The other problem is, the sun comes up so stinking early on standard time if you are on the eastern edge of your time zone and it gets dark way too early in the evening, when most people are up and about.
There’s been talk in the New England states of switching to or making an Atlantic time zone but all the wusses whine about how many people live in CT and work in NYC and oh me, oh my, it might confuse some of them. Like nobody else in the rest of the country ever works in a city nearby that’s a different time zone than where they live.
We’re in the same time zone as Michigan, it goes from Maine to Michigan, a ridiculous amount of geography.
For today, April 12, sunrise in Bangor, ME is 5:56 AM and sunset is 7:16 PM.
For Lansing MI, sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset is 8:16PM.
That’s just a ridiculous spread.
I think in some cases they should just split the difference and move it 1/2 an hour and just leave it. It’s at least a compromise of some sorts.
It's a one hour spread, which is astonishing since time zones are one hour apart. Could go for half hour time zones I suppose, but that would confuse everyone.
Standard time is Natural Time and the only “real time”...if in fact there is such a thing as “time”.