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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney_hunting_accident
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Claim
1:48 p.m. (07:48)
Correction
The parenthetical time conversion is wrong. The story was posted at 1:48 p.m. in Texas, and on February 12, 2006 Texas was still on Central Standard Time, so that corresponds to 19:48 UTC, not 07:48.
Full reasoning
The time in parentheses is incorrect.
- A contemporaneous Caller-Times account says the story was posted at 1:48 p.m. Sunday.
- Texas did not begin daylight saving time in 2006 until April 2, so on February 12, 2006 Corpus Christi and the rest of most of Texas were on Central Standard Time (UTC−6).
- Therefore, 1:48 p.m. CST = 19:48 UTC, not 07:48. Even as a 24-hour conversion of local time, 1:48 p.m. would be 13:48, so the article's parenthetical is erroneous either way.
2 sources
- Cheney story proves newspapers' mettle - Deseret News
We broke the national story at 1:48 p.m. Sunday with an e-mail alert and a story on our Web site Caller.com
- Daylight Saving Time 2006 in Texas, United States
Apr 2, 2006 - Daylight Saving Time Started ... When local standard time was about to reach Sunday, April 2, 2006, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour