Eastern Central Time Zone Line Florida
United states time zone boundaries.
Eastern central time zone line florida. People talk about fast time and slow time fast time meaning eastern time and slow time referring to life in the hour behind central time. Mexico beach in bay county is in the central time zone and adjacent st. Florida from the southwest corner of the state of georgia to the midpoint of the apalachicola river on the downstream side of jim woodruff dam. Time zones in florida.
Joe beach port st. The central time zone includes that part of the united states that is west of the boundary line between the eastern and central standard time zones and east of the boundary line between the central and mountain standard time zones described the central time zone includes the states of alabama arkansas part of florida illinois part of indiana iowa part of kansas part of kentucky. The gulf county bay county line marks a change in time zones. Florida panhandle time zones.
Longitude and east of the boundary line described in sec. Florida is generally in the eastern time zone with its north west border region in the central time zone cities in eastern standard time zone include miami dade quincy tallahasse crawfordville jacksonville lake city gainesville daytona beach orlando tampa fort myers and key west. The current time in parts of western florida is. This change of time zone creates a lot of confusion in nearby communities including mexico beach st.
Thursday 9 24 2020 5 09 pm cdt western florida is in the central time zone. Time zones in florida including time zone names for standard time and daylight saving time dst in 2020. A related bill senate bill 858 also proposed unifying the time zones of the panhandle counties to the rest of the state moving the ten counties that are within the central time zone to the eastern time zone but this bill was not passed. 71 5 and includes all of the state of maine but does not include any part of the commonwealth of puerto rico.
Boundary line between eastern and central time zones in the united states. The eastern part of florida which includes all the major towns and cities fall in the eastern time zone which is 5 hours behind greenwich mean time gmt 5. The eastern standard time zone includes that part of the united states that is west of 67 deg 30 sec w.
