This Interactive Map Shows You Exactly How Much Daylight Saving Time Affects You
Daylight saving time always comes as a rather unexpected shock to our internal clocks, but if you’ve wondered how much it changes things every time, cartographer Andy Woodruff has created an interactive map that shows how many sunless evenings (and mornings) you have.
The end of daylight saving time has a fairly large effect on sunrise and sunset times across the country, but the effect does not extend even to time zones. For example, in New York, the sun rises about 40 minutes earlier than in Detroit, both of which are in the Eastern time zone. So, to illustrate the effect of Daylight Saving Time, Woodruff created several different visualizations along with an interactive map that you can play yourself. It shows what the country would look like if daylight saving time was canceled (more favorable sunrise times), as well as if it was in effect all the time (dark and late sunset times).
This knowledge is clearly not enough to cope with seasonal affective disorder , but at least it gives you a better idea of how much (potential) sunlight you are getting during the year.
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