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Time Zone War

Time Zone War

Updated Nov 01, 2023 at 02:34PM EDT by Don.

Added Oct 18, 2019 at 07:13AM EDT by Philipp.

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About

Time Zone War refers to a series of ironic memes in which various time zones, primarily in the US, are compared against each other, based on the premise that one time zone is superior to the others.

Origin

On October 27th, 2018, iFunny user Doxxyl posted a This Post Was Mady by X Gang meme about the US Central Time Zone being superior to the Eastern Time Zone,[1] with the post receiving over 2,000 smiles in one year (shown below).


EASTERN TIMEZONE GANG B LIKENH МA NY RI MADE BY WI MT MI WY PA IA NE OH IN IL ww Co MO KS KY OH IL IN TN CENTRAL TIMEZONE GANG NM GA AL мо UHHHHITS RGETTING PRETTY MS TAL LATE-BETTER GO FL ТО ВED

Spread

On January 1st, 2019, iFunny user StubbedYourPoe posted a similar meme pitching Eastern Time Zone inhabitants against those residing in the Pacific Time Zone.[2] The post received over 1,500 smiles in one year (shown below).


Imagine Living In 2018 WASHINGTON OREGON IDAH This Post Was Made By MPS warsav NEW YORK WIGAN PENNSYLVANIA NEW SERSEY OHIC PELAWARE WASHINGTON D.ce WEST IRGIBIA AA MARYLAND NEV VIRGINIA BETUCKY NORTH CAROLINA ESSEE SOUTH CAROLINA ATLANTIC OCEAN ABAMA GECRGIA FLORIDA East Coast Gang d.com ICO HAMAS CALIFORNIA A 1 PACIFIC OCEAN

The format saw no significant spread until on October 15th, 2019, Redditor Rtrif3 posted a meme following the format to /r/okbuddyretard subreddit,[3] gaining over 3,400 upvotes in three days (shown below, left). On the same day, Redditor ZXR03 reposted Doxxyl's meme to the subreddit,[4] gaining over 5,800 upvotes in two days. In the following days, more memes following the format were posted in the subreddit (examples shown below, center and right).[5][6]


F--- YOU THIS MEMEWAS MADE BY EASTERN STANDARD TIME GANG CENTRAL STANDARD TIME CENTRAL TIME LOSERS BELIKE L. THIS MEMEWAS MADE BY THE EASTERN TIME GANG WHY ARE YOU AWAKE SO EARLY IM TIRED AMERICALOSERSBELIKE Bangor ME VT NH NY 1 an Seattle Tacoma WeriahtIas. om ND eur Alene WA мT Fargo MN Portland Bismarck Helena Iron* River Bowman ALLUNIFY UNDERONE TIMEZONE .Billings OR ID SD Saint Paul MI WI Crowley Sioux Falls Idaho Falls Rapid City Detroit Madison WY IA Cleve Chicago Gary Des Moines Cheyenne ScottsbluffN CA Indianapolis Lincoln Reno Salt Lake City IN Kansas City NV IL Evansville Saint Louis San Francisco Denver GLORY TO KIJING PING Goodland Le UT Bowling KY Green Las Vegas Dodge KS City Co NC Raleigh мо TN Knoxville Nashville Wilmington ок Los SC Columbia Angeles AZ Oklahoma City Little Rock Albuquerque Amarillo San Atlanta Diego Phoenix Birmingham AR Savannah NM GA MS тX AL Tucson Dallas Jackson LA Jacksonville AK El Paso Austin ITS 5PM HERE BUT 8PM HERE SORRY BROCANT PLAY FORTNITE 2 WITH YOU MOM WANTS METOGOTOBED

Following the resurgence of the format on Reddit, starting on October 16th, iFunny users bigmacwithcheese[7] and others posted Time Zone War memes on the platform.

Various Examples


MFW WHEN SHE SAYS SHES FROM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME ZONE Imagine having to get up an hour earlier This post was made by the Centalstandardtime gang Eastern Time Zone STANDARD TIME ZONES OF THE WORLD -10 +8 +11 12 +3 +9 +10 +12 -11 OCEAN ARCTIC IMAGINE NOT LIVING OCEAN ARCTIC zMA ZEMLYA THIS POST WAS MADE BY U.S. TLAND O Dermark -9 R U rekaterabur fomek Novosibirsk smara KAZAKHSTAN ReENISTAN NORTH SPALY -8 TAINSTA UNITED STATES aseington D.C TURKEY 1 PA ATLANTIC. Teran IRAN Kalal rCISTA +41+5 OCEAN OCEAN atas -11 e30AY PAKISTAN ALGERIA LIBYA EGYPT foMexice MEXICO +5% SAUDI U.S HMARAN 10 T-10 INDIA ARABIA 4 AZIL SUDAN NIGER MALI Arabian CRITREA Kisartoun CHAD THESENEGAL NCARA ouINEA GINEA Caacas t NIEHIA 50UTH Lagcs Toco Enoor. poots COLOMBIA SUMALLA alro Or THE ANG hasaJcono lsh Iraten THE GMT GANG IN THE CENTRALISED TIMEZONE AUSTRALhA +9% +8% D-10% Sanli Buenas Alres Melboune Tasan Scale 1:85,000,000 at 0 Miller Cylindrical Projection French Southem and Antarctic Lands RANCT NEW ZEALAND 1O Kmeters 1.30 -11 1.00 2:00 300 14.00 15:00 1700 2000 21 00 23:00 24.00 00:00 -12 +7 -10 -8 +10 +11 WEST EAST International Date Line
Eastern time zoners when you Tell them they cant eat yOur baby WHAT'S THAT EASTERN STANDARD TIME? MADE BY CENTRAL STANDARD GANG WE COULDNT HEAR YOU FROM THE FUTURE PACIFIC TIME ZONE GANG BE LIKE MT OR ID NV UT CA AZ NI YEAH-IT'S NOON

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External References

[1] iFunny – Doxxyl's Post

[2] iFunny – StubbedYourPoe's Post

[3] Reddit – God I f--king HATE central standard time

[4] Reddit – god i fr*ckn HATE eastern standing time😤😤

[5] Reddit – Love him or hate him

[6] Reddit – TOO LATE TO PLAY FORTNITE 2

[7] iFunny – bigmacwithcheese's Post

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I hate how timezones are named, I've seen announcements for stuff where you look up the timezone on google so you can convert it and google just shrugs. Timezone names need to be standardized or at least tell me also in GMT like GMT -8 or whatever.

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