What's the difference between Canada/Eastern and EST timezones

[makku22]

My colleague and I are having trouble between Canada/Eastern and EST timezones. His default timezone is EST, while mine is Canada/Eastern. I assume the two timezones are just the same -5 behind with UTC, but what I observed the Canada/Eastern has an hour offset for DST while the EST has a fixed -5 hours behind with UTC without an hour offset for DST. Could someone confirm or enlightened us if my assumption is correct?

[AnveshKumar M · Accepted solution]

Hi @makku22 

Yes you are correct!

Canada/Eastern is typically considered as EDT in ServiceNow atleast. That's the reason you see the Daylight offset when you use Canada/Eastern.

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