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Posted by mm on October 13, 2009, 12:01 am
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:03:54 GMT, spambait@milmac.com (Doug Miller)
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>Most likely. There are a few counties in NW Indiana that are on Central time
>(the rest of the state is on Eastern) because of their proximity to Chicago.
>And back when we didn't observe DST, those counties, plus a few in the
>Cincinnati area, *did*, because of the economic connections to those cities.
For that matter, Greenwich England is no longer on Greenwich Time. In
fact aiui none of England is, because they lost 2 hours a day of
commerce with Europe. So they changed to some time most of Europe
uses.
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Posted by Red Green on October 14, 2009, 12:11 am
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> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:03:54 GMT, spambait@milmac.com (Doug Miller)
> wrote:
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>>Most likely. There are a few counties in NW Indiana that are on
>>Central time (the rest of the state is on Eastern) because of their
>>proximity to Chicago. And back when we didn't observe DST, those
>>counties, plus a few in the Cincinnati area, *did*, because of the
>>economic connections to those cities.
>
> For that matter, Greenwich England is no longer on Greenwich Time. In
> fact aiui none of England is, because they lost 2 hours a day of
> commerce with Europe. So they changed to some time most of Europe
> uses.
>
Yea, ughhh, I think their time is now in Euros.
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Posted by The Daring Dufas on October 11, 2009, 3:38 pm
harry k wrote:
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> On Oct 11, 7:30 am, spamb...@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote:
>>> Arizona in the US does not switch to DST. Yet within Arizona the Navajo
>>> Nation does.
>> Yeah, I remember finding that a bit confusing when driving through AZ some
>> years ago -- the time kept changing, and I didn't know why.
>> Hawaii also doesn't observe DST, and until quite recently neither did Indiana.
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> Try Idaho. I don't know what they do about DST but the south part of
> the state is in Mountain time, the northern part in Pacific Time. I
> have no clue as to why. The western border runs due N-S so why does
> the time zone take a zig?...Perhaps economics as the northern part is
> more connected to Washington state economically.
>
> Harry K
>
Idaho does not exist, it's a myth. I read it in the interweb.
http://tinyurl.com/yz2hfkv
TDD
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Posted by harry k on October 12, 2009, 11:49 am
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> harry k wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 7:30 am, spamb...@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote:
...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >>> Arizona in the US does not switch to DST. Yet within Arizona the Nava=
> >>> Nation does.
> >> Yeah, I remember finding that a bit confusing when driving through AZ =
some
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> >> years ago -- the time kept changing, and I didn't know why.
> >> Hawaii also doesn't observe DST, and until quite recently neither did =
Indiana.
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> > Try Idaho. =A0I don't know what they do about DST but the south part of
> > the state is in Mountain time, the northern part in Pacific Time. =A0I
> > have no clue as to why. =A0The western border runs due N-S so why does
> > the time zone take a zig?...Perhaps economics as the northern part is
> > more connected to Washington state economically.
> > Harry K
> Idaho does not exist, it's a myth. I read it in the interweb.
> http://tinyurl.com/yz2hfkv
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Damn, I missed that but it certainly must be valid.
Harry K
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Posted by Oren on October 11, 2009, 5:39 pm
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>Arizona in the US does not switch to DST. Yet within Arizona the Navajo
>Nation does.
I didn't know THAT. If they leave the reservation they have to know
what time it is in Arizona.
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>(the rest of the state is on Eastern) because of their proximity to Chicago.
>And back when we didn't observe DST, those counties, plus a few in the
>Cincinnati area, *did*, because of the economic connections to those cities.