On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Tim  Shoppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks who do govt contract administration here in Washington DC still
> use 5PM DC time as the time bids must be submitted by, and up till
> a few years ago some of them still had shortwave receivers on
> their desk to officially close the bidding period, because as
> far as they could ascertain that was as close to
> official government time as they could get.
>
> I would guess "DCAS" time was Washington DC time.

Interesting info! This building is located in Detroit, though, which
is in the same time zone as DC. Unless perhaps there were some
DST-related (or other) subtleties involved...

In any case, thanks for the input!

-Rusty
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