Eastern Time

At a glance

IANA

America/Jamaica

Standard offset

UTC−5 (EST)

Observes DST?

No

Countries

JM

Main cities

Kingston, New Kingston, Spanish Town, Portmore

Also known as

Jamaica

Developer snippets

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Jamaica' }).format(new Date());

// Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('America/Jamaica'));

// Java
java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of('America/Jamaica'));