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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jedberg on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:36PM (#30692844)
> I'm pretty sure this happens in the US to people on a daily basis?

Not really. The time zones are pretty crooked so that the borders go through desolate areas. Only place that really happens is near Chicago.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by internet2000 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:46PM (#30692952)
A lot of people live near Chicago.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jcranmer on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:52PM (#30693951)
The Chicago suburbs of Indiana are in the Central Time Zone; it would take you an hour on I-90 (assuming no traffic whatsoever!) to reach the Illinois border from the Central/Eastern time zone change point, and even longer if you're coming north on I-65.

The time zone change happens even further afield than the furthest exurbs of Chicago. The places there are well and truly rural.

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by jedberg on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:49PM (#30692978)
In the grand scheme of things, not really. And most of them aren't crossing into Indiana every day.
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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by illirik on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:46PM (#30693899)
Most of NW Indiana is in Central time, anyway, so you're going past the exurbs into farmland to cross time zones.
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