โฐ Time Zones
ํ์ค ์๊ฐ๋
One interesting thing about the U.S.A. is that it is divided into different time zones. If we take into account all of the territory of the U.S., there are 9 time zones! However, most Americans are familiar with the four time zones of the contiguous United States, which doesnโt include Hawaii, Alaska, or its other territories.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ ์ค ํ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด์ง๋ง ๋ช ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ๋๋ก ๋๋์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ํ ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด ๋ฌด๋ ค 9๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ๋๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํด์! ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ ํ์์ด, ์๋์ค์นด ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ ์ํ ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋์ง ์์ ๋ณธํ ์ 4๊ฐ ์๊ฐ๋์ ๋ ์ต์ํฉ๋๋ค.
From east to west, the time zones are: the Eastern Time Zone, Central Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone, and Pacific Time Zone. Alaska and Hawaii also have their own time zones. For the most part, each state follows the same time zone. However, some states are split into two different time zones!
๋์ชฝ์์ ์์ชฝ์ผ๋ก, ์ฐจ๋ก๋ก ๋๋ถ ํ์ค์, ์ค๋ถ ํ์ค์, ์ฐ์
ํ์ค์, ํํ์ ํ์ค์๊ฐ ์์ด์. ์๋์ค์นด์ ํ์์ด๋ ์์ฒด ์๊ฐ๋๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ค ์ฃผ๋ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ๋๋ก ๋๋์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ ํด์!
To make it even more confusing, many states in the U.S. still follow Daylight Savings Time. This is when you set your clock forward by one hour in the spring and back by one hour in the winter. Historically, this was used to make better use of the daylight hours. Especially when people were mostly farmers, they wanted to get the most out of the daylight.
๋์ฑ ํท๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ง์ ์ฃผ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋จธํ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ํํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด์์. ์๋จธํ์์ ๋ด์๋ ์๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ ์๊ฐ ์๋น๊ธฐ๊ณ ๊ฒจ์ธ์๋ ํ ์๊ฐ ๋ค๋ก ์กฐ์ ํ๋ ์ ๋์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฎ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฌ์ฉ๋์์ด์. ํนํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ก ๋์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ์์ ์๋ ๋ฎ ์๊ฐ์ ์ต๋ํ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
These days, many people work in offices, and even farms have very effective lights, so most countries around the world do not follow DST anymore. In fact, Hawaii and Arizona have stopped following it altogether. Iโm sure more states will follow in the future.
์์ฆ์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ฌด์ค์์ ์ผํ๊ณ , ๋์ฅ์์๋ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์กฐ๋ช
์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์์ ๋ ์ด์ DST๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅด์ง ์์์. ์ค์ ๋ก ํ์์ด์ ์ ๋ฆฌ์กฐ๋์ฃผ๋ DST๋ฅผ ์์ ํ ์ค๋จํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฃผ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค.
So, how do these time zones affect Americans? For the most part, they donโt unless you travel. You have to pay attention to the time changes while you drive or fly to different parts of the country. It also makes celebrating the New Year very interesting because New York reaches midnight much faster than the West Coast. So, keep in mind when you travel in the U.S., the time may change on you!
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฐ ์๊ฐ๋๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น ๊น์? ์ฌํ์ ๋ ๋์ง ์๋ ํ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋ณ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง, ์ด์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง์ญ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ํ ๋๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋ณํ์ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ธ์ฌ์ผ ํ์ฃ . ์ด๋ฐ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ํด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ ์ผ์ด ๋์ฑ ์ฌ๋ฐ์ด์ง๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ด์์ ์๋ถ ํด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ํจ์ฌ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋๋ฌํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํํ ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ๋ ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊ผญ ๊ธฐ์ตํ์ธ์! |