Birds Nest Changes

[Stephen Birtles]

Railway time is a misnomer
IF someone asks what time will the customer get serviced the answer is
given in minutes.The following question is then asked is that railway
time or real time
real time is the actual time to perform the service
railway time is maybe sometime today or tomorrow

Stephen 77fc35


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Pete Masterson
wrote:
>
> In my early days working at a railroad, I became aware of "railroad
> time." Before the national "Uniform Time Act" that regularized
> observance of daylight savings time, the railroads simply stayed on
> Standard Time year round. None of that silly military time for the
> American railroads ... they used AM and PM -- but to ensure clarity,
> trains rarely every arrived or departed exactly at noon or midnight
> -- it was the normal course to establish a departure at (say) 12:01
> AM -- funny, how adding the extra minute seems to solve the confusion.
>
> The standard time all the time, did generate confusion -- after
> giving a train schedule, I'd often be asked, "Is that your time or my
> time?" -- even when a local daylight savings time was not in effect.
>
> The Uniform Time Act did solve the problem, since the railroads had
> to comply with the law and publish their schedules observing daylight
> time. The unintended result was, however, is a bit silly. The
> railroads have a rule that no train shall leave its station before
> the scheduled time. All over the country, on 'fall back' day, trains
> come rolling to a stop and sit for an hour, so that they don't leave
> a station before the scheduled time. Of course on 'spring forward'
> day, a lot of trains are suddenly "late."
>
> Pete Masterson
> '95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
> aeonix1@...
> On the road at Lockhart, TX
>
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Frank Damp wrote:
>
> > Military time saves a lot of misunderstandings. Midnight is 00:00,
> > noon
> > is 12:00.
> >
>