nice hole in reality peter
which i chanced to visit recently
while en route from alflga to shore dinner in apalachicola
but unwittingly since i am normally oblivious of time
several different versions of truth are alleged
besides brendans mcnallys
http://www.fla-usa.com/counties/Gulf_county.html dated 1999
shows the time boundary leaving within central zone most of the community
of overstreet as well as the unlabelled area to its east possibly named
dalkeith
but leaving white city & beacon hill entirely within eastern time
& my 1996 aaa road atlas also leaves white city & beacon hill entirely eastern
& dalkeith mostly eastern but differently so & overstreet entirely central
& my 1980 gousha road atlas shows beacon hill & white city mostly in central
& overstreet & dalkeith entirely in central
so until we find some official definition of the boundary
which actually doesnt seem very intent on cleaving to highways 386 or 71
& which doesnt seem to have any incorporated towns here to hug either
it is looking like pure guesswork & happenchance
but to try to answer your most interesting & middle question anyway
none of these places has more than 1 zip code assigned to it
& in fact they may all share post offices with single numbers
since several come up empty
so i think zippable time zoning probably isnt ready for this area yet
but fantastic idea anyway
maybe oz is ready for zip primed time tho
m
>
>according to my recent )undated) rand mcnally atlas, the time zone boundary
>follows Apalachicola R from Lake seminole to the head of an inlet N of Bay
>city. The Franklin scounty line detours to the west of this a little south
>of sumatra. As the county is mainly swamp as shown in the atlas, i guess the
>line was drawn way before White City and the 71 were formed? The zone line
>goes through White City it seems to me.
>
>In Australia, Broken hill is on SA time, not NSW time.
>Tweed Heads, the southern end of the gold coast is in NSW which has summer
>time while none of Qld does, so in summer, this creates some hiccoughs for
>getting kids to school, going to work etc.
>Apart from Broken Hill, the zones follow state lines.
>BW
>
>
>>From: "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>
>>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Time zone boundaries
>>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:15:09 -0000
>>
>>In my old job, I was once asked if it is possible in the United
>>States to say in which time zone an address is located from the state
>>or county it is in. Normally, this is possible, since time zone
>>boundaries normally coincide with state boundaries, and when not,
>>then with county boundaries. I know of one case, however, where the
>>time zone boundary runs straight through a county: Gulf county in
>>Florida (and we all know Florida is in two time zones since the
>>presidential elections, don't we). My question is: how is this
>>boundary defined? Is there some quarternary (sub-county) boundary
>>that is used as time zone boundary here? Can you tell, for example,
>>the time zone from the ZIP code of an address?
>>
>>I read somewhere that for election purposes only, as the opening and
>>closing time of the ballot boxes has to be the same throughout a
>>county (at least in Florida, that is), Gulf county uses the same time
>>throughout the county. So in one part the voting starts at 6 a.m.,
>>and in the other part at 7 a.m.
>>
>>The splitting up, time-wise, of Gulf co., has to do with the railway
>>that runs through it (if I recall correctly). After all, the whole
>>implementation of the time zone system was really initiated by the
>>railways in the 19th century.
>>
>>Are there any other cases like this in the US? Or in other countries?
>>There must be.
>>
>>Peter S.