GDG- Re: Standard time

[Bob Huddleston]

Does sound like an April Fool joke, doesn't it? 

IIRC, there was also a side bar in an early Gettysburg magazine on Time in
the Battle. 

Take care,

Bob

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-----Original Message-----
From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com]
On Behalf Of Biggsk at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:35 PM
To: gettysburg at arthes.com
Subject: GDG- Re: Standard time

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


 
Bob Huddleston writes:


>>>>Standard Time was established in the United States  and Canada on 18
November 1883, in order to standardize railroad schedules.  Before that
communities used local sun time, and the military, when it was  concerned
about exact time, would have used the Washington Naval Observatory  time.
However, no one really cared about exact time. That is a 20th Century
Phenomena. The one exception to that was ships trying to locate their
longitude. There is a useful discussion at
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones.html  >>>>



Someone in an old issue of Blue & Gray Magazine wrote an essay on time  in
the Civil War.  He stated, for example, that the State of Georgia back  then
had
6 different time zones, which just had to be a nightmare for train
schedules to make!!!!
 
Greg Biggs



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