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August 8th 11, 01:07 PM
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Electric Timekeeping vs Hooterville
m II wrote: dave wrote: To make things more "normal" to humans, who seem to like "Noon" to be when the sun is "straight up", the four "time zones" "Eastern", "Central", "Mountain", and "Pacific" were established and the standard time in these zones, "adjusted" so as to be an hour different east to west, keeping "noon" close to where it should occur in the day as the sun passed overhead. They conveniently forgot to mention it was a Canadian, Sandford Fleming, who invented standard time. Wow, a Canuck invented time! LMFAO! dxAce Michigan USA |
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