#Est time zone professional#
Major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time, even if both teams are from the same time zone, outside of Eastern Time.
#Est time zone tv#
National media organizations will often report when events happened or are scheduled to happen in Eastern Time even if they occurred in another time zone, and TV schedules are also almost always posted in Eastern Time. The area is roughly but not entirely coextensive with the region formally known as " East Tennessee".Įastern Time is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States, since it includes the capital (Washington, D.C.), the largest city ( New York City), and approximately half the country's population. Tennessee: The eastern third of Tennessee is in the Eastern Time Zone.The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all but the four counties noted changed to Eastern Time. When Daylight Saving Time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. Historically the entire state observed Central Time. Michigan: All of Michigan observes Eastern Time except the four westernmost counties, in the Upper Peninsula along the border with Wisconsin, which observe Central Time – Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, Menominee.Kentucky: Roughly, the eastern half of the state, including all of metropolitan Louisville is in the Eastern Time Zone and the western half is in the Central Time Zone however, the boundary is not a neat "north-south" line but runs northwest-southeast.
Until 2006, the portions of Indiana within the Eastern Time Zone observed Eastern Standard Time year-round-except that five counties near Cincinnati and Louisville customarily observed Eastern Daylight Time despite legally being on Eastern Standard Time.Indiana: All of Indiana observes Eastern Time except for six northwestern counties in the Chicago metropolitan area and six southern counties in the Evansville metropolitan area.As the Eastern-Central zone boundary approaches the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the Bay/Gulf county line. Florida: All of Florida is in the Eastern Time zone except for the portion of the Florida panhandle west of the Apalachicola River.However, a handful of communities unofficially observe Eastern Time because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area – Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley.
#Est time zone code#
The exact specification for the location of time zones and the dividing line between zones is set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 CFR 71. The seventeen states which observe only Eastern time are as follows. In the United States the District of Columbia along with seventeen states are entirely located within the Eastern Time zone, while another six are split between the Eastern and Central time zones.
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