Talk:Eastern Time Zone

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Impact on India

Impact on India is the same as on the rest of the world that does not follow Daylight savings time.

U.S. bias

This article has U.S. bias. Quote from EST:

EST may stand for:

• Eastern Standard Time - There are three time zones known as Eastern Standard Time (Australian time zone UTC+10, Brazilian Eastern time zone UTC-3 and North American time zone, UTC-5)

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 great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone may edit it. It may be that only North Americans have edited this article (The eastern time zone extends into Canada also). Please feel free to add this other information.

[jon] 20:39, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I've moved the page to North American Eastern Standard Time Zone. This should solve the problem. Jimp 15Jun05

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.

In Ontario and Quebec it's not known as EST directly, but as HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est. During observance of daylight saving, HAE - Heure Avancée de l'Est. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.235.159.104 (talk • contribs)

Not true for Ontario anglophones! They just call it Eastern Time Zone (or EST). QuartierLatin1968 17:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Anglo Ontarians (myself included) do not use French terms. — Nathan ^(talk) _{/ 23:10, 11 July 2006 (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) 18:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Double redirects

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)

Illustrate this article with picture of Metronome sculpture?

Please see Talk:International Atomic Time#Union Square NYC. --Mathew5000 22:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Much as I love the picture, it is placed rather poorly. May I suggest someone moving it?--Izno 09:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect?

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)

DC

Why is the District of Columbia left out of the list of areas in the US that are in the time zone?

NJ major cities

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)

Scope: South America should no be included here

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)

Usage

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)