Eastern Peace Time

Olson, Arthur David (NCI) olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Mon Sep 25 18:48:18 UTC 2000


Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." An AltaVista
search turned up
	http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html
by way of confirmation.

The "northamerica" time zone file already has information about Eastern War
Time during World War II...
	Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00
W # War
	Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0
S
...and presumably what's needed is a line between these two such as...
	Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	2	h:mmu	1:00
P # Peace
...where h:mm is the time that the document ending the war was signed.

And so, two questions:
1.	What are the correct values for h and mm above?
2.	Was that indeed the instant when the switch from War Time to Peace
Time occurred?

Thanks in advance for any light that folks can shed!

				--ado







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