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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Whitman news since 1896

Whitman Wire

Doomsday or Doomsminute? The Consequences of Olin Standard Time

Doomsday or Doomsminute? The Consequences of Olin Standard Time

Tristan Gavin October 31, 2012
Rather than allowing our clocks to “fall back” because of daylight savings time, Walla Walla’s totalitarian mayor has decreed that all clocks be adjusted to Olin Standard Time. Olin Standard Time, or OST, is a measurement of time developed in Olin Hall that does not adhere to the laws of any regional time zones. Sometimes it jumps forward an hour, sometimes it falls back three and sometimes it doesn’t change at all. Instances of clocks on Olin Standard Time displaying different times in locations just 20 meters apart is not entirely unprecedented.
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