Hey Wirt, if theere were only one time zone, you know the work hours
would vary by location to match the daylight hours to a degree.

BTW, during WW!! the US has DST all year.

Nick (old ewnough to remember) D.

From: WirtAtmar <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> > Gary Jackson writes:
> >
> >  > Having had my interest piqued by this discussion, I peeked at TZTAB.
 Is
> > it
> >  > true that Newfoundland is half an hour off from the rest of us (or
vice
> >  > verse)?
> >
> >  An AT&T book I was given quite some time ago--which listed the country
> >  codes and many city codes for long-distance dialing--also showed the
> >  time zones.  Some areas were even off by 15 or 45 minutes.
> >
> >  I *think* this is AT&T Worldwide Calling Guide, available for free;
> >  order at
> >          < http://www.att.com/traveler/offers/att/ >
> >
> >  The "World Time Zone Map" I just found at
> >          < http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/world_tzones.html >
> >
> >  shows at most half-hour offsets.
>
> Prior to railroadization (a neologism if I ever heard one) of the US and
the
> attendant telegraph lines that followed, every city and town in the US
kept
> their own time, based on solar noon.
>
> Using the sun as a guide, every 15 degrees longitude is one hour of solar
> travel (360 circumferential degrees divided by 24 hours), thus towns only
a
> few tens of miles apart east or west would be offset by only a minute or
two.
>
> The advent of high-speed transportation -- and even higher speed
> communications -- in the late 19th Century changed all that. It became
far
> more convenient to have everyone within a (more or less) 15 degree
> longitudinal zone share the same time.
>
> Now with the arrival of world-wide instantaneous communications, there
may be
> good reason to have only time zone, world-wide. If that ever comes to
pass, I
> would strongly vote for making Hawaii "standard time." I would very much
like
> to be able to arrive at work at high noon, rather than eight in the
morning,
> as I must now.
>
> Wirt Atmar