Vernon Cole claimed to me that we need a new time zone for West Wendover, Nevada. After checking the case I think he is right. West Wendover lies close to Wendover, Utah, but according to state border application they are on Pacific time while Wendover is on Mountain time. West Wendover seems to have a history long back of using Mountain time for convenience, but that use was never official. The main reason is that every most relations to other geographic locations close-by will be using Mountain time, and the bigger cities on the Nevada region are 100 miles or more from West Wendover. Apparently real problems began in the eighties and nineties when the city council began to insist on using Pacific time officially. In 1999 the DOT approved an application from West Wendover about shifting to Mountain time officially and on a permanent basis, using DST etc. The exact moment of application was opportune, the 31.st. of October 1999 at 2:00 PDT (GMT-7) when most of Nevada went back to PST (GMT-8) then West Wendover just stayed on GMT-7 (Mountain Standard Time). The case of the Nevada northern border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), which is also using Mountain time is different, because they seem to have been using Mountain time "always" so they can use time zone America/Denver. The legislation is resumed here: HYPERLINK "http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&doc id=99-27240-filed"http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname= 1999_register&docid=99-27240-filed There is some of the history on the Wikipedia page: HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wendover"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes t_Wendover Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: HYPERLINK "http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html"http://www.worldtimeexplorer.co m/index.html No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.9.0/1772 - Release Date: 2008-11-06 20:23
Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
Vernon Cole claimed to me that we need a new time zone for West Wendover, Nevada. After checking the case I think he is right.
On the other hand, one of the reasons that is used to justify the change of legal time zone is:
15. Historically, West Wendover has always operated on Mountain time. Prior to the 1980s, there was no reason to do otherwise because there was literally nothing to the town fifty yards past the state line. When West Wendover began to ``boom,'' the town tried to operate by Pacific time. According to the Mayor, this action created mass confusion for both residents and those outside the community.
So if tz is more interested in *actual* time zones than in *legal* time zones, then there is no need for a tz timezone; all we need is declare that the geographical extent of America/Denver includes West Wendover. I don't think that capturing the confusion that occurred during the trial is worth it. Eric.
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