Robert: I recall when we were on Central time, and Lexington was on Eastern time. That lasted more or less until 1950. When I graduated from college in 1948, I started working as a young architect for my father in Louisville, but we had jobs in eastern and western Kentucky, and some in Indiana and Illinois. It was usually my job to go around and inspect these jobs as the building were being constructed. The time zones in the winter were simple enough, but in Kentucky right after the war, the various counties had the option of going on Daylight Saving Time; some did and some did not.
Talk about confusing? I never knew if I were going to arrive two hours late or two hours early. I tried to get to the wet counties two hours early, and the dry counties two hours late. Then the Koran war came along in the summer of 1950, and I got called back into the navy, and didn't have to worry about those kind of problems. Neal Hammon On Jan 45, 1120092007, at 2:28 PM, Robert Kersting wrote: Louisville used to be on Central time. In fact, along with a lot of other Louisville natives on here, I was born at 7:28 CST. I'm not sure when it changed, but that's what caused the "bulge." I would imagine it had something to do with being on the same time as Frankfort, but what do I know. It caused us trouble during the summer at a theatre I used to work at since our first show started at 7. People would come in for the show in broad daylight and they would leave 90 minutes later in broad daylight. Not really pleasant for a night club audience. Speaking of Louisville in general, did you realize that Louisville is the only city on I-65 where truck traffic is not routed around the city? rob > Re. Time Zones > When I first moved to Louisville in the 80s I marveled at how the time > zone line on the map had this big bulge to the west around Louisville. > Indianapolis and Nashville, only slightly to the west of us were in > Central Time and we were in Eastern Time. Recently that has changed as > much of Indiana has chosen to join the Eastern contingent, but it is > remarkable how time zone boundaries are seemingly more a product of > politics than mathematics. _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
