What Time is It In Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania is one of the 50 states that makes up the United States of America, in the northeastern part of the country. Since Pennsylvania is part of the contiguous United States, it has one time zone, the Eastern Time Zone. This time zone is also referred to as Eastern Standard Time, or EST.

What Does Eastern Standard Time Mean?

Eastern Standard Time (EST) is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This is the same as the Atlantic Standard Time (AST) zone, the difference between the two being that EST is a daylight saving time, meaning that an hour is added for daylight hours during the warmest months of the year. During the winter months, EST is set five hours behind UTC, and during the spring and summer, it is set four hours behind UTC.

What Time is It Now in Pennsylvania?

So, to answer the question in the title: What time is it in Pennsylvania? The answer is that, at this moment, it is 9:12 PM EST on April 16th, 2021. This means that it is 2:12 AM UTC on the 17th. However, since this is the US eastern time zone, this time is the same throughout the state of Pennsylvania; at any point, the time in Pennsylvania is the same across the state.

For those located in Pennsylvania, they may also want to take into account the daylight savings time, which affects the whole of the US in the spring and summer months, when an extra hour is added to EST, changing it from the usual five hours behind UTC to just four. This means that, in the spring and summer months, the time in Pennsylvania is one hour earlier than in the winter months, effectively giving Pennsylvania an extra hour of daylight during the warmest parts of the year.