01-16-15 03:31 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Older.   
      
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    DS> Ed,   
   Howdy! Daryl,   
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    DS>   I've heard talk that they were going to change the Daylight   
    DS> Savings Time again...either make it year round, or something   
    DS> else. I wish they'd decide on one format, and leave it that   
    DS> way. For that matter, the times of year that the U.S. may be on   
    DS> DST, other parts of the world are not. Plus, UTC time is used   
    DS> by both ham radio operators in net logs, and with weather   
    DS> forecast model data, and other products (in Z (Zulu) time).   
      
   By Rights Then, this area should be returned to the Central Time Zone.   
   That is where we are physically on the Globe of the Earth.   
      
   As I said to Holger just now, I've never used UTC for anything that   
   is related to Amateur Radio.   
      
   The Military and Government folks and some Commercial folks have more   
   use for UTC than I do.   
      
   I forgot to mention to Holger about when I was aboard ship in the   
   Pacific Ocean the Main Radio Room called "Main Comm" had a UTC Clock   
   that the Boatswain Mate had to come into Main Comm periodically to put   
   a Key in the Ships Clocks to Wind Up the clock.   
   So he was a regular visitor to Main Comm.   
      
   It was also His Duty to change the Time on all ships clocks when the   
   ship entered a different Time Zone.   
      
   One day he wound the UTC clock and moved the time back an hour on it.   
      
   A few hours after he left Main Comm the Watch Supervisor noticed two   
   outgoing messages with the same Date Time Group when he was looking   
   through the Outgoing Traffic Log.   
      
   He discovered that the UTC clock had been set back and had to call the   
   Captains Mast on the intercom and ask the Boatswain Mate to come down   
   to Main Comm and reset the UTC Clock.   
      
   That Clock in Main Comm had a piece of paper taped to it saying it was   
   showing UTC Time.   
      
   I guess it was just a routine thing for the Boatswain Mate to wind the   
   clocks when ever he had to change the Time Zone on all of the clocks on   
   the ship.   
   He probably had 100 or 200 clocks to set each time he made his rounds.   
   It was just an honest mistake, but it caused some extra trouble for the   
   Radio Room to send out Error Messages about the mix up.   
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