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This is fundamentally incorrect. As of right now, EST/CDT is 57 minutes ahead of solar time in Brazil, which is due north of Owensboro and due south of Porter. These locations are ONLY 3 MINUTES OFF OF SOLAR TIME WHEN USING CST. That means that regardless of your opinion of the longitude covered by CST it is perfectly appropriate for these locations.Not all, the Jeffersonville/Clarksville/New Albany are EST.
Evansville should be by all standards with the rest of Indiana because the central time zone is inappropriately to large.
The region, they associate with Chicago, some times the way a lot of people act up there and the way they vote, we should just let Illinois have it and we take equal a amount of southeastern Illinois.
But then, who would Chicago have to blame their gun violence on.
The solar midnight and noon are quoted in EST.
Similarly, Jeffersonville is 8 minutes from local solar time when placed in CST where it properly belongs.
You are entitled to your own preferences, but the fact of the matter is that the western culture has used solar time as its standard throughout history up to the time that the railroads needed to schedule trains without head-on collisions demanded standardization. The bottom line is that CST most correctly reflects the actual solar time for the entire state of Indiana. Decades of using CDT year round worked well for us balancing the advantages of dst with a basically appropriate time. Using EDT which is approximately 2 hours away from actual time is dumber than owlshit.