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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008>Vernon Cole claimed
to me that we need a new time zone for West Wendover, Nevada. After checking the
case I think he is right. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008>West Wendover lies
close to Wendover, Utah, but according to state border application they are on
Pacific time while Wendover is on Mountain time. West Wendover seems to have a
history long back of using Mountain time for convenience, but that use was never
official. The main reason is that every most relations to other geographic
locations close-by will be using Mountain time, and the bigger cities on the
Nevada region are 100 miles or more from West Wendover. Apparently real problems
began in the eighties and nineties when the city council began to insist on
using Pacific time officially. In 1999 the DOT approved an application from West
Wendover about shifting to Mountain time officially and on a permanent basis,
using DST etc. The exact moment of application was opportune, the 31.st. of
October 1999 at 2:00 PDT (GMT-7) when most of Nevada went back to PST (GMT-8)
then West Wendover just stayed on GMT-7 (Mountain Standard
Time).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008>The case of the
Nevada northern border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), which is also using
Mountain time is different, because they seem to have been using Mountain time
"always" so they can use time zone America/Denver.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008>The legislation is
resumed here:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008><A
href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=99-27240-filed">http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=99-27240-filed</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008>There is some of the
history on the Wikipedia page:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=796153319-09112008><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wendover">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wendover</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Jesper Nørgaard Welen<BR>Email:
jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx <BR>Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto)
Software<BR>CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y
Trigo<BR>Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard<BR>Km. 45, Carretera
México-Veracruz<BR>El Batán<BR>Texcoco, Edo. de México<BR>CP 56130
MEXICO<BR>Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext.
1374<BR>Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58<BR>Tel. Casa:
53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78<BR>Download the shareware program World
Time Explorer, I made:<BR><A
href="http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html">http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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