Re: Time in South Dakota (Date and Time on Cindu)

David McCann wrote:
>ROGER MILLS wrote
>
> > I was born sometime in the morning hours of May 23, in the Central Time
>Zone. So technically my
> > assumption 0000 (CST) 23 May 1934 = Cindu 0000 1/1/702 (IIRC) was based
>on that.
>
>South Dakota had no Daylight Saving from 1920 to 1941 inclusive, so
>you're OK.
Thanks for determining that. I suspected as much.

DST in the USA is always a bit of a mystery: my source shows
>that in South Dakota, Jefferson, Vermillion, and Yankton all had it in
>1964 for that year only, but no one seems to know why or when.
That is strange. How about Sioux Falls (my home town, and the largest city
in the state)? Like the towns mentioned, it's very close to Iowa and
Minnesota-- perhaps those states went to DST and some of the border towns in
SD didn't want to be too much out of whack with their general region????

Until relatively recently (the last 15-20 yrs maybe?), some states (even
portions of states) refused to go on DST. IIRC Indiana (most of which is
EST) was one; because when Illinois goes to CDT, (plus the NW/SW corners of
Indiana), then all of Indiana has one time (CDT being = EST).  I think other
divided states used to use the same excuse (but I'm not sure if they still
do).

Michigan, properly, should be divided roughly down the middle between ET and
CT; but the whole state is ET, I suppose for commercial reasons. That means
that my little town on the shores of Lake Michigan (~90 miles E of
Chicago/Milwaukee) has very late sunsets on Summer DST (great!).

http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/time_zone.shtml

I don't know why Arizona doesn't observe DST. Just generally contrarian
perhaps?

ObConculture: I've never determined the actual time zones on Cindu, but
generally they have to cover 18 degress of longitude (20 "hrs." in their
"day"). At one point I considered having the Circle circle/globe consist of
400 "degrees" but my math skills simply weren't up to the task, so I stayed
with 360.

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