by neufer » Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:45 pm
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<<Lauren and Alice are talking long distance on the phone. Lauren is in an East-Coast US state which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and Alice is in a West-Coast state which borders the Pacific Ocean. Lauren asks Alice: "What time is it?" Alice replies and Lauren says: "That's really odd. It's the same time here!" How can this be?>>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Panhandle wrote:
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<<References to the Florida Panhandle always include the ten counties west of the Apalachicola River. These western counties also lie in the Central Time Zone (with the exception of Gulf County, which is divided between the Eastern and Central Time zones), while the rest of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone. Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle in Walton County. One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, Seaside rose to global fame as being the main filming location of the movie The Truman Show.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_County,_Oregon wrote:
<<Malheur County is a county in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Oregon. Its county seat is Vale, and its largest city is Ontario. Malheur County is one of the few counties in the United States with two time zones. Most of the county is in the Mountain Time Zone, but a small portion in the south is in the Pacific Time Zone. The county was named after the Malheur River, which runs through the county. The word "malheur" is French for misfortune or tragedy. The name was attached to the river by French Canadian voyageur trappers working for the North West Company on the Snake County Expeditions of Donald Mackenzie as early as 1818 for the unfortunate circumstance that some beaver furs they had cached there were snatched by Indians. The river lived up to its name a second time in 1845, when mountain man Stephen Meek, seeking a faster route along the Oregon Trail, led a migrant party up the river valley into the high desert along a route that has since become known as the Meek Cutoff. After leaving the river valley the party was unable to find a water supply and lost 23 people by the time they reached The Dalles on the Columbia River.>>
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<<Lauren and Alice are talking long distance on the phone. Lauren is in an East-Coast US state which borders the Atlantic Ocean, and Alice is in a West-Coast state which borders the Pacific Ocean. Lauren asks Alice: "What time is it?" Alice replies and Lauren says: "That's really odd. It's the same time here!" How can this be?>>
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[spoiler]<<Alice is in Eastern Oregon (in Mountain time) and Lauren is in Western Florida (in Central time). It is the night that daylight-savings time changes back to standard time any time after 1:00 and before 2:00 AM.>>[/spoiler]
[quote="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Panhandle"]
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<<References to the Florida Panhandle always include the ten counties west of the Apalachicola River. These western counties also lie in the Central Time Zone (with the exception of Gulf County, which is divided between the Eastern and Central Time zones), while the rest of the state is in the Eastern Time Zone. Seaside is an unincorporated master-planned community on the Florida panhandle in Walton County. One of the first communities in America designed on the principles of New Urbanism, Seaside rose to global fame as being the main filming location of the movie The Truman Show.>>[/quote][quote="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_County,_Oregon"]
<<Malheur County is a county in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Oregon. Its county seat is Vale, and its largest city is Ontario. Malheur County is one of the few counties in the United States with two time zones. Most of the county is in the Mountain Time Zone, but a small portion in the south is in the Pacific Time Zone. The county was named after the Malheur River, which runs through the county. The word "malheur" is French for misfortune or tragedy. The name was attached to the river by French Canadian voyageur trappers working for the North West Company on the Snake County Expeditions of Donald Mackenzie as early as 1818 for the unfortunate circumstance that some beaver furs they had cached there were snatched by Indians. The river lived up to its name a second time in 1845, when mountain man Stephen Meek, seeking a faster route along the Oregon Trail, led a migrant party up the river valley into the high desert along a route that has since become known as the Meek Cutoff. After leaving the river valley the party was unable to find a water supply and lost 23 people by the time they reached The Dalles on the Columbia River.>>[/quote]