St. Martin time same as East Coast time?

[reeses]

Can someone tell me if there is any time difference? I'm sailing on the Glory in one week. We are in St. Martin from 8 am - 6 pm. Is this ship time or St. Martin time or the same? Thanks.

[The Big Booper]

Can someone tell me if there is any time difference? I'm sailing on the Glory in one week. We are in St. Martin from 8 am - 6 pm. Is this ship time or St. Martin time or the same? Thanks.

 

St Martin is on Atlantic time which is 1 hour earlier than Eastern Std time. The island does not switch when DST comes in so is synched with US EDT during the summer.

[kittymom65]

St Martin is on Atlantic time which is 1 hour earlier than Eastern Std time. The island does not switch when DST comes in so is synched with US EDT during the summer.

 

Could not have said it better....just wanted to bring up one thing-if you are booking a private tour (especially during winter months, when there IS a time difference) make sure you confirm whether your times are "ship time" or "island time"

[gtaylor]

St Martin is on Atlantic time which is 1 hour earlier than Eastern Std time. The island does not switch when DST comes in so is synched with US EDT during the summer.

Could not have said it better....<snip>

 

Well, except it's wrong.

 

When the US is on Daylight Saving Time (second Sunday of March - First Sunday of November), St. Maarten is the same time as Miami, but the rest of the year it is one hour LATER than Miami. When it is 8:00 Miami time, it's already 9:00 in St. Maarten.

 

gary

[The Big Booper]

Well, except it's wrong.

 

When the US is on Daylight Saving Time (second Sunday of March - First Sunday of November), St. Maarten is the same time as Miami, but the rest of the year it is one hour LATER than Miami. When it is 8:00 Miami time, it's already 9:00 in St. Maarten.

 

gary

 

Which is what I said. They are 1 hour ahead of us when I look out the window and see snow on the ground and wish I was at Baywatch, not a suburb of NYC. So it is 10 AM there and 9 AM at home as I fire up the computer network.

[reeses]

Thanks all. Fortunately I will be there next week so the time will be the same.

[gtaylor]

Which is what I said. They are 1 hour ahead of us when I look out the window and see snow on the ground and wish I was at Baywatch, not a suburb of NYC. So it is 10 AM there and 9 AM at home as I fire up the computer network.

 

I'll buy into ahead, can't see earlier.

 

gary

[kal]

"It gets late early out there" :D

[WillieBluffU]

"It gets late early out there" :D

 

 

It sure does!....I did not notice it so much while on the cruise...but when we stayed 5 days on St. Croix it was noticable. At 5 am the sun was out and going strong....At 8 pm it was pitch dark

[WillieBluffU]

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