OT Re: Some thoughts on the Indiana time zone mess
- From: "Marc Fannin" <musxf579@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Nov 2005 15:59:10 -0800
Larry G wrote:
> I was trying to research the time zone boundary of the U.S. because I had an
> old atlas from the 60's that placed the Pacific-Mountain boundary squarely
> down the middle of the state of Utah. The modern border is on the
> Nevada-Utah line (excepting West Wendover in MT).
>
> At any rate, I happened across the DOT press release that the time zone
> changes are still a flurry, this time with the confusing situation of
> Indiana (not even considering the proposal which would place Maine on
> Atlantic Standard Time in winter).
>
> I was thinking: Currently, since Indiana (most of it) is on Eastern Time the
> whole year round, this delays television schedules in cities like
> Indianapolis and South Bend in prime time by one hour, placing them in an
> odd twilight zone, since the schedules are in sync in the Eastern and
> Central time zones. So, doesn't this actually mean that the prime time
> schedule of Indianapolis and South Bend actually is the same as that of
> Denver in summer? If it's 8 p.m. in July in Indianapolis, that's 7 p.m. in
> Denver.
>
> So, by moving at South Bend into Central, it's actually a move "east" by
> placing the TV schedule in sync with the eastern two-thirds of the country.
> Otherwise, as it stands now, you have parts of Michigan watching prime time,
> the same time as Denver in the South Bend DMA.
Since I grew up in Michigan watching South Bend stations, I can tell
you that the stations always broadcast Eastern Time year round, except
for local newscasts. For example, the local news was always at 6:00
local time, meaning that during DST, it was "News at 6, 7 in Michigan",
and it came on following the national news, and during standard time,
it was "News at 6", and it came on immediately before the national
news. ("National news" = broadcast live at 6:30 pm New York time)
>>From recent visits I've made, it appears not to have changed.
> I know it's just TV, but another interesting factoid in the politics of this
> thing. A move toward the west, pushing the time zone boundary back to the
> east, although counter to the trend of the ever-westwardness of the
> boundary, is actually more of the same in a way, an attempt to synchronize
> with the east.
>
> Anyway, it's just TV, but one of those factors that people set their watches
> and schedules by in some ways.
TV market location is actually one of the criteria IIRC that the USDOT
is asking the counties in their bids to change time zones. (The South
Bend Tribune had the full list in one of its recent stories but I can't
remember which one.)
You can also read submitted comments about this at http://dms.dot.gov/
by choosing Docket 22114 in the Simple Search. They range from
seemingly nearly illiterate to professional.
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