[tz] 1 s error in America/Adak and America/Nome

Michael H Deckers michael.h.deckers at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 15 07:21:54 UTC 2017


    On 2017-06-14 19:44, Paul Eggert wrote:
> +# presumably to get two Sundays off that week.  See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P).
    which could perhaps be misinterpreted as
    if it was the choice of Sitka workers. From
    [Ian R Bartky: "One Time Fits All: The
     Campaigns for Global Uniformity".
     Stanford University Press. 2007. p 24..26]
    about the time after 1867-10-18:

    "..in Alaska two Sabbaths continued to be observed
     every week. According to George Davidson, a
     contemporary field geodesist and astronomer who
     investigated the matter,
        "[T]he Holy Orthodox Church in Alaska did
         not change until January 1st 1871 by order
         of Right Reverend John [Ioann Mitropol'skii],
         Bishop of Alaska & the Aleutian Islands." "

    Michael Deckers.



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