Since I grew up and spent most of my life in East Africa, I understand distances and map scales rather well.
There's a lovely chart showing Europe, China, Russia and the USA, among other countries, all fitted into Africa!

>So despite the large "member" numbers there really is only a small group of U.S. regulars that populate the majority of post's here.

Like other social media organizations, nobody deletes members who die or visit this site and decide never to come back. Some people join up without knowing what an agnostic is and run away like frightened bunnies.

Of course, let's not count what time it is is Hawaii. BTW:

3:38 PM
Central Daylight Time
Chicago (GMT-5)
2:38 PM
Mountain Daylight Time
Denver (GMT-6)
1:38 PM
Mountain Standard Time
Phoenix (GMT-7)
1:38 PM
Pacific Daylight Time
Los Angeles (GMT-7)
12:38 PM
Alaska Daylight Time
Anchorage (GMT-8)
10:38 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
Honolulu (GMT-10)

I get confused by summer and winter time, and to make things worse I usually live in Spain.

@Petter Want to get confused, try accounting for India which is a half hour from all the time zones.

That being said, I have a "world clock" app on my dumb phone which will keeps track of what time it is in different parts of the world. Without that, find out how many hours they're off from the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and do the math. You're in GMT+2.

@WonderWartHog99 The Canary islands are also at a half hour offset. Spain minus 30 minutes.

@Petter I like to watch travel shows, which frequently lists things that might shock visitors. One of the ten things that was listed for the US that shocks visitors is generally the public transportation system isn't good. Visitors should rent a car.

The major exception that shocked me was NYC, where it's best to forget the car and take the public transportation system. Believe it or shove it, there are three vehicles in NYC for every parking space. Back in 1998, while the earth was still cooling, I was shocked to see NYC parking garages advertising $430 a month for a parking space.

Thanks for updating me about the 30 minute Spanish time lag. I never entered anything in my world time app for Spain.

@WonderWartHog99 I toured western USA by coach (Greyhound) on my first visit.
For my second visit, I hired a car and meandered at will. The two between them introduced me to a swathe of the NORMAL folk who inhabit the land, not just the ones involved in the tourist industry.

@WonderWartHog99 I once wrote an article that pointed out a simple fact. For every car in a town you need 2 parking places. One for where it "lives" and another for where it intends to visit. NYC therefore has only one sixth of its optimum number of spaces.

@Petter It is only the sprawling megalopolis where one can not begin to guess where the city limit begins and ends that your rule holds true. If they have grid lock, you could have problems parking the car next to where you want to go: i.e. downtown Atlanta, Georgia. In NYC the grid lock never ends.

In the Great White North of the US you may have to alternate which side of the street you park so the snow plows can get through. There's a Lena and Ollie joke about a couple who abandoned hope on keep track of it and parked in the home's garage instead.

I've had the half day experience just trying to going from the south side of Atlanta to the north side. I refer to Atlanta traffic as anus gripping adventure. Pedestrians only zones are extremely rare.

One of the things they mentioned that shock visitors to the US is the advertised price and the price you pay is a guide post. It never includes taxes or a tip. A 15% tip is expected even with the worst service. Here in Seneca the sales tax is seven percent. Sales tax varies where you are and what you're buying.

European teens stagger backward in despair when they discover that all over the US, they can't buy alcoholic drinks. The drinking age starts at 21.