>>>>>>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 :-)
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>>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>Pretty close, Ross. Now give me the states!
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>Well, for the Atlantic state, I guess the best answer is Florida, because its east coast qualifies it as an Atlantic state, although Brother A would have to live over on the western edge that is in the Central Time Zone. For the Pacific state, it could be any of the three--California, Washington, Oregon.

Close, but only one of them actually spreads across 2 time zones.

>I tried to think of a time-zone-related puzzle that I could send back to you but I'm afraid I didn't come up with a very good one. There are two brothers who live in the same time zone, and both their clocks are set to the correct time. But each clock displays a different time. How can this be? (This one isn't very good because I made it up.)
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>Wait a minute, I thought of an old puzzle. A man has a grandfather clock that chimes the hours, and chimes once on the half hour. As he walks into his house, he hears it chime once. A half hour later he hears it chime once. Another half hour later he hears it chime once. Yet another half hour later he hears it chime once. Thinking it is broken, he decides to go to the clockmaker and and he is leaving he hears the clock chime once. The clockmaker explains that the clock is functioning correctly. Why?

Hmm... I like Alan's answer, since it fits the theme of the thread, but my solution is that he walks into the house at the last chime of midnight (or noon), then hears 12:30, 1:00, 1:30 (single chimes) and leaves at the first chime of 2:00.

Barbara