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- From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: The Time
- Message-ID: <45708@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:41:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul15.183702.15249@cpio1.UUCP> <8860007@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- Reply-To: dternes@mips.COM (David Ternes)
- Organization: Advanced Product Development
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- In article <8860007@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mike@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike McNelly) writes:
- >
- >In the U.S., the timezones are organized largely along state boundaries
- >but the legal requirements are regulated by the individual states, each
- >with its own set of laws. Most (but not all) states require the change
- >to daylight savings time to be applied uniformly throughout the state.
- >I believe that at least one state allows individual communities to
- >determine whether they wish to participate in daylight savings time.
- >Historically, if a state participates in daylight savings time, it
- >changes its time at the same time as other places in the U.S.
- >
- >Alaska is a state that encompasses several timezones, I believe.
- >
- Also, communities along the timezone boundaries have some leeway
- in deciding what zone to belong to. The city of Mandan, ND, was
- once in Mountain Time but is now a part of Central Time. This
- was done to ease commerce with the city of Bismarck, ND, across
- the Missouri River. Since Bismarck-Mandan are really one population
- center it would have been foolish to separate them between zones.
-
- A personal aside, being on the extreme western edge of a timezone has
- the benifit of staying light later into the evening. It more than
- makes up for the later dawn since most people sleep thru dawn anyway.
- E. David J. Ternes dternes@udev.cdc.com
- Goal: To live either in obscurity or in competance.
-