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The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and some Caribbean islands. [1]
Saskatchewan remains on Central Standard Time (CST), although, geographically, they are in the Mountain Time Zone, and Yukon remains on Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year long. The US territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands remain on Atlantic Standard Time (AST) all year long, so clocks in those territories match those in New York ...
Central Time Zone (Zone S), which comprises roughly the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, and most of the Great Plains. Mountain Time Zone (Zone T), which comprises roughly the states and portions of states that include the Rocky Mountains and the western quarter of the Great Plains.
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. [ 1 ...
In 1949, the Indiana General Assembly outlawed daylight saving time and a new law was passed making Central Time the state's official time zone. In 1968, however, Time Life Broadcasting led and won a federal lawsuit for the observance of DST. Following, the assembly placed northwest and southwest Indiana in the Central Time Zone and the rest of ...
The current situation is different only in that six Indiana counties have since been moved from the Central time zone to the Eastern time zone. The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones.
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