This is from the National Institute of Standards and Technology:

The official US time

Click on your time zone and watch what happens! :)

Cool. I see that my atomic clock is accurate :)

It is 10:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time for me!! My clocks are always off by at least two minutes!

Pretty cool capt.
Stringer

So why are there two parts to the Mountain Time zone??
Hey I'm a Brit I don't know!

"cause the other mountain time zone does not recognize the time change in the spring and fall.

That makes a twisted sort of sense I suppose.
Ta much

Makes no sense when you travel there. Lol. But - to each their own and I guess each state has the right to do that. Daylight Savings Time does not make much sense anyway. Why cut off one end of the blanket just to sew it onto the other end?

History of Daylight Time in the U.S.

Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act.

This is article is too funny:
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History of Daylight Time in the U.S.

Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act.

This is article is funny:
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Capt... your resources are unlimited, that was funny.

Some of the myths I have heard are;

1. Has something to do with more daylight for the farmers (but now they have tractor cabs with lights, heaters, air conditioning, music, t.v. wet bar,. ), I don't think that is valid anymore even if it was at some time.

2. I've heard the excuse that it allows more daylight for children when they are coming home from school. But in the dead of winter it's dark by 4-4:30 pm?

I don't understand why they just down discontinue it.

I did enjoy the map... thanks, Stringer

Say now, I smell a conspiracy theory coming on between Daylight Savings Time and the Global Warming. Where is Al Gore when I need him?

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Originally Posted by CaptainRich

History of Daylight Time in the U.S.

Although standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads in 1883, it was not established in U.S. law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act.

This is article is too funny:
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Lol. So this is actually for real! Maybe the congressman who insisted on a hotel room with an ocean view (in Orlando) was actually for real too ; when he insisted to his travel agent that "he looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state!" Maybe not just an e-mail urban legend after all!