[Fictionary] SLEECH reminder

[J-J Cote]

When they named the time zones, maybe they didn't figure much of anybody 
would want to live out west anyway, so they didn't bother with two of 
them out there and Central was central.

But what I really want to know is this: when I was a kid*, there would 
be TV shows announced as being on at e.g. "8 PM, 7 PM Central".  And I 
always wondered what time the show would be on in the Mountain and 
Pacific zones.  8 PM, and therefore two or three hours later than us on 
the east coast?  If so, then why did only Central get it advanced?  Why 
not the others?  Or at least Pacific matching Mountain?  Or did they not 
have TVs west of Kansas?  I understand it was pretty wild territory out 
there in those days.  Maybe Hutch would know, he's nearly as old as I am 
and grew up in Colorado.

*And maybe still now, I wouldn't really know because I've never owned a 
TV, and lived in a house that had one in about 13 years.

Jean-Joseph

On 9/17/2011 9:54 PM, Josh Smift wrote:
> PA>  I recently visited California, stopping in Phoenix. That got me
> PA>  thinking. We have four time zones in the Lower 48, called Eastern,
> PA>  Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Eastern and Pacific are clear enough, but:
> PA>  *How can one of four equally spaced things be central?
>
> Well, they're not equally spaced -- by miles, Central is somewhat more
> central than anything else, and by number of states, there are actually
> more states in the one time zone *east* of Central than in the two time
> zones west of Central.
>
> PA>  *There are mountains in the east and mountains in the west.
>
> As others have pointed out, not big ones. :^)
>
>                                        -Josh (irilyth at infersys.com)
>