Puzzle time - the cross country zoom call

[jon-nyc]

You're in an east-coast US state and having a zoom call with someone in a west coast US state (both contiguous continental US). Yet it's the same time at both ends of the call.

How is this possible?

[Klaus]

Terrible latency.

[Klaus]

I noticed you said "same time" but not "same date".

[jon-nyc]

It would be both. Same time, same date.

[Klaus]

Maybe two places that fit the criteria have only a 1h time difference that would be bridged during the shift to daylight saving time?

[jon-nyc]

Yeah that's the crux of it. The western tip of FL is in central time (GMT-6) and the eastern bit of Oregon is in mountain time (GMT-7).

I was going to rephrase the question to something like 'To the extent possible, tell me where you are, where the other person is, and the date and time?"

But I thought that would give too much of a hint.

[jon-nyc]

[taiwan_girl]

Somewhat related but I am always amazed at how big Russia is. Eight time zones across the country!!

[jon-nyc]

I took a couple of graduate courses from Khruschev’s granddaughter (ya rly).

She used to comment often about the Soviet Union having 11 time zones.

She said it in the same vein as DeGaulle commenting that no one can govern a country with 150 cheeses.

[Axtremus]

Actually, if two people are having an interactive call with one another, then they are in doing it in "the same time."

Humans may have created different notations to express date/time differently by different timezones, but the two people talking to each other do so "at the same time" regardless of timezone. Under the hood, I bet Zoom uses UTC to run and coordinate everything in their system, so when expressed in UTC, any two people attending the same Zoom session always do it "at the same time."

[jon-nyc]

DM me your address, I have something to mail you.

(j/k)

[Klaus]

@Axtremus said in Puzzle time - the cross country zoom call:

Actually, if two people are having an interactive call with one another, then they are in doing it in "the same time."

Humans may have created different notations to express date/time differently by different timezones, but the two people talking to each other do so "at the same time" regardless of timezone. Under the hood, I bet Zoom uses UTC to run and coordinate everything in their system, so when expressed in UTC, any two people attending the same Zoom session always do it "at the same time."

Captain Obvious misses the point

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time - the cross country zoom call:

DM me your address, I have something to mail you.

A few trinkets to commemorate this historic time of our country wouldn’t be a bad idea.