W UP and Eastern Time

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windingtrailgal

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Not trying to stir anything up...think the Bears/Packers has that covered!!

I remember years ago asking someone in a bar in Calumet why the UP was in EST...old timer told me it was because of the mining back in the day and the need to be on EST for the commodities market back when there was just telegraph type technology - bare bones of the conversation.

We stay at a buddies place just up the Lk MI shore from Menomminee and it's on Central time and that's WAY further E than the W UP...

My question, I guess, is whether the good folks that live in the UP have ever petitioned to have them on CST instead of EST now that the reasons for them being on EST are pretty much gone?

Just curious...

wtg
 
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thebluff

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I love EST here. 11:15 pm and still light in the summer. It is perfect.
Daybreak starts lighting things at 4:30 am...CST would make that even earlier. Plz don't change us.
 
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windingtrailgal

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bluff

Well, see, there's my answer!
I was just curious...I'm not looking to change anything at all...was just wondering if the folks that live up there have ever tried to change it.

wtg
 
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Falcon20

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Is it not correct that every county in the UP that touches Wisc. is in the Central Time Zone? Or so I've been told.
 
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eao

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The four counties of Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee in the western Upper Peninsula are in the Central Time Zone.
 
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hemi_newman

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isnt gobebic county both? because i thought you could go from one end of the lake to the other and celebrate new years twice?
 
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frnash

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hemi_newman said:
isnt gobebic county both? because i thought you could go from one end of the lake to the other and celebrate new years twice?
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Nope.

But Lake Gogebic is approximately 12 miles long, with the south half (approximately) of the lake in Gogebic County, and the north half (approximately) in Ontonagon County. Thus it's Central time at the south end of the lake and Eastern time at the north end.
 
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anonomoose

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Actually, ALL of the Upper Peninsula was in the central time zone beginning in 1967....soon as you crossed over the big mack, you had to set your clock back on the old buick.

But in 1973 all but the south border counties switched back to Eastern, cause it was felt that central time put the Upper out of touch with the rest of Michigan...something the Upper didn't want to do at the time.

So to answer your question, YES time zone changes have been hashed and re-hashed up in God's country, goin back and forth like butter spread on bread.
 
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