Do you live on a time zone line?

[maddiebee]

My BF and I were talking this morning about how confusing it must be if you live right on a time zone line. I would love to hear what people's experiences are living there. Are there procedures in place so people aren't constantly confused by what time it is? Are people constantly late/super early? Is it totally maddening to live on that line or do you ultimately only commit to things that are in one time zone?

 

[marius97]

My BF and I were talking this morning about how confusing it must be if you live right on a time zone line. I would love to hear what people's experiences are living there. Are there procedures in place so people aren't constantly confused by what time it is? Are people constantly late/super early? Is it totally maddening to live on that line or do you ultimately only commit to things that are in one time zone?

Worse than that...I live in SW Michigan near the Indiana state line. Up until a few years ago, Indiana did not change their clocks at all. Half the year they were on our time (eastern) and half they were on Chicago time (central.) I worked at a golf course in Michigan most of that time and every time someone called I would confirm their time as being 10:30 Michigan Time. Often they would darn it and they actually wanted 10:30 Indiana which would have been 9:30 MI. Confused yet?

Then I worked in Indiana for a few years while living in Michigan. You should have seen me try to figure out what time I needed to leave for work and and what time I would get home. I had a 30 minute drive to work and I would get there 30 minutes before I left...leave at 7:00 MI and get there at 6:30 IN. That was GREAT for my morning shifts at the golf course. Coming home was a bear. My 30 minute drive became an hour and a half...leave at 7:00 IN get home at 8:30 MI.

We still traveled back and forth all the time. After living there for awhile, you learn to deal with it. It was only a minor inconvenience. Sometimes it was great because a store across the line might be open later due to the time change.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

No! Thank goodness, I've had the same thoughts as you, OP.

 

[ironpig70]

I worked for U Haul and our headquarters are in Arizona.

They do not observe daylight savings time.

Fun times.

 

[iheartdisney]

i always loved flying from Midland, TX to El Paso, because you land 15 minutes before you took off.

 

[mickeymedic]

Where I live and work, we follow EST. However CST is less than an hour away. It can be interesting when I am calling people and setting up meetings. I frequently check to see what time zone my clients are in so that we are both ready fro the meeting at the same time.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Where I live and work, we follow EST. However CST is less than an hour away. It can be interesting when I am calling people and setting up meetings. I frequently check to see what time zone my clients are in so that we are both ready fro the meeting at the same time.

We had a meeting in IN one time that included folks from Kentucky. Both spots Eastern, but IN didn't recognize DST. The KY folks knew this and compensated an hour ...... in the wrong direction. They showed up 2 hours early

 

[sonnyjane]

My mom lives in northwest Florida which is a different time zone than the rest of the state. That took a while to get used to.

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

My husband spent a year TDY at Fort Benning, GA, which is right on the border of GA and AL. GA is Eastern time and AL is Central time. His apartment was in AL, but his office was in GA. He just stayed on Eastern time the whole year he was there.

 

[ToTLaugher]

I don't live near a time zone border, but I thought I would bump this thread to hear more stories. This is very interesting!

 

[Ginny Favers]

I used to live in California, but right on the Arizona border. Pretty much all of civilization was in Arizona, so we'd go there often. Because they don't observe daylight savings time, sometimes we would be an hour behind them, but sometimes not.

 

[indimom]

Worse than that...I live in SW Michigan near the Indiana state line. Up until a few years ago, Indiana did not change their clocks at all. Half the year they were on our time (eastern) and half they were on Chicago time (central.) I worked at a golf course in Michigan most of that time and every time someone called I would confirm their time as being 10:30 Michigan Time. Often they would darn it and they actually wanted 10:30 Indiana which would have been 9:30 MI. Confused yet?

Then I worked in Indiana for a few years while living in Michigan. You should have seen me try to figure out what time I needed to leave for work and and what time I would get home. I had a 30 minute drive to work and I would get there 30 minutes before I left...leave at 7:00 MI and get there at 6:30 IN. That was GREAT for my morning shifts at the golf course. Coming home was a bear. My 30 minute drive became an hour and a half...leave at 7:00 IN get home at 8:30 MI.

We still traveled back and forth all the time. After living there for awhile, you learn to deal with it. It was only a minor inconvenience. Sometimes it was great because a store across the line might be open later due to the time change.

Ahh, good times, good times!!

I live on the Indiana/Ohio border. My high school had students from Indiana AND Ohio attending (until they finally redrew the district lines my senior year in 1991. ) Everyone knew and understood that school events/activities were on Indiana time. But, when friends were trying to schedule weekend parties, or when sports events were held at schools across the line, we always had to double and triple check the times to make sure WHEN we really need to be somewhere....

There were also a couple years after Indiana passed DST, when our little corner of the state chose not to comply and many schools and businesses did not change their clocks. Now, that was really awful. You never knew who was following DST and who was not.

 

[jen0610]

I worked for U Haul and our headquarters are in Arizona.

They do not observe daylight savings time.

Fun times.

I so miss this in IN. I HATE changing the clocks. It was so much nicer and easier when we didn't. I hate having bright daylight at 9 o'clock at night in the summer. My internal clock still hates having to adjust to the change every spring and fall.

 

[DawnM]

This was us in reverse. My dad worked in MI and lived in Indiana. He had to get up at 4:30am to leave by 5am to get to work by 6:45 Michigan time.

Dawn

Worse than that...I live in SW Michigan near the Indiana state line. Up until a few years ago, Indiana did not change their clocks at all. Half the year they were on our time (eastern) and half they were on Chicago time (central.) I worked at a golf course in Michigan most of that time and every time someone called I would confirm their time as being 10:30 Michigan Time. Often they would darn it and they actually wanted 10:30 Indiana which would have been 9:30 MI. Confused yet?

Then I worked in Indiana for a few years while living in Michigan. You should have seen me try to figure out what time I needed to leave for work and and what time I would get home. I had a 30 minute drive to work and I would get there 30 minutes before I left...leave at 7:00 MI and get there at 6:30 IN. That was GREAT for my morning shifts at the golf course. Coming home was a bear. My 30 minute drive became an hour and a half...leave at 7:00 IN get home at 8:30 MI.

We still traveled back and forth all the time. After living there for awhile, you learn to deal with it. It was only a minor inconvenience. Sometimes it was great because a store across the line might be open later due to the time change.

 

[Wishing on a star]

We have lived in Central time, right next to the Eastern Time Zone.

I always liked Daylight Savings Time, just except for it getting dark so darned early in the winter! Almost feels like living in Alaska or something.

I know that just across the time zone, everyone else, if the clocks weren't changed, many would have to get up and go to school and work in the dark.

Everyone observes daylight savings time.
That WOULD get confusing.
Other than that, the different time zones were not much of an issue.

 

[Imzadi]

I worked for U Haul and our headquarters are in Arizona.

They do not observe daylight savings time.

Fun times.

One time we were driving to the Grand Canyon from NV. We didn't realize we had crossed a time zone. No problems all day. Never thought to ask anyone what time THEY had on their watches.

Then we drive to Monument Valley. I've been to both places several times, so it never occurred to me there would be a problem.

We get to Monument Valley. I stop into the Visitor's Office to pee. THAT'S when I find out they are closing in Mountain Time, AND that they don't observe daylight saving time. So instead of having TWO leisurely hours and maybe get to see the sunset there, we had a measly 45 minutes, (well before sunset,) after the 2+ hours drive there.

And anyone who's been there knows there is nothing else to see within a 2 hour drive. Plus we'd still have the same time zone problem.

 

[RyMacJ]

My husband spent a year TDY at Fort Benning, GA, which is right on the border of GA and AL. GA is Eastern time and AL is Central time. His apartment was in AL, but his office was in GA. He just stayed on Eastern time the whole year he was there.

I live not far from Columbus, GA. A very small portion of Alabama (where I live) is on Eastern time. I live in the Beulah area (not really a town, more like a community) which is only 15 miles or so from Columbus. Valley, AL, and Lanett, AL which is not far from us in the other direction, live on Eastern as well, and the rest of the state is on Central. In Beulah, though, lots of people live on what they like, so you never know! For instance, my daycare for youngest DD is on Eastern time, and my 5yo DD's elementary school is on Central time. They are like 3 miles apart! Try that out for size

We keep our clocks set on Eastern time, because we prefer it (shows we like to watch at night start at 8, the kids bedtime, rather than 7; we can get up at 6 AM our time and still make it to school/work at 7:30 central time, etc.) but it was confusing at first. I'm very used to it now, after 6 years. I work in Opelika, which is on central time. My office is about 10 minutes from my house. We have a GA office that's about 40 minutes away that's on Eastern of course. That took some getting used to for a lot of the people who live in Opelika and don't normally deal with Eastern time.

My parents and a lot of my friends live in Opelika/Auburn which is on central time. None of them are more than half an hour from me.

Oh, and we call it "fast time" (Eastern) or "slow time" (Central). hehe.

Here is one for a laugh, though--I've always lived in this area, but I grew up in Opelika, on central time. It wasn't until I married that I started living on Eastern, but I knew about the different time zones being so close together here. When TV shows come on here they say "coming on at 8/7 Central" or whatever the time may be. DD5 will tell us that when there is something coming on that she wants to watch, and one day I said to my DH, "isn't it funny how she says that, and she knows that we live near two time zones just because of TV shows." or something like that. He looked at me like I was crazy and said "they do that everywhere". (he's from west AL, where they only had the Central time zone.)

 

[mommabo]

I so miss this in IN. I HATE changing the clocks. It was so much nicer and easier when we didn't. I hate having bright daylight at 9 o'clock at night in the summer. My internal clock still hates having to adjust to the change every spring and fall.

I didn't think I'd like not changing time when we moved to Arizona from Texas, but I have found I really like it. Half the year we are PST other half MST - we adjust. The only time it's been a problem is when my DH has had meeting with/at the Navajo Nation - they do observe daylight savings. He triple checks those meeting times.