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Re: Cell phone time, etc
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2005 Apr 23, 08:55 -0700
From: Gordon Talge
Date: 2005 Apr 23, 08:55 -0700
Lu Abel wrote: > > Frank Reed wrote: > > > I wonder if cell phone companies actively seek locations for their > > towers so that their cells do not straddle time zone boundaries... > > Okay, here's a challenge for a list member living in or visiting > southern Nevada or northern Arizona. Drive out to Hoover Dam. The > Arizona/Nevada border runs right down the middle of the Colorado river. > The two states are in different time zones (Pacific for Nevada, > Mountain for Arizona). Plus Arizona does not observe Daylight time. > (The time zone difference is uniquely emphasized by clocks at either end > of the dam showing local time.) > > US highway 93 runs right across the top of the dam. It would be an > interesting experiment to track cell phone time display whilst driving > across the dam... > > Lu Abel Can't do it now. We are on daylight savings time in California/Nevada. Arizona does not have daylight savings, so for 6 months it is the same time in California/Nevada as it is in Arizona. Gordon
