Traffic accidents were a major public issue in the movement to implement Daylight Saving Time in the winter of 1973 against the backdrop of the oil embargo crisis. It was tried and then abandoned amid widespread outcry. The fear of kids waiting for school rides in the pitch dark could not be overcome. For some historical perspective, Google this string:
1973 time change traffic accidents . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST) Paul Gilmartin wrote > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. Not exactly. Prime time shows are *not* delayed for Central time. It's just that 8pm Eastern and 7PM Central are exactly the same time. Pacific shows are 'normally' delayed 2 hours. An 8PM Eastern show will show at 8PM Pacific. Back when Mountain time did not observe daylight savings time, the broadcasts were delayed 2 hours in Mountain time since half the year they were on Pacific time. I don't know what they do now. > But there's the school bus problem. Not really. It would actually make the bus problem worse. It's really the 'I want some time to go fishing or boating after work' problem. Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 09/18/2018 12:08 PM: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:19:37 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across >> the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border. >> > And I understand that in westen China some clocks are (unofficially) set back. > > And there's ego. In 2015, DPRK set its clocks back 30 minutes, just > to be unique. Then reverted (witn inadequate advance notice) a few > years after, for commercial reasons. > > And a few years earlier, Republic of Samoa advanced its clocks 24(!) > hours for commercial reasons. > >> But essentially, the U.S. Eastern, Central, and Mountain times are >> one time zone as far as TVs are concerned. >> > Sort of. But not for live sports events. > > The Today Show is delayed hour-by-hour to start at 0700 in every time zone. > (Don't know about Arizona.) They display local time in a chyron. > > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. > > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:43:07 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >> ... >> We really need to get out of the '8-5' work times. While outside work >> needs to be daylight centered, we could make our standard workday '6-3' >> and a lot more people would be happy with the available daylight after work. >> > But there's the school bus problem. > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
