there was an article in a geog jounral some time back about that city. and
its problems and advantages. do you know it?

BW

>From: David Mark <dmark@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Time zone boundaries
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:52:39 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Lloydminster is a town half in Almerta (Canada) and half in Saskatchewan,
>that straddles a time-zone boundary as well as a Provincial boundary. In
>the summer, when Alberta goes on Daylight savings time and Saskatchewan
>does not, local time is the same al over Lloydminster. In the winter,
>there is a time zone boundary.
>
>David
>
>On Thu, 10 May 2001, Peter Smaardijk wrote:
>
> > Just found an article about Gulf county's time warp:
> > http://www.newsherald.com/archive/gulf/td070298.htm . On the little
> > map, White City is sitting right on the time zone boundary. Surely,
> > this can't be the case. Not very practical, I would think. Or is this
> > the real situation?
> >
> > The time zone boundary seems to be coinciding with two roads: Highway
> > 386 and U.S. 98, acc. to
> > http://www.newsherald.com/archive/local99/lc121999.htm . Is it really
> > true that your neighbour across the road, in the same village or
> > town, is one hour ahead of/behind you????
> >
> > This is really bewildering.
> >
> > Peter S.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >
>

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