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TIME ZONES
See
http://nist.time.gov
EASTERN
Local Time: The USA lies across 7 time zones:
TIME ZONE
Atlantic Time: GMT minus 4 hours
Eastern Standard Time: GMT minus 5 hours
Central Standard Time: GMT minus 6 hours
Mountain Standard Time: GMT minus 7 hours
Pacific Standard Time: GMT minus 8 hours
Alsaka Time: GMT minus 9 hours
Hawaii Time: GMT minus 10 hours
MAINE
VERMONT
NEW
HAMPSHIRE
MASSACHUSETTS
Minneapolis
WISCONSIN
Boston
✈
NEW YORK
RHODE ISLAND
✈
MINNESOTA
CONNECTICUT
MICHIGAN
Detroit
New York
✈
✈
Milwaukee PENNSYLVANIA
Newark✈
✈
Cleveland
✈
Philadelphia NEW JERSEY
IOWA
Chicago
Pittsburgh ✈
✈
INDIANA OHIO
Baltimore
DELAWARE
✈
✈
Indianapolis
WASHINGTON
MARYLAND
ILLINOIS
Cincinnati
D.C.
WEST
✈
VIRGINIA
✈
ansas City
VIRGINIA
St. Louis
✈
✈
KENTUCKY
MISSOURI
NORTH
Raleigh-Durham
CAROLINA
✈
TENNESSEE
Charlotte
✈
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Memphis
SOUTH
are the only territories in the Atlantic
OMA
ARKANSAS
CAROLINA
time zone.
✈
As in the UK, there is a system of
Daylight Saving (Summer Time) from
Atlanta
✈
the first Sunday in April to the last
Sunday in October, so for most of the
MISSISSIPPI
GEORGIA
year the East Coast stays five hours
ALABAMA
behind Britain, and the Pacific Coast
8 hours behind. However, Hawaii
t
✈
h and the US Virgin Islands, and part of
LOUISIANA Indiana and Arizona, do not observe
Daylight Saving Time.
FLORIDA
New Orleans
✈
Orlando
Houston
✈✈
Tampa
✈
Miami
✈
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