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unusual facts about Mountain Time Zone


Mountain Time Zone

The Phoenix metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone; the largest metropolitan area that observes Mountain Daylight Time is the binational El Paso–Juárez area, closely followed by Denver, Colorado.


Black Forest Fire

In the early afternoon hours of Tuesday, June 11, 2013, beginning before 2:00 p.m. MDT, reports of a wildfire in the Black Forest area reached 9-1-1 dispatchers.

KWYB

ABC's 6:30 PM network newscast, World News with Diane Sawyer, airs at 4:30 PM on KWYB (Montana is in the Mountain Time Zone, two hours behind the East Coast.) KWYB airs Nightline one-half hour after the 10 PM local evening news ends and fills the overnight schedule with World News Now and ABC World News This Morning.

North Dakota Highway 22

The highway enters the Badlands 12 miles north of Killdeer and crosses the Little Missouri River switching from Mountain Time to Central Time.


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