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Eastern Daylight Time

Eastern Daylight Time proper noun: the timezone that encompasses 23 states in the East Coast and the eastern Midwest in the United States, as well as the majority of the provinces and Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November; it is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-4), and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

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Proper noun

Eastern Daylight Time

  1. The timezone that encompasses 23 states in the East Coast and the eastern Midwest in the United States, as well as the majority of the provinces and Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November; it is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-4), and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
    Synonyms:
    EDT

Synonyms of Eastern Daylight Time

Questions about Eastern Daylight Time

What does Eastern Daylight Time mean?
Eastern Daylight Time means the timezone that encompasses 23 states in the East Coast and the eastern Midwest in the United States, as well as the majority of the provinces and Ontario and Quebec and the eastern third of Nunavut in Canada from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November; it is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-4), and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
What part of speech is Eastern Daylight Time?
Eastern Daylight Time is a proper noun.

Words near Eastern Daylight Time in the dictionary

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  3. eastern crowns
  4. eastern curlew
  5. eastern curlews
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  7. Eastern Delaware
  8. Eastern Desert
  9. Eastern Equatoria
  10. eastern equine encephalitis
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