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- From: jim@remtech.com (Jim Levie)
- Subject: Re: The Time
- Message-ID: <jim.711740750@chimera>
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- References: <1992Jul15.183702.15249@cpio1.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:45:50 GMT
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- bernard@cpio1.UUCP (Bernard Fouche) writes:
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- >I'm looking for a file of administrative information about the legal
- >time in the USA. For instance, what was GMT when it was april 20,
- >1950, 2 a.m. in San Francisco ? Was it daylight saving time ?
-
- >Depending of the history of a country, this file could be difficult to
- >make : for instance, during world war two, France was divided in two
- >zones. Depending of the war, some cities moved out from DST and came
- >back a few weeks or months later because the two zones applied different
- >time calculations.
-
- After looking at one of my wife's astrology books that lists the local
- aberations, I'd say you have a formidable task. A quick persual found
- areas that have lists of time corrections that need to be applied. It
- seems to me that one would need a "map-time" database whose look-up
- entries were the lattitude/longitude of the place in question and the
- date/time.
-
- >In the USA, I do not know if DST is decided by a national bureau, or
- >if it is applied localy, county per county.
-
- >I need "only" information from January 1St 1900 to today.
-
- >Any help would be welcome.
-
- Go check out any of the astrology data books that list timezone
- adjustments for the US.
-
- >Please, use the net to answer if your answer is short enough : mail
- >arrives here only randomly !
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