Hi Tony, I think you have something there. I have an aunt and uncle that ran a dairy farm 600 miles west of us in Kansas. We were both on Central time. They often bemoaned the concept of "daylight" time. They compared it to the ( fill in the ethnic group) who would cut off one foot ( 30 cm) of their blanket and sew it onto the other end to make it longer. Since their cows failed to notice the time change, my aunt complained about how their shopping in town needed adjustment twice a year.
I was a teen before I figured out why Kansas was light at 9:30pm in the summer, when Illinois was dark around 8:30. When in Belgium and The Netherlands in 2000, I was further surprised to see it light out at 11:00pm in July. This is one of the reasons I like Italian and Babylonian hours on sundials .. they don't depend on daylight saving nor even the time zone. By the way -- The new statewide daylight law in Indiana did not mention if Indiana is still split between Eastern and Central time zone. At one time counties in Indiana near Chicago were Central and rest of the state was Eastern. I bet they only passed the law to avoid the loss of federal funds -- another way the federal government persuades the states. The "right thing to do" -- yeah right. Warren Thom From: "tony moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > Ever one for 'raising hares' but re. DST USA is it/was it true > that some US agricultural areas stick to what became known as 'cow time'? > Thus making for strange anomolies in short-haul domestic airline flights? > > Tony Moss. > - -
