Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." An AltaVista search turned up http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html by way of confirmation. The "northamerica" time zone file already has information about Eastern War Time during World War II... Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S ...and presumably what's needed is a line between these two such as... Rule US 1945 only - Sep 2 h:mmu 1:00 P # Peace ...where h:mm is the time that the document ending the war was signed. And so, two questions: 1. What are the correct values for h and mm above? 2. Was that indeed the instant when the switch from War Time to Peace Time occurred? Thanks in advance for any light that folks can shed! --ado
<<On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:48:18 -0400, "Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> said:
...and presumably what's needed is a line between these two such as... Rule US 1945 only - Sep 2 h:mmu 1:00 P # Peace ...where h:mm is the time that the document ending the war was signed.
According to <http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/js-8g.htm>, it was 9:22 AM local time. It seems conceivable that the folks at history.navy.mil who wrote these pages could assist in identifying the time zone used on board the USS Missouri while stationed in Tokyo Bay. -GAWollman
<<On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:00:13 -0400 (EDT), Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> said:
It seems conceivable that the folks at history.navy.mil who wrote these pages could assist in identifying the time zone used on board the USS Missouri while stationed in Tokyo Bay.
Further details.... According to <http://www.spclevents.com/ships/missouri/bb63_pod.html>, on that day, sunrise was at 05:14 and sunset was at 18:07. That should make it possible to compute the timezone in use. -GAWollman
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