Be warned. This is a post complaining about the Eastern time zone. If you have a problem with this, please close your browser.
After spending our entire lives in Central Time, the transition to Eastern has been weird. Let’s be honest – humans are smart and we are able to adjust relatively quickly to any time zone we are in. So no big deal, right? But there are just a few things that have REALLY bugged us about moving from the eastern edge of Central Time to the western edge of Eastern Time. Trust me…it’s WEIRD.
#1 It is still pitch black at 7:15 a.m. No joke. In Nashville, I was perfectly accustomed to getting up in the dark to go work out. But LEAVING my workout in the dark? Never. No time of year did this happen. Here, I see people walking into office buildings as I drive home at 7:15 and it is PITCH BLACK OUT. Inhumane.
{proof from this morning}
#2 Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. This is just cruel. Jeopardy is supposed to be a “when you get home from work” thing. Not a “I’m settling in for the night” thing.
Along this same vein…
#3 Prime time doesn’t end until 11:00 p.m. AND Jimmy Fallon starts at 12:35. I’m sorry, I’m a grandma. These times are just impossible for me.
#4 Pacific time is THREE HOURS away. This basically guarantees that the only way we will be visiting the west coast is if we can take a full 4-5 days. Not like a weekend trip was easy from Nashville, either, but I don’t know…three hours just sounds like so much more than two hours.
#5 Our loved ones are in a different time zone, and often aren’t sure what time it is where we live (sorry families, but it’s true). Not only can I not call family or friends on my way home from work, they cannot all me past 9:00 their time (as I said earlier, I’m a grandma, I know, I’m fine with this).
But finally, I will give Eastern Time one advantage: This is the time zone people work on. It’s true. New York City time rules ALL time in this country. I haven’t noticed this that much in my day-to-day, but knowing it’s true at least makes me feel a little cooler.
Phew, okay, enough griping for today. Thanks for listening. Are strangely bothered by things that really do NOT matter in the grand scheme of things? What are they??
Hi, I live in England and we were only discussing the other day what it must be like to live in a country with multiple time zones – thanks for your account – I am really fascinated by how it is all managed. We have difficulty enough crossing the North Sea to Europe, an obvious boundary and only a ‘one hour’ time difference!! Agnes
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I am in complete agreement! This is my fifth year on eastern time, and I miss central time daily. The fact that the nightly news is on at 11 instead of 10 bugs me to my core, and I can’t stay up to watch “primetime” tv that comes on at 10!!! Glad I’m not the only one who realizes how absurd this is…however, I’m on the coast so at least I don’t have the 7:15 am darkness problem…
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