brief mystery of time

[jfb]

A few words of advice. When planning a lateral cross-continent drive:

1. Don't forget to take time zones into account.
2. Don't forget to understand how time zones work.
3. Don't go to Arizona.

randomchef, okay, what I think is going on is: Streets & Trips will tell you when your next stop is in a different time zone; but in the directions, it'll pretend the whole stop is in one time zone, and it won't tell you where the change is. So you can't really trust the time-of-day marks, but the total-trip-time is correct. Also, it doesn't know the confusing thing about Arizona, but you don't have that problem.

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[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Avoid parts of Indiana, too.

I remember going past at least one sign that told us when we were crossing a time zone line, which was sort of fun, but not as fun as the "now crossing the 45th parallel" signs in Oregon.

Glad you're safe somewhere, but where are you?

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

hey, you got a problem with Arizona? i'm from there, you know. :)

the timezone thing gets lots of folks. don't worry, we'll be on the same time as them soon. :)

hope the trip's going well!

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure (not that you have to deal with this) that the central third of australia is thirty minutes off from one of the other two time zones, and an hour thirty off from the other. AIEEE.