{"id":8896,"date":"2006-03-28T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/28\/the-slow-return-to-analog-time.html"},"modified":"2006-03-28T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T20:48:55","slug":"the_slow_return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/28\/the_slow_return.html","title":{"rendered":"The slow return to analog time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time zones were created in order to facilitate the railroad, so that schedules could be set and train arrivals and departures tracked.  The division of the world into roughly 24 different time zones makes for some amusing incongruities, especially when the line gets shifted around to match geographical and political boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time off in Europe and elsewhere) further complicated things, especially when it was not universally adopted (even within the US).  Margie used to joke about when she was liviing in Indiana that part of the year she was on New York time, the rest of the year on Chicago time.<\/p>\n<p>But at least it was a twice-a-year disconnect (with maybe a week or two between North America and Europe to be out of sync, as Margie and I discovered on a trip to the UK a few years back).  But politicians keep screwing around with things, as is their wont, and the whole system is beginning to unravel in a way that everyone think will be handled neatly by computers &#8212; but will not be.<\/p>\n<p>So now the US, for example is, arbitrarily changing its DST dates, despite the impact on other countries that try to stay in sync with us.  Australia &#8212; well, <em>some <\/em>of Australia &#8212; delayed their DST by a week to accomodate the Commonwealth Games, which has led to <a href=\"http:\/\/fatcaterpillar.org\/journal\/2006\/03\/27\/when_daylight_savings_attacks.php\" target=\"_blank\">computer calendar mishaps<\/a>.  And that same story mentions that next year, <em>some <\/em>Canadian provinces are changing their own DST cutover dates (apparently to stay in sync with the US), but not others.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.  Maybe we should just go to reckoning things based on where the sun is in the sky.  Or else by what&#8217;s on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time zones were created in order to facilitate the railroad, so that schedules could be set and train arrivals and departures tracked. 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