America/New_York

America/New_York
40/42/N/074/00/W

From efele.net based on 2009r data
Data from file "zone.tab" of the tz database
Country code
(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)
US
Coordinates
(ISO 6709)
+404251-0740023
Comments Eastern Time
Other data from tz database
UTC offset
(ISO 8601)
-05:00
UTC offset DST
(ISO 8601)
?
External links

America/New_York is a time zone identifier in the tz database. The data is as follows:

US
+404251-0740023
America/New_York
Eastern Time

The reference point is New York City.

Covered area

The covered area with some exceptions is all of the US Eastern Time Zone.

From Indiana only Dearborn County and Ohio County are covered. For other tz zone in Indiana see the description at America/Indiana/Indianapolis. Parts of Michigan started using Eastern Time only later, they are covered by America/Detroit.

See also