Sept. 2, 2013
9:01 a.m.
On Sep 1, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
It certainly doesn't seem that way to *me*. For the US, for example, 40 Stat. 450:
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usstat.html
and subsequent laws establishing standardized time in the US are pretty clear. That statute says, for example:
The standard time of the first zone shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich
and 75 degrees of longitude west of Greenwich, at 1 hour for every 15 degrees, is 75/15 = 5 hours.
That meridian, BTW, does *not* pass through New York City: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.983333,-75&q=loc:44.983333,-75&hl=en&t=m&... (New York *state*, yes, but not New York *City*).