Is It EDT or EST?

A live Eastern Time checker identifies whether the America/New_York time zone is observing Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) or Eastern Standard Time (EST). Its clock updates every second and displays the current local time and date, the active time designation, and information about the next seasonal switch. At the time shown - 8:24 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2026 - it reports EST, following the autumn change from daylight saving time.

The accompanying explanation says EDT is UTC−4 and applies during daylight saving time, while EST is UTC−5 and applies for the rest of the year. Under the stated U.S. schedule, daylight time begins on the second Sunday in March at 2:00 a.m., when clocks move forward, and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2:00 a.m., when clocks move back. The page presents these distinctions as useful for coordinating meetings across time zones and gives a projected date for the next switch to EDT. However, its displayed calendar dates do not consistently match its own rules: the listed 2026 daylight-saving window and 2027 switch date appear a day earlier than the corresponding Sundays specified by those rules.