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> Times are "Eastern Prevailing Time", which is Eastern Daylight Time right now.

I'm trying to recall when I last ever saw "Eastern Prevailing Time" used.

Can anyone share why it's used?

I see more use of ET over that (for Eastern US) or better yet UTC/GMT.

It removes ambiguity between ET (which do I mean?), EST (oops I meant EDT), and EDT (oops I meant EST).

I suspect they probably had an issue related to this, and prevailing time seems to work for them.

UTC is probably better, but a little less intuitive for most people.