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# There’s Too Much Night Here
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/december-21-2022/
- Published: 2022-12-21T23:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:43.000Z
- Description: Due to some 19th-century railroad logic, Nevada is the only non-coastal state in the Pacific Time Zone.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

It’s the longest night of the year, and I went for my first Las Vegan run. Ordering cheeseburgers through a small metal box for two thousand miles has taken its toll. I looked like an abomination as I hauled myself along an empty avenue, screeching and swearing. The mountains peered down at me, laughing in the dark. It was too late at night to run, I decided, and I turned back after two miles.

It was 4:38pm.

I love the night, but there’s too much of it here. Due to some 19th-century railroad logic, Nevada is the only non-coastal state in the Pacific Time Zone, and Vegas is tucked into the far eastern corner, only thirty miles away from Mountain Time. In December, the sun technically sets a little after four o’clock in the afternoon, but it sinks behind the Spring Mountains an hour before that. For the first time I can remember, I’m grateful we’re going to start making more daylight tomorrow.

Until then, here’s some sludgy cold-running new wave from Japan circa 1980:

[The Bedroom Tapes by Perfect Mother](https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/the-bedroom-tapes?ref=jamesreeves.co)