OT: Time Zones

[Duck on Wheels]

Russia covers, I think, five time zones, but the Transiberian Railway keeps Moscow time all the way to the Pacific. So if you live in, say, Irkutsk, you have one time outside the railway station and another time inside, and one time for Transsiberian train schedules and another for local trains. I guess it gives people something to work on mentally during the long, dreary Siberian winters.

[Fredwina]

Russia covers, I think, five time zones, but the Transiberian Railway keeps Moscow time all the way to the Pacific.

You're close .Russia has 11 time zones. I think we in the "west" forget how Immense a country Russia is.
Drifting OT (in the OT forum), I worked with a Soviet emirege. He told me one time, as a patriotic Soviet, he took a trip on the Trans-Siberain.
"The first Day out of Moscow, I see nothing but trees. Second day, same thing. Third day, I decide Soviet Union will never run out of lumber "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zones_of_Russia

[silver]

Time Zones.......any Indiana residents reading?

Indiana is one of those states that has mixed time zones. its' actaully gotten a little better in the last year. Most of the state isx in the Eastern time zone. Except for five counties in SW In and 5 in NwIN. Prior to this last year, most of the eastern time zone did not observe Daylight savings time. So half the year, the state was the same and the other half it was different.

However, now the entire state goes by daylight savings time. Now some counties are petitioning to change from Eastern to Central.

I once went to a marathon that was about 1.5 hours from my home. It was on the weekend that the time changed for daylight savings time in the Spring. But it was in the Eastern time zone. I live in the Central time zone. I had to look up the time on a special site that the state has to figure time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana

Mr. works two hours NNE of here. he's on Eastern and we're on Central. He has to convert every weekend.

Many people live in one time zone and work in another.

Another time zone tidbit: We used to live in memphis. Memphis is the hub of FEDEX. FEDEX has to coordinate all it's shipments around the world. The pilots there refer to Time at their headquarters (memphis or Central time zone) as "Elvis Time"

[CycleChic06]

Another time zone tidbit: We used to live in memphis. Memphis is the hub of FEDEX. FEDEX has to coordinate all it's shipments around the world. The pilots there refer to Time at their headquarters (memphis or Central time zone) as "Elvis Time"

Hee hee, that just keeps making me laugh...