# How to parse EDT time zone?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-parse-edt-time-zone/96824
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** time
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-parse-edt-time-zone/96824 "2023-03-30T05:46:55Z")
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For example, I have the following time “2012-01-09 12:00:10 EDT”. How do I parse it to a `ZonedDateTime` using `TimeZones.jl`? “EDT” is not a standard time zone, and `tz"EDT"` fails to parse. The thing is I want to make it general, so that both “EDT” and “EST”, and other time zones work.