From edde76c952211466e0c6351de9a2182917028cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:31:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * australasia, NEWS: Comment re Johnston Island time in the 1960s. (Thanks to Lyle McElhaney.) --- NEWS | 2 ++ australasia | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cefa3b3..f75989c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes to Donald MacQueen.) Instead, the Microsoft Windows Store app library supports them. + Add comments about Johnston Island time in the 1960s. + (Thanks to Lyle McElhaney.) Release 2014a - 2014-03-07 23:30:29 -0800 diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index f7fa628..7da856d 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -763,14 +763,29 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # Johnston # -# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-03): +# From Paul Eggert (2013-03-11): +# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind. +# Details are uncertain. We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so +# treat it like Hawaii for now. +# # In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 # (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, # "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM # Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and # confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. -# We have no better information, so for now, assume this has been true -# indefinitely into the past. +# +# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11): +# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used +# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships, +# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the +# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last +# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, +# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the +# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976 +# . +# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a +# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time +# Minus One Hour". # # See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston.