![]() The invention of the mechanical clock in the 1300s heralded the advent of precisely measured time. Before, it had been divided into four zones with names like Yukon and Bering. The entire state of Alaska (except the Aleutian Islands) entered Alaska Standard Time in 1984. Louisville, Ky., actually did switch from central to Eastern time in 1961, and, during the past 15 years, communities in Kansas, North Dakota, Indiana, and Nevada have changed time zones. Florida also considered changing zones so it could get more afternoon sunshine. Maine once pondered switching to Atlantic time to be the first time zone in the US. It's an idea other communities have toyed with before. About 72 percent of the respondents favored the change. Opponents said children would be standing in the dark to catch school buses, and farmers would have to wait an hour to work their fields in the morning.įederal officials received 2,500 comments from the county's 9,000 residents. Politicians in favor of the change promised increased wages and more jobs as the county links itself to the bigger cities on Eastern time. Wayne County residents debated the issue for more than a year. "The Eastern time zone, it's a faster pace." "We're a little more laid back," says the longtime Monticello resident. "The time zone doesn't affect the number of hours of daylight, but people perceive it as having a real effect on the quality of life."īetty Cooper, for one, is not happy about joining the Eastern time zone. "It's very much a cultural-identity thing," says Joanne Petrie, an attorney at the US Department of Transportation who oversees the agency's requests for changes. Like food and speech, time zones can shape a community's identity in subtle and personal ways some experts even refer to "time accents." And to many here in Wayne County, the change is thrusting a rural county that has been on the "slow time" of cattle pastures and corn fields into the bustle of East Coast "fast time." ![]() But it will affect more than just prime-time TV shows and trips to nearby Somerset, Ky. The move - only the fifth change in US time-zone boundaries in the past 15 years - is an effort to attract commerce from larger cities on Eastern time. This fall, the Kentucky county will move from central to Eastern time. Retired factory workers fill the billiard hall down in Monticello at lunchtime, and countryside tobacco-curing barns mark time by the season, not days or minutes.īut the times are changing - by one hour, to be exact. – 5:20 p.m.TIME seems to move a little slower here in Wayne County. Kennedy, Atkinson, Audubon, Bowen, Brandeis, Breck-Frank, Byck, Carter, Cochran, Coleridge-T, Engelhard, Fairdale ES, Farmer, Fern Cr ES, Foster, Frayser, Goldsmith, Greathouse, Hawthorne, Hazelwood, Indian Trail, Jacob, JTown ES, JFK, King, Klondike, Lincoln, Maupin, McFarran, Medora, Minors Lane, Norton, Okolona, Price, Rutherford, Semple, Shelby, Slaughter, Wellington, Wheatley and Young
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