5pm EDT is 12:00 am Israel the next day
5pm EDT is 12:00 am IDT in Israel Time, on the next day. Israel is 7 hours ahead of EDT today, and that gap changes during the year, so this is recomputed rather than assumed.
What time is 5pm EDT in Israel?
It is 12:00 am. Israel is 7 hours ahead of Eastern, so you add 7 hours to 5:00 pm and the result lands on the next day. 5pm is evening in Eastern, dinner and the end of the working day, while 12:00 am is midnight in Israel, the moment the date rolls over.
ISO 8601 would write this instant as 2026-09-28 21:00Z, the same moment expressed with no zone opinion at all. Both 5pm EDT and 12:00 am Israel are local readings of that one instant, which is the only thing either clock is really describing.
5pm EDT to Israel in the hours either side
The four hours before and after 5pm, in case the meeting moves. Note that the calendar date does not stay put across this window: it changes partway through, which is exactly where scheduling mistakes come from.
| EDT | Israel | Israel date | Working hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | 8:00 pm | same day | EDT only |
| 2:00 pm | 9:00 pm | same day | EDT only |
| 3:00 pm | 10:00 pm | same day | EDT only |
| 4:00 pm | 11:00 pm | same day | EDT only |
| 5:00 pm (this page) | 12:00 am | the next day | neither |
| 6:00 pm | 1:00 am | the next day | neither |
| 7:00 pm | 2:00 am | the next day | neither |
| 8:00 pm | 3:00 am | the next day | neither |
| 9:00 pm | 4:00 am | the next day | neither |
Is 5pm EDT a good time to call Israel?
No. 12:00 am in Israel is midnight, the moment the date rolls over. Nobody is taking that call. The zones are 7 hours apart, so the nearest sensible slot is a different hour entirely.
Does daylight saving change 5pm EDT to Israel?
Yes. Sampled at 5pm on every day of 2026, the gap takes 2 different values. Today it is 7 hours, which is why the answer above is dated rather than fixed.
Eastern Time is currently on EDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-4 to UTC-5.
Israel Time is currently on IDT and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
5pm Israel to EDT, the other way round
Running the question the other way is a different conversion, not a mirror image, because the two zones can be in different daylight saving states on the same date. 5pm Israel is 10:00 am EDT, which is a different reading from the answer above, because the two directions are separate questions. One wrinkle worth knowing: EST and EDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Eastern Time reads EST in winter and EDT in summer. When somebody types "est to israel" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves EST to America/New_York and ISRAEL to Asia/Jerusalem and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Questions
- What is 5pm EDT in Israel?
- 12:00 am Israel, the next day.
- Does 5pm EDT cross into another date in Israel?
- Yes. It lands on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, the next day.
- Is 5pm EDT always 12am Israel?
- No. The gap moves during the year, between 6 hours and 7 hours. Today it is 7 hours.
- What is 5pm EDT in UTC?
- 21:00 UTC, because EDT is currently UTC-4.
- Can I call Israel at that hour?
- 12:00 am is outside the 9 to 5 working day in Israel.
Other hours on this pair
EDT to Israel full conversion table · Israel to EDT · 5pm Israel to EDT · All timezone conversions
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