EDT vs PST — cities and working rhythm
US East Coast summer offset (mid-March to early November), UTC-4. The narrower gap to Europe (only 4 h during northern-hemisphere summer) means early-morning EU meetings align with reasonable East Coast times.
US West Coast — home of Silicon Valley, LA entertainment, and the SaaS / VC ecosystem. Business hours 9 AM – 6 PM PT. Startup / tech culture stretches later than East Coast: it's common for calendar invites from West Coast product teams to run through 8 PM PT.
Time gap: PST is 4.0 hours behind EDT (standard-time offsets — daylight-saving flips shift this by an hour twice a year in most northern-hemisphere zones).