The effects of the shift are more pronounced if you are in the western part of your time zone. Detroiters go from 6:40am sunrise to 7:40am sunrise, which tends

The effects of the shift are more pronounced if you are in the western part of your time zone. Detroiters go from 6:40am sunrise to 7:40am sunrise, which tends to get noticed while Bostonians go from 5:55am to 6:55am. Guess where DST was a major political issue in the 20th century (the memory of that and related debates is why the previous generation wanted to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’)