Eastern Standard Time is +5R
GMT is +0Z
During the summer months Britain shifts to -1A, The East Coast shifts to +4Q
IOT, we're always five hours behind Britain.
If you want some entertainment before the results, may I suggest going to this BBC Election Site page ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/basics/default.stm
... and looking at the list of "party websites". So far only the three main parties have been getting a mention but there are some really far-out ones running too in a lot of places.
More than half of them would certainly merit a "barf alert" so please take that as read.