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From: gayde@iwu1b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Weird Time Zones
Message-ID: <103@iwu1b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 17:40:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 17:40:33 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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Can someone from Canada explain to me the reason why Newfoundland
chooses to be 30 minutes out of sync with the rest of the Eastern
Time Zone? Are there any other similar examples of this in the
world?

Related to the above questions, I once noticed that there is a 2
hour time difference at the border between Canada (Yukon) and
Alaska.  It seems that the Yukon is in the Pacific Time Zone and
Alaska is in the Alaska-Hawaii Time Zone while the Yukon Time Zone
(which never touches the Yukon!!!) ends in Southeastern Alaska just
Northwest of Juneau (you really have to look at a map to see what
I'm talking about). As I'm writing this my office-mate tells me
that all of this is about to change shortly when Alaska revises
its time zones. Can anyone sort out all of this confusion?

	Peter Gayde
	Western Electric
	Naperville, IL