I always lose track of time, but I just realized my clock and the time of post shown here are quite afar.. So went into my account settings to correct my time zone..
I have a small request; Could whoever is in charge around here please make the time zone setting just a little bit more complicated ?
I didn't realize that many time zones existed here on earth. I couldn't find my house anywhere.
Since you are Eastern USA, you would use the New York time zone.
We have two time zones for Kentucky. I once drove to a friends house in Monticello Ky leaving at 7 pm and arriving at her house at 7 pm give or take a few minutes. I had no idea my Chevy Cavalier was a time machine. lol From Waynesburg,Ky to Monticello, Ky it was was 43.8 miles and 55 minutes. Yeah i used to have a lead foot lol
That reminds me of when I use to live in Bristol Tennessee.. not a matter of 2 time zones, but of taxes. State street is split right down the middle line by Virginia.. Everybody downtown would walk across the street to get their cigarettes on the Virginia side where it was only .45 cents a pack, cause on the Tennessee side it was .70 cents!.. If I recall correctly gas was .69 cents a gallon on both sides.
Thanks Mram, my forum time shows correct now. I'm so used to simply selecting Eastern Standard Time.
2 time zones for Florida also.
My brain has a different time zone than anywhere.
This map shows how a few states are indeed split between time zones.
Notice that the time zones are not straight lines down the country, but rather a chunky in and out.. It appears that a little part of Texas should have fell into mountain standard time, but instead it stops right at their border.
I guess you just dont mess with Texas.
What's going on with Arizona?
I think Arizona opts out of Daylight Time.
The map makes it appear rather than use DST, they take one time zone in winter and another in summer.
I wonder what they do the rest of the year?
DingDingDingDingDing! You're right, Carl. We don't change ou clocks here in AZ. Not that it saves us any confusion - we still have to figure out what time it is everywhere else.
Is a true story...
One year, 2009 or 2010, I went on strike against daylight time and refused to convert all the programming on my schedule page from standard time.
But within months the confusion became so... ah, confused, that I surrendered and now swear and curse while I change all the times twice a year.
Those people who want daylight time for whatever reason should just adjust their own personal schedules instead of dragging the rest of us along on needless clock resetting.
Maybe the ALPB can get it sorted out once and for all.
Maybe you could post the times in GMT/UTC.
Let the people figure out what that would be in ZuLu (local) time.
That way you wouldn't have to change them.
Thinking about it, given the potential of a worldwide audience, posting local time is almost pointless, whether it is standard or daylight time.
The reason UTC/GMT universal time exists is to provide a world standard accessible from anywhere.
International shortwave broadcasters have traditionally employed UTC/GMT in their transmissions.
On my website schedule page I have two time columns: one is UTC the other is local Central Time, which is mostly for my own convenience. Twice a year I must shift the comparative columns by one hour. One year I accidentally shifted the times in the wrong direction and everything was two hours apart.
To lift the problem up and away from the computer (for local reference), what I would like to have are two big wall clocks: one of them on 24-hour UTC/GMT, the other set to Local, whether Standard or Daylight.
Only the ALPB can help us in troubled times (pun hardly intended).