Santa Claus, Indiana, and its crazy time zones
This article describes the crazy world of Santa Claus, Indiana, which operates on three time zones. The post office runs on Central time, or “slow time”. The doctor operates on Eastern time, or “fast time”. When it is 9am at the estate agent’s (fast time), it is 8am at the grocery store (slow time).
The owner of the hardware store got so fed up that he offers his customers a compromise. He opens at 6.30am, “to split the difference”.
There are lots of places that are not a whole number of hours ahead or behind GMT, but I'd not come across a place in which there are several different time zones in one town before. Weird. If you know of another example, please post it below.
Daniel H.
posted by Daniel Hill at 9:59 pm
2 Comments:
A recent article on the BBC website mentioned time zones, including the fact that Kiribati used to have two time zones, one on either side of the International Date Line, which was somewhat inconvenient.
9:41 pm
Of course, if the rumour about that Oxford college that hasn't adopted Railway Time is true, then there are two time zones in Oxford, in the same sense that the hardware store in Santa Claus creates another in that town.
6:55 am
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