[ 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 <olsona@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> 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". + + # 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.]