Even as a friend informs the New York Times of his death, Didion wonders if he could still be alive in the different time zone of Los Angeles.
Sir Arthur, at 83, however, is very much with us -- or slightly ahead, given the time zone of Sri Lanka, where he has made his home for decades.
If you're in the Mountain Time Zone of Nebraska, your closing time will be 7 p.m. and opening time will be 7 a.m.
If you're in the Central Time Zone of Nebraska, your closing time will be 8 p.m. and opening time will be 8 a.m.
Given the time constraints and season, let's try to keep ideas within six time zones of New York.
We operate over seven hundred stores in eleven time zones of Russia and the Ukraine.
The choice of Beijing to be the host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics might initially appear to give NBC the time zone problem it had last year in Sydney when 15 hours separated Australia from the Eastern time zone of the United States.
The main reason to use both networks for the Presidents Cup is the 16-hour time difference between Melbourne and the Eastern time zone of the United States.
Coverage is practically 24/7 until the Games end, although a decent chunk of it during waking hours in the USA will be re-airs due to a 14-hour time difference between where the contests are being held in South Korea and the Eastern time zone of the United States.
Nobody is seriously promoting the idea of a single time zone for Russia, which might lead to all sorts of absurdities (breakfast in the middle of the night in the Far East).
With help from curators at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Sean Street's journey into past recordings takes him backwards and forward across the many time-zones of Russia, into China's single time-zone, to Venezuela's deliberately political adoption of a half-hour time-zone and to Samoa, who recently travelled forward in time by losing a whole day.
