Subject: Re: US time zone borders
Date: May 30, 2003 @ 15:15
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> I was looking for a time zone divided town in America, but didn'tfind anything yet.
>peter
> Maybe somebody else already did look for the same?
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: acroorca2002
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:01 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: US time zone borders
>
>
> glad to see you weighing back in on this good old question
> & delighted by your new finds & observations toodefinition
>
> clearly not only states but counties too can & do split into
> different time zones
> & no matter whether they do so town by town
> or by some other governmental or nongovernmental means
> because
> as we think we have already seen around apalachicola
> the line can be both very arbitrary & very fickle
>
> & this is so not only because of a lack of clear standard
> but also because of the various local adoptions ornonadoptions
> of daylight savings timeto
> yes a whole nother can of worms on top of the first can
>
> but i have noticed that in all such fuzzy areas people manage
> cope by simply distinguishing fast time from slow timeanomalies
>
> clocks are sometimes even labelled to that effect
>
> & some people even wear 2 wristwatches
> effectively distinguishing them as right ahead & left behind
>
>
> of course there are endless variations & supposed
> but the time changes i find most fun to contemplate are thevery
> few in the entire worldeasy...
> like the progression between the falkland islands & argentina
> that have become totally reversed
>
> yes thats west to east rather than east to west
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
> <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > For those who thought crossing a time zone border was
> >http://www.thelastresortoutfitter.com/whitewaterrafting/pic-timezo
> >
>
> ne-The
> > 1.htm
> >
> > (Somewhere on the Salmon river in Idaho, near Riggins.
> time zonehttp://www.webs1.uidaho.edu/niatt/publications/Tech_Brief/Aug0
> > boundary divides not only Idaho state, but also the county
> bearing
> > the same name. By the way, they also have a bridge
> nicknamed Time
> > Zone Bridge there (so crossing _can_ be easy):
> >
>
> 0.htm )for
> >
> > Peter S.
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...>
> > wrote:
> > > No map.
> > >
> > > But a good table:
> > >
> > > http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/tus.html
> > >
> > > Jesper
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Jan S. Krogh
> > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:22 AM
> > > Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] US time zone borders
> > >
> > >
> > > Jesper,
> > >
> > > Neither I did find any good map.
> > > It seems to floow the county borders. You will therefore
> > those states concerned need a map showing theircounties.
> > >http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/current_times_in_texas_a-
> > > Two example are Texas and Michigan:
> > >
> > >
>
> > h.shtmlhttp://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/michigan_time_zone.shtm
> > >
> > >
>
> lTerms
> > >
> > > Jan
> > >
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