Daylight Savings Timme - A plot to Save Barry Young?

[onemarketbore]

If you look at time zones, the divide between eastern/central would naturally fall on the Miss. River.

There should be another time zone divide running through about Albany, New York for everything east of that.
Instead, we have a disproportionately large "eastern" time zone that reaches way out west.
In the middle of zones , there's not much of an issue, but at the edges there is dissatisfaction.

Sorry, but this post has been bothering me since I first read it.

First of all, why would a time zone follow a natural boundry, when all other times zone borders follow political boundries? I mean OK, sure the Mississippi River may be "one" natural boundry, but where would we put the next one, and the next one after that? How about over the oceans where there are no natural boundries? And what about metropolitan areas like St. Louis, or Minneapolis St. Paul? I dont think these places would take too kindly to having a time zone smash strait through their metro.

Second, "this is what lead me to actually post" So we should draw a line "somewhere around Albany NY" because the eastern timezone is too large? Using the line of Albany "We could go with the Hudson River to use a natural boundry", even if you completely ignore the Atlantic Time Zone starting 315-330miles to the east, making it way to small an area for its own time zone. Again, would the people of Boston, or say Manhattan "Techincally east of the Hudson" be OK with now shifting an hour off the rest of the east coast? What about commuters from NJ, etc? If anything the boundry should return East. After all, Detroit used it political influence to shift into the Eastern Time Zone so it could be on the same time as New York. "What that has to do with building cars is beyond me" Even Chicago considered it, but realized it just wouldnt work.

To try to return to the origonal thread, I agree with the posters that say AZ should be fully included in the Mountain Zone to resolve all of these time issues. I could swear that I read somewhere the reason AZ didnt switch was due something with energy consumption. But frankly, I have as much knowledge on the AZ subject as some one from AZ has about the East.

 

[Tom Wells]

Hmmmm.. I'm just pointing out that's it's incredibly subjective, as other posts illustrate.

Yes, if there were such a division the NYC area, it would be exactly as disruptive as it is and always has been
for those who live near such politically decided divisions.

I would have liked to have been on eastern time when I lived in Indiana, but the nearness to Chicago
put me on central time, and following DST, while the majority of Indiana did not do DST.


Much wrangling has been done to move the lines to try to satisfy the most people, but that's clearly always going
to be inopportune for some people, and the further north you go, the more it becomes an issue, both in
daily convenience and politically.

 

[DrAkbar]

Zonies did try DST for a year, but it proved as unpopular as the latest Rosie O'Donnell show. Here's what happened back in 1967 : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7829863 As far as Nurse Jeff and I go, we'd just as soon have one less hour of searing sun in the afternoon and one more hour of darkness to post our nonsense wisdom on RI

 

[ajhenderson]

Again....

For those of you new to the Valley or who have no long-term memory, KFYI once carried Rush live during the entire year. That means he started at 9 AM for part of the year and 10 AM the other half. It was not a good idea. People want to know when their shows will be on and that time needs to be consistent throughout the year. Yes, KNST carries Rush live (or used to, I dunno now) and KKNT changes times, too. It's dumb. KFYI isn't programmed to cater to the .01% of people who might call Rush, they want to be able to say he's on at 10 AM no matter what. Barry has nothing to do with it.

Is there a "like" button I can push? Consistency is key. Caller interaction is pointless. So tired of hearing hosts and radio types who talk about callers as if it's a "forum". It's not; callers are a foil for the host and even if you tried, you'd never get on one of KFYI's syndicated shows anyway.