Re: Railway time (Standard Time) undone once again in the United States.
Author: George Andrews
Date: 03-08-2015 - 10:24
The U.S. Time Zones as established by the Railroads are not always easy to understand, either. Idaho is in both Pacific and Mountain time zones, split North and South. Oregon is in Pacific time zone EXCEPT for Ontario in Eastern Oregon, which is on Mountain time. This is due to the railroad crew change point being located there. Yet an East train crew going on duty in Sandpoint,Idaho ( Pacific time zone ) started out on Mountain time !!! I know this was to allow a train crew to stay on one time zone for their entire run, but still, it's confusing.
If you REALLY want to be confused, try being an over the road trucker. Federal regulations require a truck driver to keep log books based on the time at their home domicsle, which means a trucker based in the Pacific time zone has to keep subtracting an hour from the local time for each new time zone from West to East that they drive into. This is great fun when driving from California through Arizona, as you have to remember whether it's Daylight time or Standard time. I used to keep a small travel alarm clock set to " California Time " in my cab, so I would not forget to subtract an hour when running a lay - over to Arizona points.