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Re: Time Zone Designations
From: UNK
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 21:48 -0800
From: UNK
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 21:48 -0800
"I have always supposed that changing ship time as zone time varied was a way to make sure you were properly synched with the shore when you arrived."
Hardly so, since Local Time for a landfall on the east side of the Atlantic varies with latitude, not longitude.
Herbert
