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Michigan's problem arose after the U.S. Congress approved Daylight Saving Time for all states except those that specifically asked to be exempted. Michigan's legislature duly voted for exemption, largely because the state lies on the far western rim of the Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...
From Hackensack to Pottstown, Lock Haven to Dover, the power lines went dead for up to nine daylight hours throughout a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of the East. More than 13 million people, living in three-quarters of New Jersey, much of eastern Pennsylvania, eastern Maryland and northern Delaware, were caught last week in the nation's second great power failure...
...resultant offspring. In Hawaii, where Oahu once had only two-fifths of the state's senators, though it had four-fifths of the population, a reapportioned senate (giving Oahu 19 of 25 seats) helped enact 20 consumer-protection bills and a traffic-safety measure. Throughout the Deep South, Daylight Saving Time is no longer rejected in favor of "God's time." Even in Tennessee, where it used to be a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and ten days in jail to display a clock with Daylight Time, clocks have been set ahead an hour...
...Uniform Time Act, passed by Congress a year ago, that requires all states to follow statewide Daylight Time-unless the respective legislatures enact exempting laws. Last week as the hour struck to turn the clocks ahead one hour, the chaos was less, but compliance was far from perfect. Forty-five states are now keeping D.S.T.; still out of step are Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan...
...states that are split into two time zones. Indiana has asked D.O.T. to revise the boundaries so that the entire state falls in the Central Time zone; meanwhile, eastern Indiana will remain on Eastern Standard and thus keep the same time as the western portion, which is on Central Daylight all year long. Parts of Nebraska and Kansas in the Mountain Time zone will keep Central Daylight while their requests for revised boundaries are pending; similarly, parts of North Dakota and El Paso in the Central zone are observing Mountain Daylight. Michigan, which passed exempting legislation, has asked D.O.T...