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I guess you've got the conversion worked out, but this may b of help to someone:
US Eastern Standard Time zone is 5 hours west of the Greenwich meridian (UT). i.e. EST = UT minus 5h EDT = UT minus 4h
or if you like EST + 5h = UT and EDT + 4h = UT
8:45 p.m. EDT March 12
= 20:45 EDT March 12
= 00:45 UT March 13
I live in the Atlantic Time Zone (one time zone east of Cape Canaveral, New York and Boston); we are 4 hours west of the Greenwich Meridian
AST +4h = UT
ADT +3h = UT
We, in Canada have conformed to the influence of USA's recent adoption of an earlier date for switching to Daylight Time, so we will awaken to DT March 8th this year.
Occasionally if the sky is clear we get to see the last stages of the STS launches to the ISS. When conditions are favourable, what we see comes into view about 11 minutes after blast off from Florida. Nova Scotia is north and a bit east of Florida so the insertion orbit track parallels our Atlantic coastline.
Sherm
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