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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Billings, Montana
Bosie, Idaho
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Flagstaff, Arizona
Rapid City, South Dakota
Tempe, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Calgary, Alberta(Canada) 4th largest city in Canada after Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto city population is 1.3 million residents. The city is 200 miles or 3 hours 10 mins from USA Montana state line.
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Originally Posted by cpomp
Off the top of my head (US only), forgive me if there are major omissions...
Top 5 in general order of power/influence/importance...
Bold are my favs...
And shout outs to top tier secondary cities...
Eastern TimeZone ( 12 'noon)
New York (by far nationally)
Boston
Washington DC Philadelphia
Miami or Atlanta
(Shout outs to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Detroit, Indy, Cleveland, Cincinnati)
Central TimeZone (11 a.m) Chicago
Houston
Dallas
Minneapolis
Austin?
(Shout outs to Nashville, San Antonio, Kansas City, New Orleans, St. Louis)
Mountain TimeZone (10 a.m) Phoenix
Denver
Salt Lake City
... drawing a blank?
Pacific TimeZone (9 a.m)
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle San Diego
Las Vegas
Use Critical Thinking Proficiency to Ascertain & Postulate the Top 5 Influential Cities in Each Listed Time Zone. Covering the Bulk of North America.
Metric: The TimeZone. A More Cleancut Concise Streamline and Direct Unit of Measurement Less Prone to Arbitrary Interpretation.
For this Activity, Rank The Top Five Influential/Important cities in Time Zone Tiers based upon Tourism, Transportation, Economic, Demographic, Industrial, Institutional and Cultural Indicators of Influence & Significance.
-Secondary cities: Since Some Zones are Sparsely populated and others Densely populated, Secondary Cities are those that are Significantly or at least Marginally Smaller or Less Influential than the top 5.
Select 1 timezone, Your favorite timezones, 3 timezonez, Or All 4 TimeZones
It's Time for TimeZones, Let's have A Timely Debate…
Eastern TimeZone ( 12 'noon) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone
Most Important City? NYC
2nd Ranked City? DC
3rd Ranked City? Boston/Toronto
4th Ranked City? ATL
5th Ranked City? Philly
Central TimeZone (11 a.m) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Time_Zone
Most Important City? Chicago
2nd Ranked City?n Dallas-Fort Worth
3rd Ranked City? Houston
4th Ranked City? Minneapolis
5th Ranked City? Austin
walker1962: Phoenix is in the Mountain Time Zone. You'll need to revise your lists in both it and the Pacific Time Zone. (See my comment above about how remaining on Standard Time year-round doesn't remove it from its time zone.)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Billings, Montana
Bosie, Idaho
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Flagstaff, Arizona
Rapid City, South Dakota
Tempe, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Calgary, Alberta(Canada) 4th largest city in Canada after Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto city population is 1.3 million residents. The city is 200 miles or 3 hours 10 mins from USA Montana state line.
I think it's funny everyone is forgetting Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Which seems alright, for a smaller isolated smaller city(at least what I've street viewed of it) in western Nebraska.
Missoula, Montana should've been mentioned for this thread, as well.
I think it's funny everyone is forgetting Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Which seems alright, for a smaller isolated smaller city(at least what I've street viewed of it) in western Nebraska.
Missoula, Montana should've been mentioned for this thread, as well.
Scottsbluff is pretty tiny. The micropolitan area is around 40k. Casper, WY, is bigger.
1. New York (also applies nationally)
2. Washington DC (#4 nationally)
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. (tie) Miami (capital of the Caribbean)
5. (tie) Atlanta
Add Canada here and the tie for fifth place becomes a three-way one with Toronto; Montreal gets added as a sixth secondary city.
Central Time Zone
Here, I think, is where this "timely" comparison breaks down, as it does in the Eastern Time Zone to a similar extent. The north-south divide IMO matters as much as the chronological one, for most of the cities in both of the two easterly time zones have influences that don't cross that divide.
1. Chicago (#3 nationally)
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul
3. Houston
4. Dallas-Fort Worth
5. Kansas City (it's the one large metropolis for a large part of the Great Plains. Texas' three large metros in this time zone suffer IMO by having to compete against each other as well as those in the rest of the nation's midsection
Secondary: Austin, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Omaha, St. Louis
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Add Canada in here and Las Vegas gets bumped to secondary by #5 Vancouver.
Just because a state doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time does not kick it out of its time zone. Phoenix remains in the Mountain Time Zone; it's just on MST year-round rather than on MDT from April through November. (Indiana for many years also did not observe DST but does now.)
Add Phoenix back to that list of top cities in the Mountain Time Zone. Agreed that it's harder to come up with a list of Top 5 and top secondary cities in that time zone because there are so few large metros. But if Canada is also part of the mix, you can add Edmonton and Calgary to the list.
I'm assuming that the "secondary" metros aren't places that might be considered satellites of a larger nearby city, like Newark, NJ (New York) or Worcester (Boston) or Wilmington, DE (Philadelphia), but rather smaller metros with some influence over their hinterlands.
My list, formatted like cpomp's. Secondary metros are listed alphabetically:
Scottsbluff is pretty tiny. The micropolitan area is around 40k. Casper, WY, is bigger.
I realize Casper is a little bigger. But am just saying neither of them are that big. Both places are their own micropolitan area, since they have(per what I see on flightconnections.com ) puddle jumper flights to a bigger city.
Scottsbluff's airport has one flight to Denver, while Casper's airport has a flight to Denver, and another to Salt Lake City. Side note that I only didn't mention Rapid City, SD earlier, since others beat me to saying that one. To be honest, Mountain Time Zone doesn't have as many populated cities as other time zones do.
walker1962: Phoenix is in the Mountain Time Zone. You'll need to revise your lists in both it and the Pacific Time Zone. (See my comment above about how remaining on Standard Time year-round doesn't remove it from its time zone.)
]Eastern TimeZone[/b] ( 12 'noon) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone
Most Important City? NYC
2nd Ranked City? DC
3rd Ranked City? Boston
4th Ranked City? ATL
5th Ranked City? Philly
Central TimeZone (11 a.m) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Time_Zone
Most Important City? Chicago
2nd Ranked City?n Dallas-Fort Worth
3rd Ranked City? Houston
4th Ranked City? Minneapolis
5th Ranked City? Austin
Lol Louisville, C-Bus, and Charlotte are secondary? Detroit's over there wondering if it's chopped liver while forgotten in EST lol.
Well, since I also need to move Nashville into its time zone, swap it out for Detroit. And like walker1962, that means I need to revise two time zones:
Eastern Time Zone
1. New York (also applies nationally)
2. Washington DC (#4 nationally)
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. (tie) Miami (capital of the Caribbean)
5. (tie) Atlanta
Add Canada here and the tie for fifth place becomes a three-way one with Toronto; Montreal gets added as a sixth secondary city. Also, while Ohio's other 2 C's — Cleveland and Cincinnati — remain significant centers, I do think Columbus has passed both.
Central Time Zone
Here, I think, is where this "timely" comparison breaks down, as it does in the Eastern Time Zone to a similar extent. The north-south divide IMO matters as much as the chronological one, for most of the cities in both of the two easterly time zones have influences that don't cross that divide.
1. Chicago (#3 nationally)
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul
3. Houston
4. Dallas-Fort Worth
5. Kansas City (it's the one large metropolis for a large part of the Great Plains. Texas' three large metros in this time zone suffer IMO by having to compete against each other as well as those in the rest of the nation's midsection
Secondary: Austin, Nashville, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, St. Louis
Add Canada and Mexico and Mexico City knocks all the cities in the primary list down one spot and Kansas City into the secondary ranks. Oklahoma City then falls out of the secondary five.
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