I live in Trinidad and we are in the same timezone as the eastern united states even though geographically we are relatively far to the east of the eastern US.
How is it then that Jamaica, which is alot closer west to the eastern US in a different time zone (GMT-5) than for instance Florida (GMT-4) and is therefore 1 hour behind?
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Time zones (on land) aren’t always straight lines, they’re often following state/country/province borders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#/media/File:World_Time_Zones_Map.png
Trinidad is UTC-4, Eastern US is -5 and Jamaica is -5. But during the northern summer, Eastern US is -4 (‘spring forward’) while Jamaica stays -5.
Chile is the opposite. They also have daylight savings so in their summer they are UTC-3, in winter they are UTC-4. So right now, they are at the same time as Eastern US. In the northern winter/southern summer, Chile is 2 hrs ahead of eastern US.
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