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Fun with time zones?
I am really weirded out whenever I find a factual error in a book because I am a go-with-the-flow reader. I trust whatever the author tells me! I do not want to spend an entire book looking up facts because they sound wrong to me.
So yes, weirded out when on page six of a new book, I read "9:35 P.M. in Washington, D.C., is 4:35 P.M. in Alaska."*
And then I had to look up both a time zone map and Alaska's feelings about daylight saving time to prove that there's only a four hour difference between Alaska and the Eastern Time Zone, which I already knew.
Although I will admit that most of Alaska is actually located in the time zone behind the zone it observes.
*The book in question is Area 7 by Matthew Reilly.
So yes, weirded out when on page six of a new book, I read "9:35 P.M. in Washington, D.C., is 4:35 P.M. in Alaska."*
And then I had to look up both a time zone map and Alaska's feelings about daylight saving time to prove that there's only a four hour difference between Alaska and the Eastern Time Zone, which I already knew.
Although I will admit that most of Alaska is actually located in the time zone behind the zone it observes.
*The book in question is Area 7 by Matthew Reilly.