I would counterargue that there is a reason why time zones are "skewed west", and point out that this phenomenon is not unique to the US, it repeats itself globally. This assessment of "should be" presumes that the idealized time zone placement involves keeping clock time as close to solar time as feasible while still only working in 1-hour increments. I wouldn't be surprised though if there are issues with it. Louisville and Elizabethtown would be on the same time as Bowling Green and Paducah.įrom the Tennessee state line I see the boundary remaining the same all the way south to the Florida Panhandle, keeping Eastern Tennessee and Georgia in Eastern and Middle Tennessee and Alabama in Central.Īnyway, that's how I'd fix that particular boundary. In Kentucky itself the US 27 and US 127 routes would be in Eastern Time with US 31W and US 31E staying in Central Time. Speaking of highways in Kentucky, this idea keeps I-65 in the Central Time Zone for its entire routing and the I-75 route stays entirely in Eastern Time once passing the boundary south of Lima. This idea, if I'm looking at the DMA map right would move Russell County into Eastern with Wayne and Pulaski. I know with Louisville and Lexington being close (I think) it may not be the greatest idea but I see this as preserving the boundary for points further south and not messing any more with Ohio. Everything in the current Louisville DMA market would go to Central time while everything in the Lexington DMA will go to Eastern, including the capital of Frankfort. I propose drawing the time zone boundary between the Louisville and Lexington media markets. Drawing the boundary across the eastern part of the state would probably be better but it most of Ohio (outside of Toledo) were to remain in Eastern then there may have to be a different option. Now across Kentucky I have a more controversial idea, one that probably won't work but I'll share it anyway. I see the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky media market remaining in the same time zone as Dayton, Columbus and Lexington to the south. In Indiana, only Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties would stay in Eastern to remain with the Cincinnati market. Union City, Ohio will get a Wendover, Nevada style option of staying in Central to remain on the same time as Union City, IN and West College Corner, IN will get the option of going to Eastern to stay with College Corner, OH. The boundary would then follow the Indiana-Ohio line south to Dearborn County, Indiana. Everything south and southeast in the Dayton and Columbus markets would remain in Eastern. The time zone boundary would be drawn south of Wapakoneta and Celina in Ohio. The new time zone boundary would be drawn west to then include the Findlay and Lima areas into Central, keeping them on the same time as Detroit and Fort Wayne. Then draw the line across Lake Erie and include all of the Toledo media market east to Sandusky as part of Central. Starting in Ontario, move Sault Ste Marie and points west to Central, draw the line across Lake Huron and include Lambton, Chatham-Kent and Essex counties/areas in southwest Ontario into Central along with all of Michigan. I had a few interesting ideas for the Central/Eastern time zone boundary.
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