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This is a time zone and sunrise/set question. I already researched my answer but I thought my post would be more suitable here rather than the research forum? Perhaps I'm wrong.
Anyway, my story takes place in a small town in Michigan in 1923. At the time, with the exception of Detroit, Michigan was in Central time zone. DST wasn't established for some decades afterward. Michigan adopted EST for all of the state except the far western counties in the UP in 1931.
What I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around is the sun rising and setting so much earlier than it does today in our time. Today the sun rose at 6:15am and will set at 8:58 pm according to The Weather Channel. Right now we're in DST, so if I were to knock the time back two hours for 1923 time, the sunrise would be 4:15am and sunset 6:58pm. Unless there was some time adjustment somewhere between then and now that I don't know about, would this be correct? So, say for my Fourth of July scene, they shoot off fireworks after sundown. Today fireworks are usually shot off at 10pm, so back then it would be two hours earlier at 8pm.
The story is a vampire story, and the sunrise/set is rather important since three of the four vampires in my story cannot go into sunlight. I have some scenes that are/going to be dependent on the time and when the sun sinks. Hence, trying to wrap my brain around all of this.
Anyway, my story takes place in a small town in Michigan in 1923. At the time, with the exception of Detroit, Michigan was in Central time zone. DST wasn't established for some decades afterward. Michigan adopted EST for all of the state except the far western counties in the UP in 1931.
What I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around is the sun rising and setting so much earlier than it does today in our time. Today the sun rose at 6:15am and will set at 8:58 pm according to The Weather Channel. Right now we're in DST, so if I were to knock the time back two hours for 1923 time, the sunrise would be 4:15am and sunset 6:58pm. Unless there was some time adjustment somewhere between then and now that I don't know about, would this be correct? So, say for my Fourth of July scene, they shoot off fireworks after sundown. Today fireworks are usually shot off at 10pm, so back then it would be two hours earlier at 8pm.
The story is a vampire story, and the sunrise/set is rather important since three of the four vampires in my story cannot go into sunlight. I have some scenes that are/going to be dependent on the time and when the sun sinks. Hence, trying to wrap my brain around all of this.