Florida Time Zones

I’ve lived in Florida my entire life and there is one universal truth about the rest of the country, heck even the rest of Florida, that I’ve come to understand. People have trouble with time zones if it messes with their sense of geography. What do I mean by this? Easy, most people think time zones are placed on the boundaries of states. This is so not true and it isn’t just Florida that has multiple time zones.

Yes, Florida has two time zones. It’s ok, I know you are shocked. Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone but a little (relatively) portion of the panhandle is actually in the Central Time Zone. You wouldn’t believe how often I have to explain this. When I worked in an insurance our main branch was in central Florida and they were always getting irked because we weren’t ‘open’ when they were. Let’s not even go into how difficult it was to get someone insured after 4p.m Central because everyone at the main branch was long gone.

So the lesson for today is, time zones and state lines don’t always go together. I state has many different kinds of borders, no matter what you were taught in 7^th grade Geography.

Photo Credit: Skirsner

August 3rd, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Uncategorized | (0)