[BlindTlk] Time zones

[Judy Jones]

Yes, and, of course, the further south or north you go, they can be wider or narrower, and some of the Pacific islands have crazy things going on with time zones, too.

Judy


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From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Ericka via BlindTlk
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Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Time zones

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
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> 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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