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The hazards of living on the right side of a time zone border

  • Written by Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
The hazards of living on the right side of a time zone borderDaylight saving time is an artificial way of adjusting time, but nothing changes when the sun rises and sets. Jerry Regis/Shutterstock.com

The sun both rises and sets later in the western parts of time zones, by about an hour at the extremes. If sunrise in Nashville, Tennessee is 6:30 a.m., it’s about 7:30 a.m. in Amarillo, Texas. Similarly,...

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