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?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

There were some of those 45 parallel signs in, um, somewhere. I think it was New York.

Anyway, hi! Arizona confused me, too, though it was so frickin' beautiful I really didn't mind.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. In reality, Arizona was one of my favorite parts of the trip so far--the land was gorgeous and the strangers were friendly. But the time zone, come on.

[wrog]

If it was New York they were lying. The only east coast state that sticks up that far is Maine

(hm. I guess this means we need to do the driving trip to Nova Scotia or something now...)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

dougo has a recent photo of a sign marking the Mason-Dixon line.

I'm in Nashville, at cwage's house. Should be several posts today as it's my first non-driving day with free net.