On: Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

[eru]

The time zone restriction does nothing to keep out people who live far north or south of you, but does keep out people far east or far west.

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Unless you live in Indiana, Idaho, Oregon, or parts of Florida

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Could you please explain?

All of the (continental) US is in similar enough timezones, that whatever 3 hour window is convenient for one part is still easily accessible for the others.

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Those are all states that have multiple timezones for the same longitude. Travel North or South and you change time zones.

You can also add Arizona to the list, but for only part of the year, as Arizona and the Hopi nation do not follow daylight savings time, but the Navajo nation, which fully surrounds the Hopi, does

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Sure, but an hour or even three here or there aren't gonna make much of a difference.

Those small shifts don't transform a convenient time into 4am.

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This was in response to a comment up thread about making it limited to people in the same time zone, an imposed limitation rather than a self arising onr