On 2017-06-14 01:17, Michael Deckers via tz wrote:
On 2017-06-12 16:17, Paul Eggert wrote:
• assumptions that the day of the week was set back from Saturday to Friday at 15:30 or at 15:33:32 local time The proposed change would make civil time at Sitka switch from Saturday, 1867-10-19 15:30 to Friday, 1867-10-18 15:30. If that is not how things have happened then the proposal should, in my humble opinion, be changed to something that could have happened, even if it becomes less interesting culturally. Is "kept American time" supposed to imply that Americans in Sitka did not use the same days of the week as the Russians? That would be hard to believe and certainly would need some evidence.
The International Date Line runs between Siberia and Alaska so the day changed because of the time zone change from + to -. The calendar also changed in Alaska, as Russia still used the Julian calendar, until 1918. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada