OT: timezones
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 16:55 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> roby <sobrecarga@adelphia.net> writes:
>
{snip}
>
> Yeah, I read through some of the history tidbits, like that the push for
> timezones or more coordinated time in the US originally came from railway
> company(ies) for obvious reasons, and that only 1966 the whole matter was
> dealt with by federal law
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act
>
> which, as you said, still allows for exceptions. The one you mentioned
> is noted under the above link, and here too
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_time_zones
>
> and it seems to come out even funnier. Quote:
>
> "The Navajo Nation observes DST throughout its entire territory, including
> the portion that lies in Arizona. But the Hopi Nation, which is entirely
> surrounded by the Navajo Nation, does not observe DST."
>
> So, Arizona does not observe DST, the Navajo Nation therein however does,
> while the Hopi Nation therein again doesn't. Apparantly, the Navajos prefer
> identity over uniformity (or uniformity over identity, depends on how you
> look at it, state wise or federal :) )
>
> Man, that stuff is really interesting. Also that e.g. in the pacific area,
> Autralia in particular, there are timezones only half an hour apart. Didn't
> know that either.
>
> And now the funny bit: since I looked at that stuff, I customized my Gnus
> mail client to show me your guys offset from UTC in the summary buffer,
> as specified in your Date mail header. So e.g. this thread looks like this
> in my summary buffer:
>
> michael 06.04.05:00:06 +01 timezones
> Clive Menzies 06.04.05:00:18 +01 Re: timezones
> michael 06.04.05:00:38 +01 Re: timezones
> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:50 +02 Re: timezones
> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:28 +02 Re: timezones
> Clive Menzies 06.04.05:00:56 +01 Re: timezones
> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:01:16 +02 Re: timezones
> roby 06.04.05:15:41 -04 Re: timezones
> Bruno Hertz 06.04.05:00:40 +02 Re: timezones
>
> and, as your mails arrive, without even looking into them I can see what your
> timezones are and where you're likely from (see that column with +/- UTC offsets).
> Michael apparently is BST, I'm CEST, and you are EST with DST. So, presumably,
> Michael is from the UK, I'm anywhere from continental Europe, and you anywhere
> from the US East Coast. Now, is this fun or what? :)
More exactly, I guess, you can tell what timezones the mailers we're
using are ;)
eg between my mails above I changed my clock settings (see prior emails)
which doesn't show up since i was using a web mailer on another
machine....
Michael the pedant
>
> Regards, Bruno.
>
>
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Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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