Time and travels in Yunnan Province The good ol’ US of A, as we all know, makes regular use of time zones. Excluding Alaska and Hawaii, with their own special place in time, Within the ‘lower 48,’ people operate on four major time zones and all around the world a similar effort has been made to respect the traditional notion usually, but not always, the middle-of-the-sky-ish location of the sun and twelve o’clock noon like to be on the same schedule. This general concept said, when the sun hits high-noon somewhere in Georgia or New York, people out on the west coast, say San Francisco or Seattle, are just beginning to arrive to work. It makes sense to account for the 3,000 miles average distance from east to west coast and the time the sun takes
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