Daylight Saving Comes to Indiana
Picture by Steven Pinker
Indiana has the latest sunset on the planet right now. This evening the sun set at 8:13pm in West Lafayette, and considering that it isn't that far up north here (latitude ~ 40 N), it's too delightful for words.
For the first time in 40 years, something to cheer about has come to Indiana. That's a really long time not to have daylight saving in this land.
posted by mr tickle at 11:09 PM
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of course there are plenty of places in Northern hemisphere like most of Eastern China which is all one time zone and is effectively on triple DST.
For instance in Urumqi tonight the sun sets at 841pm and doesn't rise tomorrow until 742am.
Further East you could get later than that as indeed further north. For instance Svalbard has sunset today of 927pm. And at Hall Land in Greenland the sun doesn't set until midnight tonight.
So it might be a record for the USA, but there are other countries on the planet.
Yeah, thanks for the info. I didn't mean that literally. Of course, even in the US, Houghton, MI, up north in the upper peninsula and close to the western edge of the eastern time zone, has an even later sunset than where I am.
I'm not the kind who thinks that America is the whole world :-). I love this earth and have been to many countries. As a kid, I loved studying the World Atlas. I used to lug the whole thing to the toilet and spent many hours reading it, trying to memorize countries and capitals and then redrawing maps on paper from memory. It sure came out very tattered indeed.
Now that you mentioned all these countries, I've always found it really amazing that with the arrangement that the zero meridian falls on greenwich, the international dateline almost cuts through the center of the Bering Strait and across the middle of the Pacific, so conveniently.
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