New York time explained
New York keeps Eastern Time, moving to Eastern Daylight Time on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November. The Eastern zone covers roughly half the population of the United States, which is why so much American scheduling is quoted in ET without further explanation.
New York does observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC changes twice a year. The time above already accounts for whichever is currently in force.
Reaching New York
A New York morning reaches Europe before it closes and a New York afternoon reaches the west coast, which makes the middle of the working day here one of the busiest scheduling windows anywhere. Asia is effectively a next-day conversation.
How this page works
The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone
database that ships with your browser, using the zone
America/New_York. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset
shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a
number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this
page changes with it.
The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing New York's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.