Subj : Re: Daylight Savings
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Ed Vance
Date : Mon Mar 24 2025 01:20 pm


> ould

> They taught us that it was always the 21st, too, but even back then I know
> sometimes it seemed like a season would start a day early.  We had a leap
> year last year so I wonder if that has something to do with it.

> They do also adjust the "official" clocks every now and then to add leap
> seconds.  I have not heard about that in a long time but I know they used
> to sometimes mention it on the national news.

>  * SLMR 2.1a * 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.


You mentioning "official time" reminded Me of the UTC/GMT Clock in the Radio
Room on a Navy Ship I served on.

There were two Wind up Clocks in that room called Main Comm, one clock showed
GMT, the other clock had to have the Hour Hand set as the Ship moved from one
Longitude to another Longitude.

A Boatswain Mate had the job of carrying the Key to wind Clocks aboard the Ship
and one day both clocks in Main Comm got set back One Hour.

Radiomen in the Radio Room would call Main Comm on the intercom to get a DTG
(Date - Time - Group) when a new message was going to be sent out, and Main
Comm would look at the GMT Clock and issue the time for the message
Later it was noticed that there was a message that was sent from the Ship with
a Duplicate Time.

Another message(s) was sent out to correct the DTG for the Dupe Message.
Fun times in the Main Radio Room! ;)
Ed
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