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Nov 14, 2003 | 7:04 pm

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TransWorldOne

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by amanuensis:
Thanks so much for marginalizing those of us who live in Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Colorado Springs, Boise ...

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Hey, those of us in Phoenix and Tucson are on "Arizona time." No daylight savings time here.

Nov 18, 2003 | 1:23 pm

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BTW, since I've been working more and more closely with teams in India over the past couple of years, I've taken to always writing my dates as DD-MMM-YY, as it is clear to either country and eliminates ambiguity or mistakes.

Nov 18, 2003 | 4:32 pm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TransWorldOne:
Hey, those of us in Phoenix and Tucson are on "Arizona time." No daylight savings time here.</font>

I wasn't saying that those in Phoenix and Tucson observed Daylight Savings Time; I know that you don't. I graduated from a high school in Tempe, Arizona, so I do know that much. However, there is no special Arizona time zone -- Arizona merely observes Mountain Standard Time (aka Sun Time) year round.

FWIW, I use the DD MMM YYYY format on everything I create, unless I am told to use a different format. As a professional genealogist that specializes in British and Australian research, it just makes everything simpler, especially since I frequently refer to dates that were not in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries, e.g., 13 Sep 1895.

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