Hi all, Perhaps this topic is a bit off list but does anyone on the list know how the U.S. armed forces set their clocks and watches during the Pacific campaigns from 1942 to 1945?
Did they adopt a common time zone (Hawaii, Midway, UT, UT+12h) or did they adopt the time zone of the region that they happened to be operating in? Are there any official documents that can provide more information? I am interested in this question as I am currently doing some research on timekeeping in the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and I know that during the Japanese occupation the whole region was forced to adopt the time zone of Tokyo (UT+9h). I assume that this was also so in the other territories occupied by the Japanese so that military operations directed from Tokyo could be co-ordinated more efficiently. But what was the Americans practice, I wonder? If anyone knows, I would be grateful to hear of it. Thanks in advance, ======================================================= * Robert H. van Gent * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Homepage: http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/homepage.htm * ======================================================= -
