July 15, 2013: Michigan Highway 28 at the westernmost ETZ/CTZ highway crossing in the nation. This line of longitude on the globe is less than 30 miles east of Clinton, Iowa.
Have you noticed that for years now, maybe even going back to when ESPN assimilated ABC Sports, TV ads and promos for sporting events haven’t given the slightest crap about the Central Time Zone? Even if, say, they are promoting a game at “noon” next Saturday when both the current and future location call that 11 AM?
Network TV has not completely succumbed to this, as you can see at the end of this “Agents of SHIELD” promo, but with the ever-growing time-shifting audience and the fact that nearly half of the country lives in Eastern Time, one wonders how long we will even get that recognition.
The time zone lines are way off from where they should be, and more of the nation should be in God’s Own Time Zone, but that’s a post for another time.
(Inspired because DST is still stupidly early and needs to return to late March at the earliest.)