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This article has U.S. bias. Quote from EST:
Please add the information about the two other time zones. I just don't have the time atm, might do it later. — kooo 13:17, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
The article still has a U.S. bias. It does not elaborate on which parts of Ontario and Quebec that Eastern Time is used in, and how DST is used in the Canadian regions. It also implies that the Canadian regions are not part of the time zone, but merely follows the same time. I myself am not certain about the information that is missing, and would appreciate it if someone will fix the article. Noting that other users have noticed a U.S. bias I will place a tag on the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by UTSRelativity ( talk • contribs) 19:47, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
I corrected several double redirects to this article (perhaps the page had been moved and nobody changed them). Afonso Silva 22:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Please see Talk:International Atomic Time#Union Square NYC. -- Mathew5000 22:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason this is here, and if so that Impact on $OTHER_COUNTRY isn't? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.74.176.198 ( talk) 10:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
(Assumed there wasn't and removed it) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.74.176.198 ( talk) 04:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there a reason why Eastern Time Zone redirects to Eastern Time Zone (North America)? If no other article is using Eastern Time Zone by itself, why not kill the parenthetical? Leave the disambiguation links at the top, of course... 138.69.160.1 13:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Why is the District of Columbia left out of the list of areas in the US that are in the time zone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.254.230 ( talk) 05:45, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
There are no New Jersey cities in the major met areas. At least include Newark and Trenton, moreover Jersey City, Princeton, and Camden. Diet 14:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I have no idea how changing content works except for the occasional spelling mistake, but is there any way I can ask someone more knowledgeable than myself to put in a reference to how EDT is connected to GMT or any other timezone for that matter? Because what I cannot tell from this page is how many hours ahead or behind this zone is from Europe, or at least a hint at what that math might be, and this may be something every American might know but I simply don't. Thanks. 14.00, 16 June 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.123.69.18 ( talk) 12:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
This article is about the time zone with daylight change in North America. For the static time zone, see UTC−05. Esmito ( talk) 18:40, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
I think, in Canada at least, people use the expression "EST" instead of ET as a generic name for both EDT and EST (even in the summer). Can somebody confirm this or add this? It could cause confusion if one writes EST with the meaning of ET and somebody else interprets EST to mean EST specifically and not EDT.-- 67.219.254.84 ( talk) 17:47, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
It seems strange that this page is part of WikiProject Canada but not part of WikiProject United States. Should we consider removing the WikiProject Canada tag? Guy Macon ( talk) 22:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
In the part of the article that lists the cities using this zone, there are several cities in bold, but there is no explanation to what the bold means. Does it mean the largest cities, if so, what is the threshold for a city to be in bold? Crd721 ( talk) 04:09, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
I can understand the quibble about "accurate time", since someone's cache might not be current. But why deleted the daylight savings start/stop info too? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 22:24, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I've recently discovered that Eastern Standard Time is a redirect to the US Eastern Time Zone article. I tried redirecting it to Eastern Standard Time (disambiguation) but it was reverted, [1] so I've started a move discussion, which may be found at Talk:Eastern Standard Time (disambiguation)#Requested move. Interested parties are invited to discuss. -- AussieLegend ( talk) 11:53, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
<!-- interwiki link kept as it links to a section -->
[[de:Zeitzone#Zonenzeit_UTC.E2.88.925h_bis_UTC.E2.88.924h]]
But it would be better if it was just a link to de:UTC−5 (
UTC−5), because the other one is to all "Zeitzonen" (
time zones).
In de.wiki, Eastern Standard Time is just #WEITERLEITUNG [[UTC−5]] (REDIRECT) --
Schwab7000 (
talk) 09:07, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Here is information on the current time;
It's 21:41 ( EDT) on April 18, 2024
Would anybody like this in an infobox? -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 17:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
span class="noprint"
element (note that {{
Purge}} already has a span class="noprint"
element, but what is needed here is another noprint element to also hide the parentheses surrounding the link. Cheers.
Zzyzx11 (
talk) 05:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)Great WP:TEAMWORK, guys! I had no idea there was a noprint element that can hide volatile info like that. -- Uncle Ed ( talk) 12:47, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
I calculated the percentage of the US population which is in the Eastern Time Zone, and came up with 34%, so I removed the text about most of the US being in Eastern time as a reason it is the de facto official time. -- Echoback ( talk) 12:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Haiti sometimes follows daylight savings, sometimes not. Its kind of random. The day they switch is also up for interpretation. Sometimes their is an announcement on the radio that the government has decided to switch that day. Sometimes that announcement is wrong... So you often have arguments over what time it is for a couple weeks around the switch. But for the most part, people don't really care that much, unless they are in the business world. A company or school will announce what they consider to be the right time and they'll just go with that. Not really appropriate for this page or the page on Haiti, and I have no official source to site other than personal experience. But I'm leaving it here as an FYI. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.76.64.234 ( talk) 16:22, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
Please don't. I am an Australian and like all Australians, when we refer to "Eastern Time", it applies specifically to Australian Eastern Time. There are 24 million Australians and the 24 million of us deserve to have our time zone acknowledged as having the same name, thereby requiring the specification of North America — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cityrailsaints ( talk • contribs) 03:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 16:17, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
It says in the image that the green bit to the far east of the land is the UTC-4 however the caption outside the image in the main infobox says its the pink one, not the green. Its confusing. Is it wrong? 189.217.60.122 ( talk) 08:36, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
I could find no justification for including a French translation in the lead for this article's title.
So I removed it. Feel free to discuss this action below if you feel it necessary. Rklawton ( talk) 15:58, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
Since the 1884 International Meridian Conference the initials 'EST' and 'Eastern Standard Time' were delegated to the east coast of Australia. I'm not sure when the US Eastern Seaboard Time or Eastern Standard Time came into effect, but I doubt it predated 1884. Whilst it might be common, it should be noted that it's an duplicate time zone. Agendabender ( talk) 17:24, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
On 6 March 2022, Editor
Williamwang363 made
this edit changing 'Eastern Standard Time' / 'EST' to 'Eastern Winter Time' / 'EWT' and, similarly, 'Eastern Daylight Time' / 'EDT' to 'Eastern Summer Time' / 'EST' without sourcing and without an edit summary. I
reverted with the edit summary unsupported edit;
.
Editor Williamwang363 reverted without comment and without supplying sources.
And, I
reverted that revert with the edit summary unsupported edit is still unsupported;
Editor Williamwang363
reverted yet again but this time left an edit summary: I don't care if I edit war with you, but I disagree with your revert
but still no sources to support the edit.
I am not going to revert again per WP:3RR so I will leave it to others to do that.
Editor Williamwang363: If you believe that your edit is correct, provide sources to support your edit.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 00:55, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
The way the Florida section is currently worded makes it sound like only a small portion of the state is on EST, but it's in fact most of the state except for some western sections of the Panhandle. Is there a way this could be re-worded to make that clearer, perhaps more similarly to some of the other states where the majority of the state is in this time zone (e.g. Michigan's)? I don't know if I'm the person to do it, but I think it needs to be clearer. Beggarsbanquet ( talk) 18:10, 25 August 2023 (UTC)