Hier in Boston trauern viele Menschen um den Verlust der Sommerzeit, die in etwa einem Monat um 16:12 Uhr untergehen wird. Wäre es nicht wunderbar, eine dauerhafte Sommerzeit zu haben?
Leider gibt es viel Widerstand gegen die permanente Sommerzeit, und viele davon kommen aus 900 Landkreisen, in denen im Winter das Äquivalent der Sommerzeit und (mit Ausnahme von Arizona) die doppelte Sommerzeit im Sommer gilt.
Zeitzonen basieren auf 15-Grad-Intervallen von Greenwich, England, wodurch natürliche Sonnengrenzen zwischen den Mittelpunkten der Zeitzonen entstehen. In den Lower-48 gibt es 900 Landkreise, die sich der Zeitzone östlich der natürlichen Teilung anschließen. Dazu gehören die meisten Landkreise in Bundesstaaten wie Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota und Texas.
Wir können das Problem des frühen Sonnenuntergangs lösen, indem wir die Zeitzonengrenzen näher an die wahre Sonnengrenze verschieben und dann die Nation auf permanente Sommerzeit umstellen.
Von AdImpossible2555
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Screw it, standard time forever, and I say that as someone who lives north of Boston and east of the counties too far west
How to say you have an east coast bias without saying you have an east coast bias
Or you could just move further south if you want more daylight in winter. Late sunrises suck
Daylight Savings Time can fuck right off.
Standard Time is the only real time.
Michigan used to be Central time long long ago, but Detroit wanted to be on the same time zone as New York (the center of trade and commerce), and many did not like the 7pm summer sunsets (pre-DST) so eventually most of the state (minus the border counties with Wisconsin) flipped to Eastern time
Yep, DST forever. I’ll always take more evening daylight over early morning daylight.
No wonder I always feel like my internal clock is fighting the sun. This map explains so much.
Would love to see this map for Alaska. On the shortest day of the year, the sunset in the most southern parts of the state (Juneau, Ketchikan) is actually about 45 minutes earlier than it is in Anchorage.
Exhibit 134-A that time zones are completely arbitrary and political. Sort of like how the British Royal Society made sure that the whole meridian system begins with a line running directly through London.
Here in Wisconsin, I’m definitely not mourning the end of Daylight Savings Time. Finally, I won’t be having to get up and commute to work in the dark any more! I don’t mind having DST in the summer, but this past week was *not summer*.
>We can solve the early sunset problem by moving the time zone boundaries closer to the true solar boundary, then setting the nation onto permanent DST.
Isn’t that the same as moving the time zone boundaries *further* from the true solar time, and then setting the nation onto permanent standard time? Why describe it in such a strange way?
Wait … Boston … let’s see. Noon in Boston today is at … 11:27 EST. That explains everything. You’re attached to the time zone *west* of the one you naturally belong in, and so are trying to ruin the rest of the country’s biorhythms in order to fix your own. Shame on you!
Just pass a state law moving yourselves from Eastern Time to Atlantic Time, where you belong, and leave the rest of us alone.
I should really move to one of these red counties. I do not want the sun to set earlier than 6pm at any point of the year, but I don’t care what time sunrise is.
IMO the far northeast should be moved to the Atlantic time zone (UTC-4), the far eastern part of central time should be moved to eastern, etc. or we should observe permanent daylight savings.
I live in the eastern edge of central time and the sun setting before 5 pm for 3 months of the year is depressing, and I’m lucky enough to work from home. If I had to commute home in the dark every day for 3 months I’d probably go insane
I do not understand a single comment in this section!
Some of these will surely align with state lines? If you have a “wide” state it would be off to swap time zones there.
And yes I do know time zones can swap over counties (and have watched the [West Wing](https://youtu.be/-J1NHzQ1sgc?si=_eWVba4JoqGMr8od))
>We can solve the early sunset problem by moving the time zone boundaries closer to the true solar boundary, then setting the nation onto permanent DST.
Then we wouldn’t be using true solar time, we would be using one hour ahead of true solar time. Which is fine, but let’s be honest about what it is.
I think we should just end time changes, and then redraw time zones based on whatever seems optimal. This isn’t necessarily going to line up with „true solar time“ with 12:00 being when the sun is the highest in the sky, but there is no reason it needs to.
Standard time is horrible. DST forever.
Standing outside in the morning and waiting for the school bus in the dark sucks.
So what is the correct time to be in for Ohio? Central + standard time year round? Or central + Daylight savings?
I’ve lived in green and red counties, red is so much better for my mental health.
> Time zones are based on 15 degree intervals from Greenwich, England…
Which is quite arbitrary. So, how can you conclude the pink areas are the “wrong” time zone? If the starting point was some other place several degrees west of Greenwich, then the pink areas wouldn’t be in the “wrong” time zone.
You think this is bad, wait til you learn that there is 1 time zone for all of China.
Im from Cleveland & my fiance is from Boston, and we have mentioned more than once that Boston should be one time zone east or Cleveland one time zone west lol. Especially in the winter, you can see such a difference in how dark it is at 4:30 in Boston vs how much lighter it is in Cleveland at the same time.
Houston and San Antonio being in two different time zones is a hilarious thought.
New England should be in Atlantic Time Zone.
So flat ass Kansas belongs in Mountain Time.
Laugh in UTC+1
Nope love my GA county exactly where it is at thank you… Love we get later evenings because we are at the Western end of EST
I want whatever minimizes the number of days where it’s dark when I go to work in the morning and dark when I come home in the afternoon. Those days are depressing as fuck.
Wow! Almost half of Utah is in the wrong time zone. Oh, wait – no one actually lives in the red (besides St. George) haha
Hello from Texas and yes that is true.
If some regions are already running ahead of solar time, that’s a good argument for realigning zones back toward solar noon – not for redefining noon everywhere to 1pm. Shifting the boundary doesn’t give you more daylight – it just makes sunrise absurdly late for half the country. If you believe in solar boundaries, then you believe in Standard Time. DST explicitly abandons those boundaries – it shifts every clock one time zone east. You can’t fix time-zone drift by adopting a policy that *is* time-zone drift. Permanent DST just makes the entire country live one zone east of where it really is.
My favourite example is if one lives on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho one is an hour behind one’s neighbours to both the East and West.
The thing though these days is that more daylight in the evening makes far more sense than more daylight first thing in the morning. People in places like Cincinnati and Detroit would flip out if their winter and summer sunsets shifted to 4:15 and 8:15 as opposed to 5:15 and 9:15 like they are now.
As European, I find it odd that even inside a single state you have multiple timezones.
In Idaho we call that „Mormon Time.“
I just moved to Michigan from Alabama, and waking up at 7 a.m. to darkness takes some adjustment.
I used to travel for work to Chicago and it got dark so early in the winter. Can it be assumed the green counties bordering or very near the red counties to the left experience similar compared to green ones on the right of the red? Like does it get dark earlier in Vegas in the winter comparatively?
I wouldn’t change a thing as a Michigander. I want as much sun at the end of the day as possible