Subject: The clocks of Baarle<br/>
Date: Oct 21, 2004 @ 08:38<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1882583535">A comment from a purchaser of my Baarle book raises a point I had not <br/>
considered:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;There is one aspect that you were apparently unaware of - that is time.<br/>
&gt;Before the Second World War, the Netherlands did not keep Western <br/>
&gt;European/Greenwich Time.  It had its own standard time called &quot;Amsterdam <br/>
&gt;Time&quot; which was 20 minutes ahead of Western European Time.  This may have <br/>
&gt;had implications in Baarle.  I have a 1926 timetable of the SNCB (Societe <br/>
&gt;des Chemins de fer Belges - only French used in those days!).  For Baarle, <br/>
&gt;it shows times in both &quot;heures Belges&quot; and &quot;heures d&#39;Amsterdam&quot; - 20 <br/>
&gt;minutes different.  I think that Amsterdam  Time was abolished by the <br/>
&gt;German occupiers in 1940.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>So, does anyone know if Baarle operated under Belgian or Dutch time before <br/>
the Second World War?<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Brendan Whyte</div>