UTC-5 Eastern Time is incorrect by 1 hour (up)

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  senseofsensability · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 3:01 pm

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  UTC-5 Eastern Time is incorrect by 1 hour (up)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 17, 2013 at 3:06 pm

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  The Eastern time zone in the U.S. is currently UTC-4 because we are on daylight savings time: “Spring forward; Fall back.”

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  senseofsensability · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 6:23 pm

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  with most applications including Microsoft windows and all of the hand held devices including the cell phone… it automatically adjusts… the time… without the need of changing time zone for a different zone…

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 6:28 pm

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  If you use a UTC offset no changes for daylight savings will be made

  If you choose a city in your time zone, changes for daylight savings will be made automatically

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  senseofsensability · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm

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  thank you, I will do that today

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 6:34 pm

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  You have to scroll up on the list of timezones and choose a city in the eastern time zone for the daylight saving time correction. If you choose UTC-5, then that is what it is… UTC-5. No daylight saving time corrections are made to the UTC-X selections because not all places in that time zone do daylight saving time.