[BlindTlk] Time zones

[Ericka]

Judy that is amazing that every county could basically pick their own time. I knew Indiana was kind of cut in half we are one part was on daylight savings time and the other part was not.

Ericka Nelson

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 11:10 PM, Judy Jones via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Halley,
> 
> I am on the west coast in Washington, which is Pacific time.
> 
> When it is four o'clock here, Mountain Time is five o'clock, Central is 6
> o'clock, and Eastern would be seven o'clock.
> 
> If you were to look at a time-line map, not all time zones are created
> equal.
> 
> Where I used to teach school in Kansas, we were right on the border between
> Central, which is east of the mountain states.  But each county got to vote
> if they wanted to stay in Mountain or Central.  The town to the north of us
> was on Mountain, while we were only 29 miles south and stayed on Central.
> 
> If you can picture a piece of fruit cut into 24 orange-slice segments, that
> is a simplified version of time zones.  
> 
> The reality is more complicated, but for conceptualizing, it will work.
> 
> Judy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of haley thurston via
> BlindTlk
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 7:48 PM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: haley thurston <haleythurston1999 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [BlindTlk] Time zones
> 
> Hello my name is Haley Thurston. Is there an app for figuring out a
> different time zones? Because I am having a very hard time figuring out
> mountain time versus Central versus Eastern standard time. If you could help
> me with this that would be awesome.
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