On 2022-11-07 2:29 PM, Doug Ewell via tz wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
... and neither group is old enough to remember the last time we abolished DST. I'm definitely not old enough to remember the last time the US abolished nationwide DST, which I guess would have been right after World War II.
OTOH, I do remember the mid-'70s experimentation with making DST permanent. That was not pretty.
PUBLIC LAW 93-182-DEC. 15, 1973 To provide for daylight saving time on a year-round basis for a two-year trial period, and to require the Federal Communications Commission to permit certain daytime broadcast stations to operate before local sunrise https://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/93/182.pdf PUBLIC LAW 93-434-OCT. 5, 1974 To amend the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of [H. R. 16102] 1973 to exempt from its provisions the period from the last Sunday in October, 1974, through the last Sunday in February, 1975. https://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/93/434.pdf The cautionary tale about "permanent DST". How would the TZDB rule sets best handle this if the Sunshine Protection Act passed as currently written? -Brooks
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