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Thursday, July 24, 2014

a half hour

Did you know that Newfoundland is in a half hour time zone?

Newfoundland is the only place in North America that wears a half hour difference from the next timezone. It's a half hour later than Atlantic time, an hour and a half later than my home Eastern time zone.

from http://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html:

Newfoundland does not follow the rest of Canada in keeping time because of two main reasons. First, while Newfoundland is located in the UTC-4 timezone, it is exactly three and a half hours from UTC as measured by a sun dial. Second, the legislation that decided the time offset for the province was passed in 1935, 14 years before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.

Really? Three and a half hours by sun dial?