the 'time zone' thing just reminded me of something..

I have an extremely good sense of direction/where I am. Instinctively
Uncannily so, in fact.

I have only been south of the equator 2 times, in all my years traveling.
And both times - I couldn't find my way to the corner shop and back!

I had ZERO sense of direction. It has only happened twice in my life, and both times when I went south of the equator. Weird uh?
Logically, the only reason I could think of is inner ear and all that liquid, swirly stuff, going around a different direction - water, plug hole - kind of thing.)

So I'm sticking to my premise of time zones - latitude affects directional ability, and longitude affects linguistic ability!

lolol