Originally Posted by
chrisl137
But for any idealized time zone there's an hour solar time difference from one side to the other. For real time zones in North America it's much more than that.
There's a big difference between grabbing lunch at 1p (because your brain didn't process morning rays as early as some folks further east in your time zone) and forcing yourself to call 3a "lunchtime" because someone's decreed UTC for all.