I have a question for any of you "retro" schedule posters who might have schedules from New England (specifically WCAX-3) from prior to the 70's. Was there ever a time period when Vermont remained on EST while New York was on EDT?
The reason I ask: my family used to have a summer home in Vermont and many years ago, after we had sold the place and ceased our annual trips there, I once overheard my grandmother telling someone that we used to get network shows "one hour earlier" when in Vermont.
At the time, I insisted to her that it could not have been the case, though she vehemently insisted it was true. (And was very upset that I dared to dispute her memories...) I certainly don't remember such a time differential, but my conscious memories of TV watching there probably only go back to the mid-60's, and she had been going there since at least the early 50's or even the late 40's. From what I know now about the patchwork of Daylight/Standard Time observance back then, I suppose it is possible that there were at least SOME summers (or portions thereof) when WCAX-3 MIGHT have aired network shows one clock hour behind New York. Though, since the only other station we could reliably receive was WPTZ-5 -- from New York, not Vermont -- it is also possible that one may have been on EDT and the other on EST at the same time.
I'm thinking there may be at least a partial element of truth to her assertion, and though she is long gone, I'd be interested to see if she could be posthumously vindicated. (If so, I can see my having to humbly apologize to her someday in the afterlife...)
This could probably also be answered definitively by anyone who has a copy of one of those astrology-published reference works (such as "Time Changes in the U.S.A." by Doris Chase Doane -- a book I once saw in a thrift store, but failed to purchase).
The reason I ask: my family used to have a summer home in Vermont and many years ago, after we had sold the place and ceased our annual trips there, I once overheard my grandmother telling someone that we used to get network shows "one hour earlier" when in Vermont.
At the time, I insisted to her that it could not have been the case, though she vehemently insisted it was true. (And was very upset that I dared to dispute her memories...) I certainly don't remember such a time differential, but my conscious memories of TV watching there probably only go back to the mid-60's, and she had been going there since at least the early 50's or even the late 40's. From what I know now about the patchwork of Daylight/Standard Time observance back then, I suppose it is possible that there were at least SOME summers (or portions thereof) when WCAX-3 MIGHT have aired network shows one clock hour behind New York. Though, since the only other station we could reliably receive was WPTZ-5 -- from New York, not Vermont -- it is also possible that one may have been on EDT and the other on EST at the same time.
I'm thinking there may be at least a partial element of truth to her assertion, and though she is long gone, I'd be interested to see if she could be posthumously vindicated. (If so, I can see my having to humbly apologize to her someday in the afterlife...)
This could probably also be answered definitively by anyone who has a copy of one of those astrology-published reference works (such as "Time Changes in the U.S.A." by Doris Chase Doane -- a book I once saw in a thrift store, but failed to purchase).
