UTC−04:00

UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00
Time zone
	World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTC	UTC±00:00
Current time
	09:52, 5 November 2024 UTC−04:00 [refresh]
Observance of DST
	DST is observed throughout this time zone.

UTC−04:00 is a time offset that subtracts 4 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is observed in the Eastern Time Zone (e.g., Canada and the United States) during the warm months of daylight saving time, as Eastern Daylight Time. The Atlantic Time Zone observes it during standard time (cold months). It is observed all year in the Eastern Caribbean.

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter)

Principal cities: Halifax

Canada – Eastern Time Zone
- Nunavut (eastern), most of Ontario and most of Quebec
United States – Eastern Time Zone
- All of Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, 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
- Unofficial use in several communities in Russell County, Alabama, including Phenix City. Although the legal time for all of Alabama from the last weeks of the northern winter to mid-autumn is Central Daylight Time (UTC–5), Phenix City and its surrounding communities informally synchronize their clocks with the considerably larger city of Columbus, Georgia, directly across the Chattahoochee River from Phenix City.^{[citation needed]}

Principal cities: Santiago, Asunción

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