CP Time

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

add 'Mormon Standard Time'
Fritz

>>> jester at PANIX.COM 11/04/04 01:59PM >>>
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:50:32PM -0500, Alice Faber wrote:
>
> At one point in my life, friends of mine referred to this as "Jewish time".

DARE has "Jewish time" from 1952. And HDAS has "C.P.T." from
Carl van Vechten's _Nigger Heaven_ from 1926.

I hear new variants of this constantly--"[some ethnic, racial,
religious etc. group] time" = 'late'.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED