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A related bill proposed moving all of Florida to the Eastern Time Zone which was not passed. This bill was passed by the Florida Legislature but may never happen since it requires an act of Congress to change a time zone. In 2018, the governor of Florida proposed The Sunshine Protection Act that would permanently keep Florida on Daylight Saving Time. In 1982, the residents of Gulf County had the opportunity to change the whole county to Central Time, but 55 percent chose to keep it as it is. The time zone is an important issue that has residents divided as well. Joe and all the communities and beach towns to the south. The shipping and railroad industries wanted to keep the coastal areas in the Eastern Time Zone and therefore, the line turns at the fork in the Apalachicola River in Apalachicola and encompasses Post St. However, the time line does not go all the way to the coast as the river does. In Florida, the time line was established along the Apalachicola River, beginning at the Georgia border and following the fiver to the south.

Then in 1918, time zones became law with the Standard Time Act that implemented standard time zones and daylight saving time in the U.S. Time Zones were first introduced in 1883 by a civil engineer who came up with the idea to help train schedules. The northers side of Gulf County is in the Central Time Zone and the south along the Gulf Coast is in the Eastern Time Zone.įirst, let's review how time zones were established.