Note on I've Found the Comments in the Database Files (e.g. North America via shagie

I’ve found the comments in the database files (e.g. North America https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica ) to be an interesting documentation of the history of the definition of time for various areas. For example, Indiana https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica#L846

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I've Found the Comments in the Database Files (e.g. North America

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Really great reading on people fighting concepts of time and timezones.

From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30):

A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored “fast time”) tussled with farm legislators (who didn’t) over a bill to outlaw DST:

“Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland, R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process. The clock sticks on 9 as the debate rages on into the night. The filibuster finally dies out and the bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m. In the end, it doesn’t matter which side won. The law has no enforcement powers and is simply ignored by fast-time communities.”

How Indiana went from ‘God’s time’ to split zones and daylight-saving. Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05.