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>Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998
>From: Johnnie D. Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Time zone at the South Pole
 
 
The newsletter ("New South Pole Times") of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station states that they are on "South Pole Standard Time".  This is New
Zealand time which is GMT +12.  The "New South Pole Times" is a web site and
has a nice animated map.  The South Pole Station is supported from the McMurdo
Station which is in the New Zealand time zone.
 
John Sutherland
Map Collection
University of Georgia
 
 
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>Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:24:51 -0800 (PST)
>From: Roger Wheate <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: time zones and the North Pole
 
 
According to my chief, Kevin Hall, an Antarctican researcher, they go by
'Zulu-time' which is a Brit term for Greenwich mean time.
He is also of British extraction, so it is possible this only applies to
UK workers, but this seems unlikely.
 
Of course if Captain Scott was on GMT, while Amundsen was on eastern
European time, maybe Scott got there first after all!!
 
I do not know if this also applies to the N. Pole as well, but presume
it does.
 
Roger Wheate
UNBC
 
 
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Rich Boardman wrote:
 
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Had an unusual question yesterday. The patron wanted to know the time
> zone designation for the South Pole and its relation (time-wise) to
> Washington, D.C.It seems to me that neither the north or south poles
> would be in any zone. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.
>
> Rich Boardman
> Map Collection
> Free LIbrary of Philadelphia
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>Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 19:53:45 -0500
>From: fred schaff <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: time zones and the North Pole (A)
 
 
        Almost all scientific expeditions into otherwise "timeless" areas use GMT.
I suspect that those at the North or South Pole use GMT or, perhaps, for
communications, use the local time zone of their home base. Obviously,
anyone standing on the pole iis in ALL time zones at once.
 
Fred Schaff, Spring Grove, PA, USA, <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
At 03:21 PM 3/2/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I would say the time-zone of the North- or South Pole is either
>night or day. Being further a theoretical point on a grid we can
>step beyond time-boundaries, that is when can make ourselves a
>virtual entity having neither substance.
>
>I get the feeling I'm answering a virtual question without any
>substance!
>When the Dutch Cartographic Society existed 25 years in 1983 its
>commemorative quarterly publication (Kartografisch Tijdschrift)
>was issued with mostly fiction stories concerning cartography.
>One of them was by Harry Mulisch (at the moment the best known
>Dutch writer) called 'The boundary' in which a someone has a
>car-accident on the boundary between two municipalities. Because
>medical assistance personell is using a map to define their
>jurisdiction the victim is left to itself to her own detriment!
>For those interested. It contained, among others, also a story by
>J.M.A. Biesheuvel concerning two Norwegian cartographers who
>created a miniature replica of the globe wherein everything is
>reproduced, including humans. Also a story concerning Piri Reis
>by Hubert Lampo.
>And last, but not least, see my earlier e-mail on Umberto Eco's
>'The Island of the day before'.
>
>The danger for the uninformed of course is where does fiction
>cross the border into non-fiction or where is the boundary
>between virtuality and reality. Some people would classify plans
>which are not realized under imaginairy maps instead of the real
>area and embellished unknown areas under real headings instead of
>under imaginairy areas.
>
>Jan Smits
>Map Curator Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The
>Netherlands
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Fred Schaff, Spring Grove, PA, USA,  <[log in to unmask]
 
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