>>I'm not entirely sure, but I thought the entire state was technically supposed to be in the eastern zone. The problem, I think, is that the western part of the state is so far west in the eastern time zone that it's effectively central time, that is, running on eastern time in EDT, for example, would give very late dark mornings even in summer. Thus some localities opted out of the state standard...
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>Must be damn confusing if you go for a walk and accidentally cross the line!!!

Once when Italy had daylight time and we didn't, I've miscalculated the direction of the difference, and instead of returning across the border at (supposedly) 21:00, we came at 23:00 just to see how the cleaners close and lock the bus station entrance door... said next bus goes 05:00. Though we had a nice hitch that night :)