Eastern Standard Time
noun/ˌiːstən ˈstændəd taɪm/
/ˌiːstərn ˈstændərd taɪm/
[uncountable] (abbreviation EST)
(also Eastern time)
- the time used in the winter in the eastern US and Canada, which is five hours earlier than UTCTopics Timec2
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