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Donahoo wrote:I wish they would leave the time alone. Saturday night after I finished changing all the clocks, it was 1:30 - in the morning! And this morning I was still awake at 1:00 and, of course, didn't want to get up when the alarm went off.

Yup and double dang it!!

LHawke wrote:Except that instead of April, it is now in March. And didn't we change them in November instead of October last time?
4 states don't do it, why do the rest of us have to?????

I recently read the railroads had something to do with the time zones. That's away back when the RR first started operating hauling freight and people. I don't remember what their reason was.

"I don't remember what their reason was."

To confuse us?

The railroads set the thing up back then because prior to that, every town had its own time zone, probably a few minutes different than its neighbors to the east and west.

Henry

lswot wrote:"I don't remember what their reason was."

To confuse us?

I don't think they ever gave a care to what everyday citizens thought.

So you think they were just trying to railroad the everyday citizens?

Henry J wrote:So you think they were just trying to railroad the everyday citizens?

This may be obvious, but it was so the train schedules would be correct as much as possible. The railroads didn't want to print a schedule or tell someone they would arrive in say, Padukah, at 10:05 when Padukah's time was 5-10 minutes different from the starting point. Airlines today have the same issues, even with the times being standardized. I had a poor Asian couple asking me why it took 1.5 hours to get from Denver to San Francisco and 3.5 hours to go the other way. I had to explain the time zone difference to them several times before they understood that leaving SF at 0900 meant getting into Denver at 12:30 DENVER time, but it would only be 11:30 SF time and vice versa, leaving Denver at 0900 and getting into SF at 10:30 meant that it was actually 11:30 in Denver. 2.5 hours each way. Don't thank me, I was happy to do my worldwide civic duty.

Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused.

Henry J wrote:Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused.

LHawke wrote:

Henry J wrote:Asian couple? Somebody from China might have trouble with time zones; that whole country is in one time zone, even though it's as wide east to west as the U.S. I guess they didn't want people to be confused.

Here we go again!

what, nobody found time to gripe about the time?

What time? Was in Vegas at the *time* and who cares?

Decided to watch AVATAR again Saturday night so we set the clocks back BEFORE we started the movie.

Xjmt wrote:Decided to watch AVATAR again Saturday night so we set the clocks back BEFORE we started the movie.

I like my excuse better!