Re: [tz] DST in Detroit 1967
Alois Treindl wrote:
So whether it was DST or not, at the time given in the article light cannot have started to fail
That depends on what the article's author Bill Dow meant by "fail". In a burning city, light could "fail" well before astronomical sunset.
You say in your comment that you have seen "multiple reports that (Shanks DST data) is incorrect."
I am curious what those other reports might be.
Sorry, I don't remember the details. As I vaguely recall, the situation in Michigan was chaotic. The state rebelled against the federal daylight-saving law, some counties rebelled against the state, cases went to the state supreme court which may have (temporarily?) suspended the state's suspension of DST, and I don't know of any reliable catalog of what actually happened that year in Detroit. Perhaps someone could spring the money and read all the stories in the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News archives related to daylight saving time that year. I expect there would be dozens of stories to wade through. Let's hope the competing newspapers in Detroit didn't follow the model of Nashville in the previous decade. That Nashville story is so entertaining that it should be promoted from our email archive to the northamerica comments. Proposed patch attached.
Paul Eggert wrote:
Perhaps someone could spring the money and read all the stories in the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News archives related to daylight saving time that year. I expect there would be dozens of stories to wade through.
A friend got access and there were indeed many, many stories in the Detroit Free Press (the News was not available). It does appear that our baseball story got the details wrong: although Detroit indeed did not observe DST when DST started in 1967, on June 14 Detroit changed and started observing DST, which means the July baseball game in question was using DST. Proposed patch attached. For 1967 and 1968 in Detroit, this doesn't match either Shanks or timeanddate.com exactly (they disagree with each other), but it does match the Detroit Free Press. The situation in Michigan back then was complicated, with different towns using different rules even within the same county, and with federal, state, county, and local authorities all dueling with each other, and with some businesses putting up two clocks for their confused customers. It's not at all clear what happened in Menominee, so I left that entry alone. Apparently if one wants to read back issues of the Menominee newspaper, one must go to a library in Lansing which has them on microfilm, as the back issues do not appear to be online.
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