BC case, Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fascinating post about British Columbia time. It reminds me of something Oliver Wendell Holmes, when he was on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, ruled on some date after 1883-11-18 but before the adoption of the Standard Time Act of 1918. The LMT of a point in Massachusetts is approximately GMT-4:45, and EST=GMT-5:00. Holmes in his majority opinion wrote that the time of day specified in contracts, etc... was LMT regardless of what the railroads said, unless a governmental body chose to specify otherwise, which no doubt spurred the growth of standard time laws. Don't remember much more about it, but the full story is in "The History of American Time."