Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update

Mark Reed wrote:
>On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>
> > OMG I never even thought of that..... (Does UTC = GMT?)
>
>The short answer is "yes"(*).
I'm relieved to hear that.>
>
> > I was born sometime in the morning hours of May 23, in the Central Time
>Zone.
>
>US Central Time is nominally 6 hours west of GMT/UTC.  Was Daylight
>Saving Time in effect?
I doubt it very much, but we'd have to look up the history of DST. But of
course, South Dakota had very little contact with the snooty elitist East
Coast in those days; and as an agricultural state, would probably have opted
not to do DST anyway, as states could do in those days (it confuses the
cows, doncha know). I think year-round DST was adopted nationwide during WW
II; it might even have been standard time + 2 hrs. I do remember getting up
for school in winter at 7-8ish, still pitch dark outside, and we often saw
the moon set.....My poor father had to get going even earlier, as his job
was to get the city buses organized for their daily rounds.

Just checked-- 6 hours Terran is only 4.7431 hrs Cindu, by and large not
enough to worry about.

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