Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-02
CHANGE OF TIME
 ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Something Win Happen to Watch and Clocks on
 December ,

At II sNb t flo'A tu Aii'' hi-iAA 'ft December it will be i've minutes past midnight of the next morning, Tuesday. December $, 1I.05 ?. n. win be Wednesday morning, December C, IZ:G5 a. ln. There will be g. seismo- graphic disturbance in ihe works of all watches in use along the south en Pacific railroad in Arizona and there win be sand-slide in the honr glass.
 This Nill result when southern Arizona towns will abolish western or Pacific time and adopt mountain time. Even Yuna will wake up and sets ffs town clock an hour ahead. Time. which has been said 10 tiy, will take a leap.
 With the change on the s. P these towns will adopt mountain time and 't will hereafter be the same time in Tucson that it is in Fl Paso. Phoo- nix. BisEee and Flagstan. phoeuiX. Nai~e the Southern Pacific terminus of the s. P. lines, in Arizona, for 9 time adopted a compromise and had it's "city time" between thc two, halt an hour faster than Sahia Fe time and half an hour slower than s. r. time. but recently Phoenix has ae- ocpted Santa Fe or mountain time as thte official time Now that the $ P is to accept it. all Arizona will have but one time--the same as Fl Paso's.
 Southern Arizona people are goin,; 10 lose an hour when the changc comes. At 1l:O5 Pacific time. Decem her j, they will sci their clocks up to l205. and accept the mountain time Just an hour will be stolen out of their lives and thev are wondering what they are eoiuC to do about it.
 The change in time has resulted ir some disCrsSion as to what is actual 'v nccornrliS}ad hv eo doing. and what some Of the incidental resur ~iu be
 First. what is standard time2 The suns arDarcrt motion IS wcstward oach day. Y passes over New York 'ater over St Louis and later st'H over Fl Paso and Tucsfu lf earh oirv should set its clocks 10 register noon at exactly p'idd7v th9t is, when the sun is overhead then DO two cities would have the same time and nuch copfusiou uould ersua. Each "itv would then have local time.
 In order to svstamatizp the time rarticularlv of trapsnortation comnau- ies. the circum'erepce or the earth 's divided into 24 equal suaces. each being l5 deerees wide in lon"iiuda Ptqrtine at Greenwich Fnoland. heIt l. degrees wide. wf'h 2 north "rd south line thr0Heha Greenwich as the center IS hrst laid on. Ail nnipts ia that belt keep Greenvich time: that is, all clocks register 12 o'clock hg flo 'hc meridian of Greenwich.
 Next. a north and south line at F. degrees west longitGde is skeu Js the center Of a belt and all points iu this teit keen fifteenth meridian time. which is one hour ehind Green vich time. Similarly 75th meridian time is five hours behind Greenwich time and 15Jth meridian time. or mountain time. is seven b0rrs behn" Greenwich time. The l05th meridian nassed through Denver and through he east mart Ot Fl PasO county. Tex. ss. and ali clocks in this belt which keep mountain time register noon when the sun is directly over Den yer
 One hundred and fifth meridiar time. or mountain time should bn used rom Iougijude S7 deerces 20 minutes to longitude I1z degrees g. minutes.
 Pacific time, which is now in usa west of here. is 3G minutes behind local or sun time Mountain time which is proposed for use will be 24 minutes ahead oT local tine Ate the change is made the Arizona towne will be 12 minutes closer to agree ' ment with the sun. and surely 1t is better to be ahead of time than to be behind. The dividing line lies ! east Of Giia Bend. and the change to Pacific time on the Southern Pacific system will be made at Yuma.
 After December 6. Arizona fore nnons will seem to be shorter and the afternoons longer. Since evening en- tertainmcnts begin at a conyortioua' hour, they actually will be shifted -n rre earlier part or the evening. Likewise the Sunday church services u-ill TerWiuate just at the tir tbey now begin. School children win be obliged to hustle in the morning ;r avoid tardincss. Thus, by a simple resolution of the Southern Pacific company Ar!zouaus are made to rise earlier, to lunch earlier and to nave | m earlier evening