On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:08:05 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote > > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. > >Not exactly. Prime time shows are *not* delayed for Central time. It's >just that 8pm Eastern and 7PM Central are exactly the same time. > I said "Mountain", but the line break obscured it somewnat.
>Pacific shows are 'normally' delayed 2 hours. An 8PM Eastern show will >show at 8PM Pacific. Back when Mountain time did not observe daylight ... > Pacific is *three* hours behind Eastern. >savings time, the broadcasts were delayed 2 hours in Mountain time since >half the year they were on Pacific time. I don't know what they do now. > As I said above, they're delayed one hour so they appear one hour earlier clock time. > > But there's the school bus problem. >Not really. It would actually make the bus problem worse. It's really >the 'I want some time to go fishing or boating after work' problem. > I meant the DST problem. In late October children are crossing streets before sunrise. (I think we're in agreement.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
