Time in
Time zoneEastern Standard Time
InitialsEST
UTC offsetUTC−5
Daylight saving time
NameEastern Daylight Time
InitialsEDT
UTC offsetUTC−4
StartSecond Sunday in March
EndFirst Sunday in November
tz database
America/Port-au-Prince

Haiti observes Eastern Standard Time Zone (UTC−5) as standard time, and Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) as daylight saving time (DST). DST is observed annually from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.[1]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Haiti is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Port-au-Prince. "HT" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Haiti directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[2]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
HT+1832−07220America/Port-au-Prince −05:00 −04:00

References

  1. "Haiti". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 13 December 2022. time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC, during Standard Time) … daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March; ends first Sunday in November
  2. "North America". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 13 December 2022.


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