standard Time

•  Canada
  •  Nunavut (eastern), most of  Ontario and most of  Quebec
•  United States
  • all of  Connecticut, Delaware,  District of Columbia,  Georgia (U.S. state),  Maine,  Maryland, Massachusetts,  New Hampshire,  New Jersey, New York,  North Carolina,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  Rhode Island,  South Carolina,  Vermont,  Virginia,  West Virginia
  • most of  Florida,  Indiana,  Michigan
  • Eastern parts of  Kentucky,  Tennessee

[edit] As DST (Northern Hemisphere Summer)

Central Daylight Time

•  Canada
  •  Manitoba,  Nunavut (central),  Ontario (western)

•  United States
  • all of  Alabama,  Arkansas,  Illinois,  Iowa,  Louisiana,  Minnesota,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  Wisconsin
  • most of  Kansas ,  Nebraska,  North Dakota,  Oklahoma,  South Dakota ,  Tennessee,  Texas
  • western portions of  Florida,  Indiana,  Kentucky,  Michigan

•  Mexico
  • Central and Eastern areas (most of country). Mexico's Daylight Times start a few weeks after the United States

[edit] See also

• List of places in the UTC-5 timezone
• Time in Canada
• Time in Mexico
• Time in Peru
• Time in the United States