So I understand that there are time zones and the time at any given moment varies across locations, BUT is there a more subtle difference from place to place? For example, does southern California and northern California have like a time difference of a couple seconds or something like that? Is every location, no matter how far from each other, slightly different? Because, for me, it doesn’t make sense that there is just some line that you cross and all of a sudden you’re 1 hour ahead or 2 hours ahead etc.
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When you are on the phone with someone, are you talking to them at the same time or at different times? 5 minutes is always 5 minutes no matter where you are. Time zones are set by humans to match daylight hours with time in the day- more or less so noon is when the sun is directly overhead. We have to maintain consistently so we can’t say it’s 12 here and next door it’s 12:01, no one would know what time it is. We group them into zones into where it makes the most sense. It literally is an imaginary line where you have to set the clock forward, so you can match everyone else in the area.
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