EST – Eastern Standard Time (Standard Time)

Eastern Standard Time or EST has a UTC-05:00 which means that the time zone is five hours behind from Greenwich Mean Time and it is located at the west of the Greenwich. Eastern Standard Time or EST time zone is used during standard time.

• North America
• Central America
• na
• ca

Email Time Zone Indicator: -0500

An E-mail sent from somebody inside the Eastern Standard Time zone could have the time zone listed as -0500 inside the headers of the email. (However, -0500 ought not to be in Eastern Standard Time, as different time zones might have an equivalent Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) offset.
- Note. UTC/GMT itself shows up as +0000; −0000 implies the time zone basically obscure you'll be able to ignore that. However, the time zone's name can seem like a part of the time zone offset (like +0000 (UTC/GMT)); you can overlook that.