Next message: Dan Allen: "Re: Cell phone time, etc"
Lu Abel wrote:
>
> Frank Reed wrote:
>
> > I wonder if cell phone companies actively seek locations for their
> > towers so that their cells do not straddle time zone boundaries...
>
> Okay, here's a challenge for a list member living in or visiting
> southern Nevada or northern Arizona. Drive out to Hoover Dam. The
> Arizona/Nevada border runs right down the middle of the Colorado river.
> The two states are in different time zones (Pacific for Nevada,
> Mountain for Arizona). Plus Arizona does not observe Daylight time.
> (The time zone difference is uniquely emphasized by clocks at either end
> of the dam showing local time.)
>
> US highway 93 runs right across the top of the dam. It would be an
> interesting experiment to track cell phone time display whilst driving
> across the dam...
>
> Lu Abel
Can't do it now. We are on daylight savings time in California/Nevada.
Arizona does not have daylight savings, so for 6 months it is the same
time in California/Nevada as it is in Arizona.
Gordon
