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In response to "Wait why is the middle offset by half an hour? -- nm" by spamlet

It's because 90% of the population lives in the south-east corner.

They used to be an hour behind, but business wanted to adopt eastern standard time, which the people in the west of the state don't want to do, so 30 minutes behind was adopted as a compromise.

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