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Does anyone live and work in two different time zones?

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That would be weird to deal with.

One of our combo sales/engineering teams went to visit a customer. They were in a hotel in one time zone and the customer was in another. Showed up an hour early. Much laughs.
 
Yes, I live in central and work with clients in eastern time, mostly. I have to get up a little earlier. I find myself working later though, even though I should be "done" at 4pm. I feel bad for the woman in our company who works out of CA though.
 
I used to live in Bay Area and work in Phoenix where there is no Daylight savings time. Flew in on Monday, Flew out on Thursday's. No biggie, I guess it'd be different if I drove in and out everyday
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: darkxshade
I'm actually curious about how time zone works on the borders where one time zone ends and the other meets.
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Um, when you cross the border, you change the time.
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I'm more interested about how people who live at these borders deal. How do you know when you've crossed into another time zone? It's not like someone drew a line. If someone asks for the time, how do you respond? How do you decide which time zone to live by? How do you resolve day to day functions that work within a timeframe(Like if someone said to meet them at 4)?
 
That would be weird and confusing, especially if the work place is an hour ahead. That would mean getting up an hour earlier. Though, you'd also get home earlier. Imagine getting home at 3:30 every day. 😀 I did a shift like that (7:00-3:40) and it's actually not THAT bad getting up. No matter what, getting up is hard, period.
 
Originally posted by: darkxshade
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: darkxshade
I'm actually curious about how time zone works on the borders where one time zone ends and the other meets.
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Um, when you cross the border, you change the time.
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I'm more interested about how people who live at these borders deal. How do you know when you've crossed into another time zone? It's not like someone drew a line. If someone asks for the time, how do you respond? How do you decide which time zone to live by? How do you resolve day to day functions that work within a timeframe(Like if someone said to meet them at 4)?
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Depends on which line and where you are. Some of the lines are quite well defined. For example the state line between Alabama and Georgia divides Eastern and Central time zones. So you could live in Alabama and commute to Georgia and you'd be crossing the time line twice a day
 
I don't, but I have a friend in Indiana who has to deal with this for about half the year. He lives in a town that doesn't observe daylight savings but works in a town that does. I don't think it would matter too much if you shopped, went to church, etc. in the same town you worked in, but it would be difficult if per se your kids went to school in a different time zone than you worked in.
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
Yes, I live in central and work with clients in eastern time, mostly. I have to get up a little earlier. I find myself working later though, even though I should be "done" at 4pm. I feel bad for the woman in our company who works out of CA though.
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That's my dream right there. I don't mind starting at 630am if I get to leave at 130pm. (as an example, if I worked the same hours as the stock market.)

Rest of the afternoon = FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

This would be my perfect schedule if I had kids. And my husband had a "normal" work schedule, that way he could get the kids out of the house to school.
 
I used to do this. Lived in central and worked in Eastern. It's no biggie, you eventually get used to it. People at work talk in Eastern, people where you live talk in Central, generally.
 
I would hate to live in one time zone and work in one time zone to the East.

Now, I suppose I wouldn't mind if I worked 1 time zone to the west, because then hopefully I would be able to sleep in a bit and start work later in the morning...
 
The company I dispatch for is in the Chicago burbs. Two days a week we make deliveries to Western Michigan and parts of Indiana, which are EST. There are routinely problems, because we give arrival windows in CST.
 
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