--- northamerica | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 505300a..a014126 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -348,6 +348,18 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 # Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, # western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin +# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07): +# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep +# time. Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the +# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall, +# which then sent signals to police and fire stations. However, railroads got +# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory, +# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each +# other or with the city's official time. The confusion took some years to +# clear up. See: +# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04. +# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-It... + # From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: # https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf # is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local -- 2.7.4