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Why not 2 Timezones for US?
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago1 would be great. I favor New York winter time, in case we join South America in the future.
- emchammer 2y agoAlaska and Hawaii are also in the US. Perhaps better one for the continent based on high noon at Chicago, and get rid of daylight saving time.
- euroderf 2y agoSo we would emulate the mainland Chinese and the Russian railways ?
- emchammer 2y agoIt would be coincidental, but it all works out on a human scale, if only we had better trains. It would not make us communists, which by the way, Vietnam is building a high-speed rail link between their two biggest cities for a fraction of the price of California High-Speed Rail.
- dlcarrier 2y agoTwitter refuses to anonymously let me read tweets, so I don't know what the arguments are, but multiple studies show that the further west you live within a time zone, the shorter your lifespan. Causes include an increase in cancer rates (https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/26/8/1306/283057/Longitude-Position-in-a-Time-Zone-and-Cancer-Risk https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/26/8/1306/283057/Longi...) and suicide (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016503272300931X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...). We'd be better of having time zones every half hour, instead of every hour.