James Cox Chambers is the grandson of James M. Cox, who built a U.S. newspaper chain after buying the Dayton Evening News in 1898. He became a politician, serving first as an Ohio state representative, then as governor.
What's the time in Orlando, Florida? Orlando is in the Eastern Time Zone. Click here to see the exact time in Orlando now.
Going strictly by meridians all of Florida should be in the Central Time Zone, but the railroads wanted all of the US east coast to be in the same time zone every location west of Washington, DC located on the east coast was dumped into the Eastern Time Zone, which, of course includes all of Florida except a few counties in the Florida panhandle.