If you live at the very end of a time zone, is the next town over an hour behind? ..?

Question

As in, could you live in one time zone and work in another? Man, that would stink.

Answer 1

And to make it even more confusing, until recently, in the US, daylight savings time was an option! So, if you lived in Indiana, you might not have dst and there could be 2 hours difference.

Answer 2

that depends upon which side of the time zone you're on but yes the town will be 1 hour off your clock.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

Yep.

Answer 5

Yep.  The next town over could be an hour behind, or an hour ahead, depending upon which edge of the time zone your town is nearest.

Answer 6

yes.

actually a fun fact some towns never do the spring forward or fall back. since when were talking about time.

Answer 7

Not over an hour behind.  Exactly one hour behind.

Answer 8

It happens in quite a few places.  One of the more noticeable cases is Columbus GA, which is on the very western edge of Georgia and thus on the very western edge of the Eastern Time Zone.  In such cases the time of the nearest large city is unofficially observed.  For example, many businesses in Phenix City AL (just across the state line from Columbus, and yes, it really is spelled "Phenix" in this case) operate on Eastern time even though Alabama is in the Central time zone.

To the person who said time zones used to be optional and thus there could be two hour differences: Time zones are still optional: Arizona and Hawaii do not use them.  But the only states that have gone without DST since it was implemented were states that were just east of a time zone border (or Hawaii, which doesn't touch any other states), meaning that there were never any two-hour differences.