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Originally Posted by Holtzman
EDT stands for Eastern Daylight Time. Its the same as eastern standard time except now were on daylight savings time.
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Not exactly. Right now it is 9:36 EDT and 8:36 EST. It's also 7:36 CST and 8:36 CDT.
EST is Eastern Standard time and is UTC (the time not the FIRST sponsor) - 5 hours, used when we are on standard time. EDT is Eastern Daylight time and is UTC - 4 hours, used when we are on Daylight Saving Time.
It wouldn't make much of a difference except that there are some crazy Indianans who do not observe Daylight Saving Time, so the whole year they are on CST. However, when interfacing with the rest of the world, in the summer they have to use EDT, since no one gives times in CST then.
Seeing as how there is a large contingent of Indianans on CD, we should try to keep them happy and use the correct times
