[matthewb0051]

I grew up in Oak Ridge Tennessee, which was part of the Manhattan Project, and in Eastern Time Zone. It is maybe 40 miles to the Central Time zone line on the way to Nashville.

My family still lives there and we have lived all over. They can never understand that we in Texas are an hour behind them. It has gotten better but they used to call at the wrong times and not understand that we were an hour behind. When we lived in El Paso it was worse because they are on Mountain Time, so 2 hours behind EST. That really made my family's collective heads explode.

The funniest was when I was stationed at Ft. Campbell Kentucky, which is just north of Nashville. My family couldn't understand that even though we were in the same state we were on different time zones.

It shouldn't surprise me though. When we lived in Hawaii, my father called my in-laws in Texas to see if we survived the tsunami that we had after Fukushima earthquake.