Yep, you are right... it also has to do with how far "east-west" you are in a certain time zone. If you are in the western part of the eastern time zone- then you get more light in the evening. Someone mentioned "dark at 4:30". That is the case for many areas in the "eastern" part of a time zone- especially the northeastern part of a time zone. Luckily for me (since I like the extra light in th evening), we are in the southeast and in the western part of the eastern time zone- so the earliest we get dark is about 5:30pm in its shortest stage. In the summer- we are light until a little after 9pm.
I think that some parts of the northeast (in the eastern part - like Maine), it gets dark around 4pm. I would go nuts.
To update... I looked up Caribou, Maine's sunset for Tuesday and it is 4:18 pm.... and I thought our 5:36pm sunset on the same day was bad.
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Originally Posted by Botnst
Changes in latitude, chages in latitude.
Farther south this daylight savings thing ain't so bad since the amplitude of the daylength is less. The farther north you go, the greater the differences between seasons, hence the twice-yeary whine from the north.
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