I agree. I live in Boston and winters are oppressive in large part because sunset is at 4:30 (or earlier). For Boston at least, I strongly feel we should just move to Atlantic time and just bite the bullet on the difficulties this causes with teams elsewhere. This proposal effectively does that for Boston, but I understand why the people of Marquette would be opposed.

Yes but you're still only 3 timezones away from California if the whole country switches--while potentially being further away from Europe in winter. (I think :-))

for that, time zone boundaries should be straight lines rather than following arbitrary political whims. then you’d only have a half hour variance at most.

And then you'd need to know your exact longitude to know what time it is - doesn't sound workable to me. Although it would make life easier for GPS makers.

you'd still have 24 zones, but they'd be straight lines, not the crazy lines a 3-year-old might make that we have now.

It seems extremely impractical for a city to be in two time zones.

the problem isn't going around a city here or there (a few degree minutes), but the crazy meanderings for tens/hundreds of miles in either direction (a few to many degrees). some zone lines are so far off that they're two ideal zones away from where they should be.