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Was at work when I made that last quick check on CD, can't spend much time looking at maps in that situation. In my mind's map, Louisville and Indianapolis are lined up on the east west scale probably because I think of I-65 running north south. Checking the map, I see 65 angles to the northwest coming out of Louisville and Indianapolis is further west.
That Indiana is one of those states that has pockets not observing daylight savings time does confuse the issue as well, so areas in the state bounce back and forth between Central and Eastern time zones. I take it that Indianapolis does observe DST and is truly 100% in the Eastern Time Zone?
How is that an oddity? Louisville is definitely in the Eastern portion of the country.
What is odd is that Chicago is in Central Time. Even more odd that Nashville is.
It's an oddity that people in Kentucky (by your own claim on your previous post that I replied to) don't think of Kentucky in the eastern part of the US when the two major cities in the state are in the EST.
There has to be a boundary between the EST and the CST somewhere. About the only two state borders that line up naturally with this line are Georgia and Alabama and Illinois and lower Michigan (along Lake Michigan). Tennessee, Kentucky and even Florida are so long east to west that they must be divided. Indiana could be a state that would naturally let its boundary with Illinois follow the time zone, but chunks of the state are CST. That Chicago would be EST when all of Indiana is east of it and it isn't all EST doesn't make it an oddity.
Seems like a more natural boundary for the EST that avoided divisions within a state would be for all of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan to be CST. It wouldn't be a straight line by any means, the borders between NC and TN and then VA and KY would make for a crazy zig zag. But at least you would have more states without the time zone dividing up a state.
So, time zone boundary lines themselves are oddities of geography.
It's an oddity that people in Kentucky (by your own claim on your previous post that I replied to) don't think of Kentucky in the eastern part of the US when the two major cities in the state are in the EST.
There has to be a boundary between the EST and the CST somewhere. About the only two state borders that line up naturally with this line are Georgia and Alabama and Illinois and lower Michigan (along Lake Michigan). Tennessee, Kentucky and even Florida are so long east to west that they must be divided. Indiana could be a state that would naturally let its boundary with Illinois follow the time zone, but chunks of the state are CST. That Chicago would be EST when all of Indiana is east of it and it isn't all EST doesn't make it an oddity.
Seems like a more natural boundary for the EST that avoided divisions within a state would be for all of Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan to be CST. It wouldn't be a straight line by any means, the borders between NC and TN and then VA and KY would make for a crazy zig zag. But at least you would have more states without the time zone dividing up a state.
So, time zone boundary lines themselves are oddities of geography.
Well, it's odd that any part of Indiana or even a lot of Illinois are CST. Maybe half of Illinois should be EST and the other half CST.
As far as Michigan, I believe no part of the Lower Peninsula is in Central Time at all.
Well, it's odd that any part of Indiana or even a lot of Illinois are CST. Maybe half of Illinois should be EST and the other half CST.
As far as Michigan, I believe no part of the Lower Peninsula is in Central Time at all.
Why should Illinois be eastern when it is state on the Mississippi? Alabama is a full state east of the river and is totally in the CST. It aligns pretty well with Indiana being a full state east of the Mississippi., it would make more sense for all of Indiana to be in the CST than for Illinois to be in the EST.
Considering the Mississippi runs pretty much due north/south, it should be a good marker of these things. The Atlantic coast however is not. Distance from the Atlantic is not a good judge of who should or should not be EST because the coast angles sharply to the northeast from the Georgia Coast to Maine. It is not a north/south line, Maine is MUCH further east than Georgia.. The Georgia coast is pretty much due south of Cleveland, Ohio. Maine is WAY east of that. As the Canadian maritime provinces are in Atlantic time, you can think of Maine as the eastern extent of the time zone. Illinois is WAY too far west to be in the same time zone.
St. Martin Parish (LA) has an exclave, which can only be reached by going through another county.
Bay County, Michigan also owns the tip of a peninsula that can only be reached by going through southerly Saginaw County, and the services there are provided by Saginaw County. Really odd.
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