Whatever the reason, I'm enjoying the extra daylight in the evening. The US didn't have time zones until 1883. Before that every town and village kept their own time according to the local position of the sun. The railroads pushed to establish official time zones in the US so they could publish sensible schedules for the trains. In the past, whenever I needed to call someone in Indiana at a certain time I had to google it first to get one of the sites that explained the five different "time zones" in that state (Eastern, Central, follows daylight savings or doesn't...). Now at least there are only two zones in IN.
Oh that's right, I forgot about that. Most of the state did the EST thing all year. But then there were those sections that observed central time. I think they in the north and south western tips. The north western tip dealt a lot with Chicago, so that only made sense. I want to say there was a part in the south eastern corner near Cincinnati that did EDT too. But yeah, none of that stuff anymore.
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The US didn't have time zones until 1883. Before that every town and village kept their own time according to the local position of the sun. The railroads pushed to establish official time zones in the US so they could publish sensible schedules for the trains.
In the past, whenever I needed to call someone in Indiana at a certain time I had to google it first to get one of the sites that explained the five different "time zones" in that state (Eastern, Central, follows daylight savings or doesn't...). Now at least there are only two zones in IN.
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