Ted Molczan wrote: > I wrote: > >>I will attempt to find out the time the video was shot. If it >>was within a few minutes of 20:12 UTC (4:12 PM EDT), then >>that would make it pretty much certain that it was the >>Proton-K Auxiliary Motor in question. > > I have since found that the state of Indiana does not observe daylight savings > time; therefore, the local time of the decay would have been near 3:12 PM EST. Off-topic sort of, but in the interests of accurate timekeeping: More correctly, Indiana is one of a handful of states which do not observe DST statewide. However, Indiana is different from the other two (Arizona and Hawaii) in that part of the state observes DST and part does not. Even more bizarrely, IN is technically in violation of federal law and has been since 1966, when the Uniform Time Act was passed, standardizing the beginning and end of DST and decreeing that a state could opt out of DST if it passed a state law, but then the whole state had to stay on standard time year round. In 1972 the law was amended to allow a state split in two time zones (as is the case with IN) to observe DST in the western time and standard time in the eastern, so for the duration of DST the state is on the same time. IN took advantage of this, except for 5 counties in the east (two near Cincinnati and three near Louisville) which observe DST. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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