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Subject: Re: Pinning down Spearfish Lake location Author: Jon [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 00:49:12 12/12/13 Thu In reply to: kilobytemangler 's message, "Pinning down Spearfish Lake location" on 21:22:51 12/08/13 Sun From Wikipedia: Michigan: All of Michigan observes Eastern Time except the four counties in the Upper Peninsula along the border with Wisconsin, which observe Central Time – Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, Menominee. Historically the entire state observed Central Time. When daylight saving time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all but the four counties noted changed to Eastern Time. Basically all of the UP is in the Eastern Time Zone, except for the areas close to Wisconsin which is in the Central Time Zone. Reason for the "border" area to be in Central is to hopefully make it easier to conduct business in those areas. After having lived in the Central Time Zone (Chicago/Milwaukee area) all my life, it'd be difficult to live in the UP in the winter and "use" Eastern time. In the winter or near solstice - 21 December, that would mean sunrise around 0826 and sunset around 1711. In the summer, again near solstice, 21 June, sunrise around 0403 and sunset at 2031. Sun times are for Menominee, the times would vary by a few minutes dependent on how far east/west SL would lie relative to Menominee. I guess it's just something you get used to over time or put in the words of Albert Einstein, time is relative. What's nuts with living by the sun as the rafters do, is moving to the extremes of sun time or north to Churchill, Manitoba (on the western shore of Hudson Bay) or Iceland/Scandinavia. A friend spent a couple of shore tours in Iceland with the US Navy, all he did was bitch about was how his pre-school son did was keep him up in the "middle" of the night when the kid should have been sleeping. What you lost in sleep in the summer, you made up in the winter with 4 or 5 hours of "daylight". [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Pinning down Spearfish Lake location Author: Michael Slade [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:02:25 12/17/13 Tue This is a great discussion that should be copied onto the Spearfish Lakes Discussion page on the Wiki! >Years ago, it was determined that Spearfish Lake was >somewhere in Wisconsin, Michigan, or maybe Minnesota. > >Since then it seems to have been narrowed down to >Michigan. > >However, SK20 seems to make it fairly clear that >Spearfish Lake is actually in the UP [unless a reread >of Dawnwalker suggests otherwise]. > >Do we have Lat-Long coordinates yet [just kidding]? > >At any rate, keep up the excellent work!