Sentence examples for separate time zones from inspiring English sources

In the early nineteenth century, the United States had a hundred and forty-four separate time zones.

The isolation of cities and settlements across the vast state (it has four separate time zones) maintains such attitudes.

We lived in separate time zones, thousands of miles apart.

The separate time zones are in fact a metaphor for the chasm between the Uighurs and Han Chinese living in uneasy proximity in Xinjiang.

Even after a long haul flight, crossing separate time zones, no one at the airport to collect you, only three hours of sleep after the gig before having to hop on another plane... the adrenaline buzz at each show and meeting the fans is what keeps me motivated and then some".

Australia is divided into three separate time zones.[57] The East Coast of the U.S. is 13 hours behind Western Australia and 16 hours behind New South Wales and Sidney.

He took that in the groggy way people suffering jet lag do, as if the message came from a different realm, a separate time zone, another planet.

"I saw no objection to Scotland having a separate time zone, if that's what the Scottish people wanted," he said in an interview.

Since 2015, the North had declared itself a separate time zone, half an hour behind that observed in Seoul and Tokyo.

In 1968, Long Shujin, a hard-liner who was soon to be named Communist Party secretary for Xinjiang, issued a decree ordering Uighurs to stop using their own time, according to Gardner Bovingdon, a Xinjiang expert at Indiana University who recently completed a paper on the separate time zone.

Other airports he'd just as soon avoid include big sprawls like Los Angeles International: "A half-dozen terminals in separate time-zones".