# Daylight Savings Time
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 22, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850 "2000-10-22T03:09:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850/21 "2000-10-24T16:42:24Z")
But not everybody uses Daylight time, so it’s not the standard. I imagine that over 50% of the world’s population doesn’t go on Daylight Savings time. (That’s a guess, I’m thinking that it’s not used in China and India.)
Just because most of the United States uses it doesn’t mean it’s the normal way of doing things.
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### Author:  [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850/22 "2000-10-24T16:50:46Z")
To add to the list of late sunrises.
On Ocotber 28, 2000, the last full day of daylight saving time, sunrise in Holland, Michigan is 8:14 am. (86 degrees W, 42 degrees N).
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### Author:  [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850/23 "2000-10-25T15:50:13Z")
Holland, Michigan must be very close to the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, in addition to being so far morth.
Do they grow tulips there?
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### Author:  [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time/37850/24 "2000-10-25T16:15:17Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jab1 \*
> \*\*Holland, Michigan must be very close to the western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, in addition to being so far morth.
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> Do they grow tulips there? \*\*
Holland, Michigan is on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
It’s biggest tourist attraction is a festival called “Tulip Time.”
It was originally settled by Dutch immigrants. The 4th of July fireworks show there starts very late, around 11 pm.
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