01-16-15 03:31 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Older.

 DS> {at}MSGID: 
 DS> Ed,
Howdy! Daryl,
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 DS>   I've heard talk that they were going to change the Daylight
 DS> Savings Time again...either make it year round, or something
 DS> else. I wish they'd decide on one format, and leave it that
 DS> way. For that matter, the times of year that the U.S. may be on
 DS> DST, other parts of the world are not. Plus, UTC time is used
 DS> by both ham radio operators in net logs, and with weather
 DS> forecast model data, and other products (in Z (Zulu) time).

By Rights Then, this area should be returned to the Central Time Zone.
That is where we are physically on the Globe of the Earth.

As I said to Holger just now, I've never used UTC for anything that
is related to Amateur Radio.

The Military and Government folks and some Commercial folks have more
use for UTC than I do.

I forgot to mention to Holger about when I was aboard ship in the
Pacific Ocean the Main Radio Room called "Main Comm" had a UTC Clock
that the Boatswain Mate had to come into Main Comm periodically to put
a Key in the Ships Clocks to Wind Up the clock.
So he was a regular visitor to Main Comm.

It was also His Duty to change the Time on all ships clocks when the
ship entered a different Time Zone.

One day he wound the UTC clock and moved the time back an hour on it.

A few hours after he left Main Comm the Watch Supervisor noticed two
outgoing messages with the same Date Time Group when he was looking
through the Outgoing Traffic Log.

He discovered that the UTC clock had been set back and had to call the
Captains Mast on the intercom and ask the Boatswain Mate to come down
to Main Comm and reset the UTC Clock.

That Clock in Main Comm had a piece of paper taped to it saying it was
showing UTC Time.

I guess it was just a routine thing for the Boatswain Mate to wind the
clocks when ever he had to change the Time Zone on all of the clocks on
the ship.
He probably had 100 or 200 clocks to set each time he made his rounds.
It was just an honest mistake, but it caused some extra trouble for the
Radio Room to send out Error Messages about the mix up.
73

... I started out with nothing & have most of it left.
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