Happy New Year! Tonight At 12---11 Central
Happy New Year!
That said, I'd like to start my new year of gripes with the unfair treatment of all the people who live in the Central Time Zone of the United States by the television networks.
If you live elsewhere in the United States, you've undoubtedly hear TV programs being announced thusly: "Don't miss the special report, tonight at 9/8 Central."
Why is it that, of the four time zones of mainland United States, three get their own schedule: their network evening news starts at 6:30pm, their prime time programming runs from 8:00pm to 11:00pm, and their late night talk shows start at 11:30pm, while the Central Time Zone, gets everything early by an hour?
For those who have never experienced it, just imagine how messed up your schedule will be if your network evening news came on at 5:30pm and the late shows started at 10:30pm, before your kids were in bed!
And the experience is manifested in its worse form in New Years Eve, when families gather round the television set to watch the festivities, at 11:00pm!
And if our schedules are messed up by an hour, perpetually, year round, forever, what's the point of us following the rest of the country to change our clocks twice a year for Daylight Savings Time?
Sheesh!