[jodacola]

Enjoyed this article, but was immediately distracted into another rabbit hole from the editor's note on the time zone, which I hadn't heard before:

> If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945

So, I went digging because time zones have been a weird fascination for me due to dealing with all their annoyances as an engineer, and found this article from 2019 [0]!

From the article:

> In February 1942, Congress implemented a law instating a national daylight saving time to help conserve fuel and "promote national security and defense," which is why it was nicknamed "war time." The time zones were even known as that: Eastern War Time, Pacific War Time, etc.

[0] https://www.war.gov/News/Feature-Stories/story/Article/17791...

edit: grammar

[escapecharacter]

Of course later they renamed it to Eastern Defense Time, Pacific Defense Time, etc. so we have EDT, PDT today.

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That is so cool! Thanks for picking up on this and following through.