>>>John, do you know the quiz about the two brothers, one living in a Pacific Ocean state and one in an Atlantic Ocean state but their clocks were only 1 hour apart?
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>>Wow! No! Enlighten me.
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>Nope, it's an exercise left for the observer. The previous discussion about Florida ought to give you a clue :-)

Barbara, how about this: Brother A lives in an Atlantic state, but on the Gulf side so he is in the Central time zone. Brother B lives in a Pacific state so he is in the Pacific zone. There is normally 2 hours difference, so when it is 2 am for Brother A it is midnight for Brother B. However, when the time changes in October, Brother A gets up at 2 am and dutifully sets his clock back 1 hour, so he is now only one hour ahead of his brother. When Brother B resets his clock 2 hours later they will once again be 2 hours apart.

BTW: In this country, daylight savings time was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin. I don't know what his reasoning was; maybe to save candles?