[JRandomFreeper]

That is crazy. Southern States don't want or need what Northern states need. The real sunrise/sunset divide is north/south, not east/west.

Each state should be able to choose.

Just one more place where Congress tries to do something, screws it up, and wants to either continue or more government.

I'm with you, let the states choose what is best for them, and put the federal government back in a tiny, broke, non-meddling box.

/johnny

[hlmencken3]

Absolutely right. The father north, the more the day/night split is. Less reason for DST the farther south.

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting observation about north vs. south.

I've actually found that east-west time issues can be important when you live at the edge of a time zone. This has nothing to do with DST, but it's worth noting that if you live in a place like Fort Wayne, Indiana you are about 650 miles west of New York City. Tomorrow, the sun will rise in New York at 6:56 AM. In Fort Wayne, it will rise at about 7:40. There's almost a 45-minute difference between these two simply because Fort Wayne is so far west in the time zone.

I suspect a lot of the push for DST came from cities that are at the eastern ends of a time zone because the sun sets there "early" compared to the rest of the time zone. Places like New York City, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago are among the big cities that are very far east in their respective time zones.