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What is the best time zone? (1 Viewer)
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LAUNCH
Footballguy
I like MT , but if a game starts @ 7 EST during the week most people would miss at least part of it due to work. 5:30am for EPL starts would be bad too.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
So the poll is just a regional breakout of where we are all located, correct?
17seconds
root of all aliai
The worst is Arizona because it's mountain without daylight savings. NFL games change from 11am to 10am during the season for one thing.
Worse, you never know when the hell something is on TV. If a national network says a show in on at 8 Eastern / 7 Central then what time is it on in Arizona?
If you are getting the east coast feed it could be on at 5pm or 6pm, depending on whether the rest of the country is in daylight savings. If you are getting the west coast feed it could be on at 8pm or 9pm. Living in Arizona you generally don't pay attention to daylight savings so it's not obvious if the rest of the country is on or off. Nice 4 hour window of confusion there.
Worse, you never know when the hell something is on TV. If a national network says a show in on at 8 Eastern / 7 Central then what time is it on in Arizona?
If you are getting the east coast feed it could be on at 5pm or 6pm, depending on whether the rest of the country is in daylight savings. If you are getting the west coast feed it could be on at 8pm or 9pm. Living in Arizona you generally don't pay attention to daylight savings so it's not obvious if the rest of the country is on or off. Nice 4 hour window of confusion there.
17seconds
root of all aliai
For sports I don't know why you wouldn't vote Pacific. No sport playing in the continental US is ever on too early or too late. You can see every game. Generally everything is over by 9pm. Once in a great while you may need to be up until 11pm watching something.
OK, one downside is you often miss the first quarter of MNF and TNF but I'll take that over staying up past midnight.
OK, one downside is you often miss the first quarter of MNF and TNF but I'll take that over staying up past midnight.
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Max Power
Footballguy
I didn't think about the TV show aspect and potential spoiler alerts with twitter. Sounds like the western half of the country has to fight that these days.
jhib
Footballguy
Maybe a bit of a sidetrack, but if you care about sunrise and sunset times, you also need to consider location within the time zone. My relatives in western Michigan always brag about it being light there until a later hour (about 40 min, really) compared to us in NY state.
Of course, they don't seem to get that they also have to drive to work and school in the dark much more often during the year.
Of course, they don't seem to get that they also have to drive to work and school in the dark much more often during the year.
RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
Location in the time zone and latitude make a big difference. In the shortest days of winter here it gets light at like 7:30 AM and is DARK before 5 PM. In June, it gets light really damn early and isn't legitimately dark until after 10 PM.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
So all the people voting EST have never lived outside of EST time, right?
I lived in EST for 30 years and thought it was fine until I moved to MST. Now I've seen the light and could never go back. I'm constantly calling my brother who still lives EST and asking "did you see the end of that game last night?!?!" to which he replies no way dude, I had to work in the morning.
I lived in EST for 30 years and thought it was fine until I moved to MST. Now I've seen the light and could never go back. I'm constantly calling my brother who still lives EST and asking "did you see the end of that game last night?!?!" to which he replies no way dude, I had to work in the morning.
Prince Myshkin
Footballguy
I live near the western edge of the Eastern time zone. Have family that live just across in the central time zone...no way I would trade with them. In the winter it gets dark at like 4:30. We basically get an extra hour of daylight in the evenings year-round, which is great for any outdoor activities -- from golf to yard work. Sure they get an earlier sunrise, but that doesn't have much of an impact imo. 
Jayrod
Footballguy
I have always lived in CST. At my stage of life, games are often on too late for me. My work day starts at 7 or 7:30, so 11:00-midnight is too late. I almost never caught the end of the NFL night games and now I'm missing the end of basketball games (went to bed before the end of the Bulls/Celts last night). I would be fine with the first games starting an hour earlier at 11:00 as I'm home from church by then, so I voted MST.
Max Power
Footballguy
Pretty much my take. The end of games outweighs the start. I'd rather miss the first quarter than overtime.
Mile High
Footballguy
NutterButter
Footballguy
Living in the east, I don't even bother staying up for UFC events anymore as they're typically on past 1. I hope my kids will move to colorado with me when they graduate college.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
Looks like this last NCAA tourney game tonight should be finishing up around 10:30pm EST. Plenty of time to get a good night's sleep. The first games will start around 10:30am tomorrow which means they'll be timed perfectly to be able to catch the end of about 3 or 4 games over lunch break and probably see some sweet cinderella buzzer beaters.
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