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What time zone in the USA is better to live in, Eastern, Central or Pacific?

In spite of what Jonathan Pickens said, the Central time zone is NOT pre-empted or tape delayed. Shows are on at the exact same time. If it comes on at 8:00 Eastern, it will be on at 7:00 Central. (In this manner, roughly 70% of the U.S. population sees the show on it’s first airing.)The same show will come on for the roughly 3% of the population living in the Mountain time zone at 7:00, or one hour later. The roughly 27% living in the Pacific time zone will see the show at 8:00, or on a three hour delay from the initial time.Incidentally, most of Alaska will see it at the same time (7:00 there) and then Hawaii will get it at 7:00 which is one hour later than that (or four hours after the initial showing on the east coast). This is less than 1% of the American population.The exceptions to this are generally live sporting events.

When going east, do you subtract one hour for each time zone through which you pass?

Subtract one hour? No…you would set a clock ahead one hour for each 15° of longitude one passes through when heading east so as to largely keep in sync with local (read solar) time. As the legend at the bottom of the map below indicates, hour offsets increase going eastward. This dictate, however, deals with the general case of net time change. As far as time zones (both named and nautical) are concerned, they are nowhere near so regular as that. They typically do not conform to that nicety. Rather they usually span either much more or much less than 15°. Plus their boundaries can be quite contorted. Still…when back at your starting point things will balance out.In this regard there is an interesting plot device in the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days (Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia). As Phileas Fogg girdles the Earth (from west to east) he assiduously sets his watch ahead one hour each time his party travels another fifteen degrees of longitude…so as to have it synchronized with local (solar) time. He then uses that passage of time in his calculation of how many days his voyage took. At the book’s denouement he thinks that he finished just past his eighty-day limit. What he failed to realize (until he found out the date) was that, in fact, only 79+ days had passed!

If you lived on the border of two time zones, which time would you follow and why?

There's only 4 countries really that have different time zones within it's own borders: the US, Canada, Russia, and Australia. Looking at time zone maps of each respective nation, generally the pattern is that a time zone border is drawn in extremely low density area so usually that means agricultural farmers (which probably won't really need to interface with ppl in a meeting time capacity.) Generally, their work is based on solar time.That brings the most interesting time zone border: that which is between the Eastern Time & Central Time in the US. While it extends into Canada, the population density farther north resolves itself into the general pattern of agricultural living. So, there's Chicago, Cincinnati, and surrounding areas. I wonder if Nashville also is privy to such a time divide. Generally, the less populated area follows the time zone of the numerically superior district. Like, I believe parts of NW Indiana like Gary, Indiana follow Chicago time. Usually, timezones aren't drawn dividing 1 populated area: would create too much confusion.

How fast should a plane fly westward so that the time will not "move"?

Excellent answers so far, but they really deal with keeping up with the rotation of the earth relative to the sun rather than keeping up with "time". This is certainly part of it, but it also depends where, within the departure time zone you start and where, within the destination time zone, you finish.For example, if you are at the western edge of a time zone and traveling westward, you could theoretically move backwards in time just by traveling a few miles at a very low speed to a destination in the eastern edge of the destination time zone.So, in this case, the speed would be the distance between points in two different time zones divided by the number of time zone boundaries traversed. And, just like division by zero, it is not possible to keep up with time while remaining within a single time zone.So, if traveling between cities 800 km apart, they could, in theory, be zero, 1 or 2 time zones away (they don't have to exactly east-west). If they were in the adjacent time zone, you would need to travel 800 km/h. If they were two time zones apart, you would only have to travel 400 km/h to have time remain the same as when you left. ... and you would have to be in the air for exactly the number of hours as time zone boundaries traversed, or you would land either minutes before or after the time that you left.