From olsona@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Tue Aug 9 09:32:22 2005 From: Arthur David Olson To: tz@iana.org Subject: Proposed change for new U. S. law Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:32:21 -0400 Message-ID: <200508091332.j79DWLBH001619@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7034225884965744414==" --===============7034225884965744414== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Below find my proposed change to the "northamerica" file to reflect new U. S. law. --ado ------- northamerica ------- *** /tmp/geta1562 Tue Aug 9 09:29:26 2005 --- /tmp/getb1562 Tue Aug 9 09:29:26 2005 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)northamerica 7.75 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean =20 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)northamerica 7.76 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean =20 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 116,130 **** Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S ! Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=3D1 2:00 1:00 D ! # ! # H.R.177 ! # (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rul= e. =20 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. --- 116,129 ---- Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S ! Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=3D1 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=3D8 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=3D1 2:00 0 S =20 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. *************** *** 202,209 **** # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". =20 -=20 # US eastern time, represented by New York =20 # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, --- 201,227 ---- # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". + =20 + # From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 + # The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. + # + # H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. + # (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 + # U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- + # (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second + # Sunday of March'; and + # (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first + # Sunday of November'. + # (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the + # date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. + # (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective + # date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress + # on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United + # States. + # (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the + # Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the + # Department study is complete. =20 # US eastern time, represented by New York =20 # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, --===============7034225884965744414==-- From jhawk@mit.edu Fri Aug 12 22:25:51 2005 From: John Hawkinson To: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: Proposed change for new U. S. law Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:25:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20050813022541.GA15243@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200508091332.j79DWLBH001619@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2359881316840361935==" --===============2359881316840361935== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [ I had originally sent a version of this on Tuesday morning, but it failed to go through because apparently lecserver.nci.nih.gov is still firewalled, and elsie works only because of an MX record. ] Arthur David Olson wrote on Tue, 9 Aug 2005 at 09:32:21 -0400 in <200508091332.j79DWLBH001619@lecserver.nci.nih.gov>: > Below find my proposed change to the "northamerica" file to reflect new U. = S. > law. Thanks. > --ado > --- 201,227 ---- > # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation > # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. > # See the file "australasia". > + =20 > + # From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 > + # The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. > + # > + # H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. HR numbers are per-year (e.g. HR.6 of the 109th Congress), and are really only useful before bills become laws. I expect it will be assigned a Public Law number sometime this coming week, and that will appear at "http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00006:@@@S". Can we wait until then and include that number? --jhawk p.s.: I keep wondering if its a good time to propose changing the default name of US timezones to US/Eastern -style rather than America/New_York, because our timezones are set based on national policy, and are referred to almost ubiquitously by their regional-based names rather than their city names (except when abbreviations are used...) [of course, this is a problem if the last word of canonical names must be unique, as US/Eastern and Canada/Eastern, f'rinstance, would not be.] --===============2359881316840361935==--