" The state of Illinois contained twenty-seven different time zones, Wisconsin thirty-eight. In Pittsburgh the train station had six clocks, and each one showed a different time. When a clock struck noon in Washington, D.C., the time was 12:08 in Philadelphia, 12:12 in New York, and 12:24 in Boston. "

― Matthew Goodman , Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World