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  2. Eastern Time Zone - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico . Places that use: Eastern Standard Time ( EST ), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00 ...

  3. History of time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a ...

  4. Daylight saving time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a uniform set of rules for states opting to observe daylight saving time. [1] In the U.S., daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, with the time changes taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time. With a mnemonic word play referring to seasons, clocks ...

  5. Time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Daylight saving time (DST) [edit] Main article: Daylight saving time in the United States. Daylight saving time (DST) begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. Clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the following start dates and set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the corresponding end dates:

  6. List of UTC offsets - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round. The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets ...

  7. Permanent time observation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Observes permanent standard time. Establishing either permanent standard or daylight saving time (DST) eliminates the practice of semi-annual clock changes, specifically the advancement of clocks by one hour from standard time to DST on the second Sunday in March (commonly called " spring forward") and the retraction of clocks by one hour from ...

  8. Time in Indiana - Wikipedia

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    Location of the state of Indiana in the United States, highlighted in red.. The U.S. state of Indiana is divided into Eastern and Central time zones.The official dividing line has generally moved progressively west from its original location on the Indiana–Ohio border, to a position dividing Indiana down the middle, and finally to its current location along much of the Indiana–Illinois border.

  9. Time in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Michigan adopted Central Standard Time throughout the state effective September 18, 1885. [1] [2] [3] In 1915, Detroit changed to Eastern time to be on the same time zone as New York , [4] followed by most of the rest of the state in 1931.