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People who live on the eastern extreme of a timezone likely feel quite different than those who live on the western extreme.

Boston, MA and Marquette, MI are in the same time zone. Boston's sunset today is 6:51 PM. Marquette's sunset today is 7:55 PM. It's no surprise that residents of each of those cities would have a different view as to "what should we do about DST?"

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I agree. I live in Boston and winters are oppressive in large part because sunset is at 4:30 (or earlier). For Boston at least, I strongly feel we should just move to Atlantic time and just bite the bullet on the difficulties this causes with teams elsewhere. This proposal effectively does that for Boston, but I understand why the people of Marquette would be opposed.

Yes but you're still only 3 timezones away from California if the whole country switches--while potentially being further away from Europe in winter. (I think :-))

for that, time zone boundaries should be straight lines rather than following arbitrary political whims. then you’d only have a half hour variance at most.

It seems extremely impractical for a city to be in two time zones.

the problem isn't going around a city here or there (a few degree minutes), but the crazy meanderings for tens/hundreds of miles in either direction (a few to many degrees). some zone lines are so far off that they're two ideal zones away from where they should be.

And then you'd need to know your exact longitude to know what time it is - doesn't sound workable to me. Although it would make life easier for GPS makers.

you'd still have 24 zones, but they'd be straight lines, not the crazy lines a 3-year-old might make that we have now.

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