On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 05/26/2016 10:30 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > > In the US, they do put up signs, at least along major roads. > > In that case it might be a good idea to map the signs themselves, and > leave the interpretation (if there's a sign here and a sign there what > might this mean for the land in between) to the consumer. > Probably for the best since you get deep enough into Beaver County around Boise City and Black Mesa, about the only clock that's on Central time is the one on the courthouse in the central square of town; all the cellphone towers (and therefore everyone's phones) and next larger towns are in New Mexico or Colorado on Mountain time. Not to mention the sun, which should put the breakover to mountain time at just straight down the eastern border of the Texas panhandle, making the end of the panhandle far enough west to be well over an hour off the solar time during DST on central time, in a largely agrarian region, which is decidedly a pain in the butt given the context. Similar issues come up with the Mountain/Pacific split in eastern Oregon and just rural Idaho in general. Plus, rather infamously, there's China, which should have six timezones like Canada, but instead has just one. Good luck getting people in the far western and eastern parts of the country to use Beijing's clock, though...
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