EST to UTC Converter

Time Difference

Eastern Daylight Time is 4 hours behind of Universal Time Coordinated
So 8:53 AM08:53 in EDT is 12:53 PM12:53 in UTC

8:53 AM08:53 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
12:53 PM12:53 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

8:53 AM08:53 EDT / 12:53 PM12:53 UTC

Eastern Standard Time

Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens

Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

End: EST ends annually the Second Sunday of March at 2:00 AM local time and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

Start: EST starts annually the First Sunday of November at 2:00 AM local time and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, November 4, 2018, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

EST representations, usage and related time zones

• -05 - basic short
• -0500 - basic
• -05:00 - extended

• -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

• Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
• R - short form of 'Romeo'

• America/Atikokan
• America/Cayman
• America/Coral_Harbour
• America/Detroit
• America/Fort_Wayne
• America/Grand_Turk
• America/Indiana/Indianapolis
• America/Indiana/Marengo
• America/Indiana/Petersburg
• America/Indiana/Vevay
• America/Indiana/Vincennes
• America/Indiana/Winamac
• America/Indianapolis
• America/Iqaluit
• America/Jamaica
• America/Kentucky/Louisville
• America/Kentucky/Monticello
• America/Louisville
• America/Montreal
• America/Nassau
• America/New_York
• America/Nipigon
• America/Panama
• America/Pangnirtung
• America/Port-au-Prince
• America/Thunder_Bay
• America/Toronto
• Canada/Eastern
• EST
• EST5EDT
• Jamaica
• US/East-Indiana
• US/Eastern
• US/Michigan

Time zones with the GMT -5:00 h offset:

• CDT - Central Daylight Time
• EST - Eastern Standard Time
• ET - Eastern Time
• COT - Colombia Time
• CST - Cuba Standard Time
• EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
• ECT - Ecuador Time
• PET - Peru Time
• R - Romeo Time Zone
• -05 -

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC representations, usage and related time zones

• Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
• +00 - basic short
• +0000 - basic
• +00:00 - extended

• +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.

• Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
• Z - short form of 'Zulu'

• Antarctica/Troll
• UTC

Time zones with the GMT 0:00 h offset:

• EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
• GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
• WET - Western European Time
• AZOST - Azores Summer Time
• UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
• WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
• Z - Zulu Time Zone
• +00 -