Growing up in the Sacramento, California area, it was explained to me that New York was three hours ahead because the sun rose and set earlier there, since they were on the east coast. I knew that San Francisco was a little further west than Sac, so the sun would set a few minutes later there compared to Sac. Therefore, ther must be a few minutes time difference between SF and Sac. For some reason, I thought it was a continual time zone change across the U.S. based on the sun, not broken into time zones like "eastern," "central," "mountain," and "pacific." (Air travel is tough enough as it is, can you imagine if this was the case?)
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I used to believe that every country in the world had the same time. Guess I didn't consider time zones eh?— what are time zones again
- That there was an underground tunnel linking New York to San Francisco.— Christophe Chang
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- I thought the big hand was for the hour and the smaller one was for the minutes until i was in third grade.— Time Challenged