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
Daylight saving time is an artificial way of adjusting time, but nothing changes when the sun rises and sets. Jerry Regis/Shutterstock.comThe 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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