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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
When you call friends who live in other parts of the country, do you have to ask what time it is where they are? You know that drives them crazy. Brush up on the time zones with this little quiz.
Take the Quiz: Time Zones
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Fun Quiz, I missed Birmingham and Louisville.
A tricky one would have been Pensacola, Florida which is in Central
posted by Tex on 6-16-2009 at 12:08 pm
ouch, not quite as good at geography as I remember. It would be fun to see a map of where all these are – and the time zones. I could see how often I went back and forth the wrong way.
posted by mev on 6-16-2009 at 12:41 pm
What time zones are Alaska and Hawaii in?
posted by Tracie on 6-16-2009 at 2:17 pm
This reminds of riding MARTA in Atlanta and overhearing a couple in their teens discussing what time it was in Florida. If it was 4:00 p.m. in Atlanta, they felt for sure it must be about 3:30 in Florida.
posted by Lindsey on 6-16-2009 at 2:37 pm
Ironically Ontario, Oregon and Pensacola, Florida are only 1 hour difference in time. Ontario is in the Mountain time zone and Pensacola in the Central time zone.
posted by dAVE on 6-16-2009 at 5:58 pm
not much from the Mountain time zone, woulda liked a few more answers from there as that’s the one I have the hardest time with.
Also, could have had a trick question about Indiana, which I think is split between Eastern and Central time zones, but doesn’t adhere to Daylight Savings time, so parts of Indiana effectively alternate between the two. At least I remember hearing that, I don’t know the whole story, which is why it would have made a great trick question.
posted by Jonny on 6-16-2009 at 6:10 pm