The Eastern Time Zone is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States. It also includes parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small portion of westernmost Brazil. Southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time.
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The Eastern Time Zone is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States. It also includes parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small portion of westernmost Brazil in South America. Southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time. The boundaries of the Eastern Time zone have moved westward since the Interstate Commerce Commission took over time-zone management from railroads in 1938.
Seventeen states and Washington, D. C. are located entirely within the Eastern time zone. In Canada, daylight Saving Time begins and ends on the same days and at the same times as it does in the U.S. The Bahamas and Haiti officially observe both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Time during the summer months. The Turks and Caicos Islands switched back to the pre-2015 schedule in March 2018.
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