Time in the Bahamas

The Bahamas observes Eastern Standard Time Zone (UTC−5) as standard time, and Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) as daylight saving time (DST). DST is observed annually from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.^[1]

Time in the Bahamas
Time zone	Eastern Standard Time
Initials	EST
UTC offset	UTC−5
Daylight saving time
Name	Eastern Daylight Time
Initials	EDT
UTC offset	UTC−4
Start	Second Sunday in March
End	First Sunday in November
tz database
America/Nassau

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, the Bahamas is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Nassau. "BS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Bahamas directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[2]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
BS	+2505−07721	America/Nassau		−05:00	−04:00