[tz] Chicago on Eastern Time in 1936
Garrett Wollman
wollman at bimajority.org
Sun Oct 23 16:27:16 UTC 2011
There are no comments in the "northamerica" file explaining Chicago's
brief stint on EST. I ran across a small article in /Broadcasting/
magazine (dated November 11, 1935), which read thus:
Chicago Going EST
CHICAGO'S radio goes on a time parity with New York March 1,
1936, when by order of the City Council it will push its
clocks forward an hour and function on Eastern Standard Time
the year round. The ruling of the council, however, does not
provide for pushing the clocks forward still another hour when
New York and many other cities go on Daylight Savings Time
during the summer. Nevertheless, the parity of time between
Chicago and the East is expected to ease radio scheduling
considerably, especially of programs keyed to networks from
Chicago.
-GAWollman
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