She said when problems do occur, it’s usually when meeting with people from counties in the Eastern Time Zone. “On a daily basis, it doesn’t affect things much,” Loper said. Gogebic County is farther west than any other county in the state and thus deeper into the Central Time Zone than any other Michigan county.įor the most part, living in the Central Zone is just a fact of life, says Charly Loper, the city manager of Bessemer, the county seat of Gogebic County. “It’s crazy, but it works,” Zanon said with a laugh. On the flip side, his commute home takes hardly any time at all. Eastern Time, she said, he has to get up at 3:30 a.m. Zanon said her husband works in Escanaba, which is an hour’s drive away and in the Eastern Time Zone. But there can be challenges for county residents working outside their time zone. “They get here and say, ‘When did it change?’”įor many people in the Iron Mountain area, living in the Central Time Zone makes doing business with neighboring Wisconsin much easier, she said. Visitors to the area, however, “are always surprised by the time change,” Zanon said. “It’s been that way for a very long time,” says Lynda Zanon, director of the Dickinson Area Chamber Alliance in Iron Mountain, the county seat of Dickinson County and only a short drive from Wisconsin. So those four Michigan counties opted to be in that hour-earlier time zone to stay in sync with their Wisconsin neighbors. While most of Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone, four counties on the western edge of the Upper Peninsula are not.ĭickinson, Gogebic, Iron and Menominee counties all border Wisconsin, which is in the Central Time Zone. LANSING - If you drive far enough west through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, it’s possible to literally travel back in time. Spartan Newsroom - News and information from student journalists at the Michigan State University School of Journalism
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