WI 48 Time Zones?

Here's a map I did of the hypothetical time zones of the United States, showing the time relative to when I started doing the clocks.

Hmm, if I were a broadcast media engineer, I'd have two television feeds:

East: UTC-4 to UTC-6
West: UTC-6.5 to UTC-8

Or, if I were deranged enough, I could try three:

East: UTC-4 to UTC-5
Central: UTC-5.5 to UTC-6.5
West: UTC-6.5 to UTC-8
 

VT45

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I live in Sydney, Australia and do quite a bit of business with folks in Adelaide, which is +9.5 GMT compared to Sydney which is +10 (excepting daylight saving).

I've found no great difficult with this, you just need to remember that it's 30 minutes behind.

Exactly. I've gone between New England and Atlantic Canada before with almost no problem. It's just like DST, but not. And here we're talking a time jump of half that.
 

JJohnson

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Personally, it would make more sense, but less viable politically; I think it would make more sense for the time zones themselves to be more sensibly drawn - such as Europe - why is it only 1 timezone for all that area? Shouldn't France and Spain be on a timezone with England? And what about the zigzags in North and South America, simply to allow states to occupy one zone or the other?

James
 
I really don't think it would be a big deal. We've dealt with NF being 30min behind as long as I can remember. (Actually, since the War of 1812 {1842 in Newfoundland}.:p) (OK, so I stole it.:p)
 
In Australia we have a 1/2 hour time zone difference between Eastern Standard Time (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory) and Central Standard Time (South Australia and the Northern Territory). CST was originally meant to be 1 hour behind EST but it was done as a compromise between different geographical regions of CST time.

But then Australia has complex system on time zones. For instance different states go on daylight savings time at different times and then go off it at different times. Some dont do daylight savings or re-introduce and then repeal it every few years.

I'm very surprised the USA has a simpler system, given that usually decisions are more decentralised in the USA than in Australia.
 
Here's a map I did of the hypothetical time zones of the United States, showing the time relative to when I started doing the clocks.

You could simplify it by using states rather than counties:

GMT-4.5: DC, Delaware, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, eastern New York and Pennsylvania

GMT-5: the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, western New York and Pennsylvania

GMT-5.5: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Tennessee, Wisconsin

GMT-6: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, eastern Texas

GMT-6.5: Colorado, the Dakotas, western Texas

GMT-7: Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming

GMT-7.5: Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, eastern Washington

GMT-8: California, Oregon, western Washington

The division takes into account population density, which is why some states are not where you might expect them to be. In the end, I think using one-hour increments is far more practical.
 
Here's a map of what that would look like.

Edit: Maybe eastern Missouri would be better in the green zone and Virginia in the red zone. The 4 Corners area would have 3 time zones.

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