2 messages.-----Johnnie -------------------------------------------------------------- >From: William Penberthy <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: Time Zones and the North Pole >Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:15:10 -0700 Is this the magnetic pole, or the "true" North Pole? I reviewed the ultimate sources for life on the North Pole, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". (There was a lot of familial debate about whether "The Year Without a Santa Claus" qualified... We decided it was a horror story up there with Halloween and thus was fiction) In "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Sombertown, a seemingly English town (design and accent) was in the same time zone as the North Pole. GMT sounds like a good hypothesis here. However, in Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, the delay is starting (the blizzard, you know) and the route taken gives the impression that the North Pole is in the same time period as NYC, (Eastern US) or perhaps Central US. They didn't always show a tower with a clock on it. Thank you for the opportunity to do this research. However, if my four year-old asks me "Is it Christmas yet?" one more time, I'm going to scream! Bill Bill Penberthy.......................Educational Research and Design Geoinfosys...........................Market Research and Demographics 1587 Locust Street................Custom Cartography Denver, Colorado 80220.........GIS Consulting (303) 399-8517......................Digital Mapping Data [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------- >From: [log in to unmask] >Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 17:27:26 EST >Subject: RE: time zones and the North Pole Dear Rich, The Pole itself is a point and nut in any time zone, but a quick two minute stroll around the pole would take you through most of the world's time zones and across the International Date Line! regards Tim Rideout Bartholomew Mapping Services