Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border. But essentially, the U.S. Eastern, Central, and Mountain times are one time zone as far as TVs are concerned. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:48:17 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > > > >One thing blew my mind: "The plan also raises the prospect of neighboring > >countries ending up an hour apart". Really? Did someone seriously say > >that out loud? > > > >> https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680 > >> > In 1883, when the U.S. adopted Standard Time, a timezone was about a day's > travel. A passenger or operator might to reset a watch no more tnan once > during a shift. > > Technology has shrunk the world. Nowadays, by similar reasoning, a single > timezone > would be reasonable. GMT. Or perhaps two, one for the Eastern Hemisphere, > one for > the Western. > > OTOH, nowadays almost everyone's personal timekeeping device resets > automatically > for both geographic and seasonal boundaries. No need even to press a button. > Why is this a matter of such intense contention? > > Late one morning circa 1972 from Boulder, CO, I attempted to phone a customer > in Benton Harbor, MI. > > "He's out to lunch. When can he call you back?" > > "I'm about to leave for lunch. Two hours from now?" > > [I didn't know whether MI had one timezone or two, and wasn't > sure they knew that CO was not observing DST, so I had shortcut > the computation.] > > [Long pause while I envisioned mental arithmetic operating, but > failing.] > > "What timezone are you in?" > > (Irrelevant. Would the result of the computation have been any different > if I had been in Pyongyang?) > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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