Case 08 of 26

Historical time zones

Chicago 1990: western longitude plus DST

A North American historical record exercises a negative UTC offset and summer time.

Boundary question

Can the same wall-clock noon be normalized with America/Chicago history?

Yes. The record uses UTC−05:00 with a 60-minute DST component and corrects to 11:09 true solar time.

Synthetic input

Recorded facts

Date
1990-06-15
Recorded time
12:00
Location
Chicago, United States
Time zone
America/Chicago
Longitude
-87.6298°
Gender input
Female

Pinned expected facts

Verified output

build verified

Year

庚午

Month

壬午

Day

辛亥

Hour

甲午

Day Master
True solar time
1990-06-15 11:09
Total correction
-50.55 minutes
Historical offset
UTC−05:00 · DST 60 min
Luck direction
逆排
Reference Jie
芒种 · 1990-06-06 06:46:18
Luck start
1993-07-07 09:27:27

Conventions and limits

What this case does — and does not — prove

It verifies

Deterministic reproduction of this input under the named engine version and conventions. A pinned-field mismatch stops the production build.

It does not claim

Universal agreement across Bazi schools, interpretation of a real person, or certainty where the historical record is incomplete.

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