The phrase "from a different time zone" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is located in a different time zone than the speaker. Example: "I called my friend in Japan, but forgot that she was from a different time zone, so she was already asleep when I called."
If I am taking my exam away from Cambridge in a different time zone, do I need to follow the Eastern Standard Time when determining my start and end times?
Surrounded by high desert, it is isolated from the other big cities in Texas, more than 500 miles from San Antonio and Dallas, almost 700 from Houston El Pasoo is in a different time zone.
It is 600 miles from Austin and in a different time zone.
It was very early when Otto and Sticky decided to enforce the morning walk clause in their pet contracts, so I dressed in the dark, still fuzzy from a business trip to a different time zone.
The shift can be partially explained by the fact that the registration region of the Hokkaido East radar is located mainly to the east from the radar site in a different time zone (+1 h).
The Telegraph clearly works in a different time zone from the Tribune, clocking his speech at just 17 minutes.
Rest assured, parts of Scotland are already in a different time zone from England (and indeed, the rest of Scotland).
He pointed out that part of the Florida Panhandle was in a different time zone from the rest of the state.
This cool crack in what is known as I.O.N. country, where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada collide, is so deep in the back of beyond that it sits in a different time zone from the rest of the Pacific Northwest.
During the years of Soviet control, it became a city in a different time zone from the European Union, literally and figuratively: an hour later on the clock than Chelm, Krakow and Madrid, a quarter-century or so behind in other measures.
