Kicker: Determining the time zones

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’re a little less than two weeks away from fall-back from daylight saving time to standard time and that blissful extra hour of sleep.

But it turns out the federal government has been oversleeping for years. An inspector general report says no single government agency has one authoritative map for where America’s time zones actually fall.

The IG’s office says: Several sources of time info on the Department of Transportation website were wrong. So now the DOT’s setting out to fix it with an official DOT time zone map. Here’s hoping everyone’s agreed on a deadline for the task. ’Cos you can’t miss deadlines!

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