The following are from amazon.com, special order, estimated delivery 4-6
weeks.  Most seem to have been published by various astrological presses,
originally in the mid 1960s.  Our local public library has several in their
reference section.

Time Changes in Canada and Mexico -- Doris C. Doane, 1980; Paperback $10.35
Doane's 1986-1990 World Wide Time Change Update -- Doris C. Doane, 1991,
Paperback  $9.35
Time Changes in the World (Except Canada, Mexico, USA) -- Doris C. Doane,
1982;
Paperback  $13.00
Time Changes in the U.S.A. --  Doris C. Doane, 1985,  $18.00

Gordon


At 07:42 AM 6/14/99 , William P Thayer wrote:
>The best reference for the introduction of mean solar time, and indeed for
>things such as railway time, local times, daylight savings time, etc. is a
>2-volume work by Doris Chase Doane. I'm quite positive about her name, but
>don't remember the title of the work itself; she is the authority used --
>hold your breath folks -- by professional astrologers, who of course need
>to know what variety of time they're delaing with for any given nativity.
>   The book is not that rare, possibly reprinted, it wouldn't surprise me,
>and can be found or ordered thru serious astrology supply houses. Vol. I
>covers the United States, Vol. II the rest of the world. That is not
>exactly chauvinism, BTW: due to our autonomous states, early railways over
>large distances in longitude, etc. the history of time zones in the US is
>unusually complicated.
>
>Bill Thayer
>   LacusCurtius
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.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman
> 
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