another similar situation exists in college corner, ohio and west
college corner, indiana. the new york times had an article on these
towns a few years ago, highlighting the pecularities of towns that
straddle a time zone demarcation.
they share a high school, whose gymnasium straddles the state boundary.
i don't know if their teams compete for the indiana state championship,
the ohio state championship...or both? :>)
bob beckett
hollis, new hampshire
usa
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Mark [mailto:dmark@...]
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 7:53 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Time zone boundaries
>
>
> 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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