sandiegoIn the 1970 BN timetable the time change was at Williston, N. D. (120 miles west of Minot and still in Central zone). When I was working for the BN (1989-on) Williston was no longer a crew change and ID crews ran from Minot through Williston to Glascow or Havre (don't remember which). Kurt Hayek
The sign just across the Soo Line diamond from the Minot station must have been installed after the change in crew districts.
Before the use of DST was standardized in the 1960s some railroads printed both standard and daylight time schedules in the Official Guide, or at least noted both at major interchange points like Chicago.
tree68 jeffhergert That seems to be the general attitude, that's developed over the last 30 or so years, towards anyone who works in a blue collar job. No matter where they live. It also seems to be the general attitude of those who live on the coasts, with regard to those in "flyover country..."
jeffhergert That seems to be the general attitude, that's developed over the last 30 or so years, towards anyone who works in a blue collar job. No matter where they live.
It also seems to be the general attitude of those who live on the coasts, with regard to those in "flyover country..."
What a country we are living in these days! It's interesting to read (again) about how blue collar folks and flyover country folks both feel dumped on by the liberal elites on the coasts. In my small town Ohio newspaper there is a column where people can call or send in unsigned comments; as with the Internet, anonymity seems to bring out the worst in some of our fellow citizens.
In that column I have not ever read even one comment by a seemingly-educated person in which he or she denigrates blue collar or working class people. But every single day there are comments mocking and ridiculing educated people (we have a big state college in town). "Educated idiots" is one of the nicer terms that often appear. Our local FM station's all-talk format has the same kinds of name calling daily. It seems today that fear and loathing of elites, liberals, and educated people in general is running abroad in our nation. Was it not yesterday that a Michigan politician said that what college students need today is, "another Kent State"?
As far as the folks in flyover country, of whom I am one, go, it's been a popular pastime for years to make fun of New Yorkers, New Englanders, and Californians. People in Ohio regularly sneer at high-falutin people in fly-to country. Do not unreconstructed Southerners laugh at how crazy and unAmerican those liberals in California are, while at the same time taking all the California cash their Congressman can get for their ungrateful and poor districts?
Whether of the working class or the supposed "elites," the Americans I prefer are the ones who believe and say this:
"I'm no better than you are...
but I'll be damned if I'm not just as good."
Back to the topic, China has only one time zone. It's stupid for such a large country.
*EDIT:* Yes, China absolutely does have only one time zone.
https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/china-only-has-one-time-zone-and-thats-a-problem/281136/
aegrotatio Back to the topic, China has only one time zone. It's stupid for such a large country.
Sorry that is incorrect.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=china+time+zones&qpvt=china+time+zones&qpvt=china+time+zones&qpvt=china+time+zones&FORM=IGRE
The Russia answer has been found and it is now 9 time zones.
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/rutimes.htm
Sorry, that is very incorrect. I visited China and it indeed only has one time zone.
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