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Re: Time zone by letter and DST
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Aug 19, 23:28 -0600
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2007 Aug 19, 23:28 -0600
On 19 Aug 2007, at 5:24 PM, Lu Abel wrote: > Things are often even crazier in other parts of the world Like Nepal which is off by 5 hr 45 minutes from GMT! Or in the USA where you can drive on a lonely road north out of Winnemucca Nevada in Pacific time (UTC-8), into Oregon where you go into Mountain Time (UTC-7), and then back into Pacific Time, but in the hundred miles of Oregon where you drive in and out of these time zones, there is not a single city, structure, or civil entity other than sagebrush! Time zones are for people, and yet there are no people! Other than the lone highway there is not a single man made object visible for hours. No dirt roads. No fences. No telephone poles. No power lines. Nothing, except for sagebrush. Check the map to see this bizarre deviation and then drive these lonely roads and scratch your head wondering why such a diversion in the time zone line could ever have been made... The longer I live the more I want there to be no DST, and I am sure time zones will be next on my list of things to get rid of! ;-) Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---