The point I was making there is not all states have one time zone so it is reasonable to think someone could ask for the time somewhere else because they don’t know what time it is there. Even if that somewhere else is in the same state.

I had hoped that would also demonstrate that the solution here is to just answer what was asked instead of saying “that’s not something people would ask.”

They would ask that and if you are designing a system based on what you think users won’t do then you’re gonna have a bad time.