Meanings
- The timezone that encompasses 23 states in the East Coast and the eastern Midwest in the United States, as well as the majority of the provinces and Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November; it is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-4), and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
Synonyms: EDT
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe timezone that encompasses 23 states in the East Coast and the eastern Midwest in the United States, as well as the majority of the provinces and Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November; it is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-4), and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
Translations
French heure avancée de l'Est
- heure avancée de l'Esttime zone
Spanish horario de verano del este
- horario de verano del estetime zone
Cite this entry
Eastern Daylight Time. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eastern%20Daylight%20Time
“Eastern Daylight Time.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eastern%20Daylight%20Time. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Eastern Daylight Time,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eastern%20Daylight%20Time.
Source: Eastern Daylight Time on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.