June 3, 2019
9:59 p.m.
On 2019-06-03, at 15:53:44, Steve Allen wrote:
On Mon 2019-06-03T11:55:33+0200 Mark Davis ☕️ hath writ:
I agree. And note that in many languages, two offsets are not "standard" and "whatever", they are is "summer" and "winter".
("Standard" is a misnomer anyway, when more than half the time it isn't that offset.)
United States law says that both winter and summer are designated as "standard time". The law does not have such a thing as daylight time. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/260a
That circumvented the need to update probably hundreds of references in the U.S. Code. It never became idiomatic usage. -- gil