On 8 Sep 2018, at 17:55, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Phake Nick wrote:
Not really. It would mean the Sunday's clock go to 24:59 before jumping to 00:00 on Sunday. The official time the DST end is "00:00am on the next day after the second Saturday of September". So it isn't ending before the day change.
Sorry, but that reading doesn't sound plausible to me. I can't imagine a law intending to refer to 24:59.9999... on Sunday (i.e., 00:59.9999.... on Monday) talking about the transition occurring the day after Saturday. But perhaps someone can dig up a newspaper in the affected area that explains things clearly to the general populace.
The question is whether the change is from 00:00 Sunday (IE 24:00 Saturday) to 23:00 Saturday or from 01:00 Sunday to 00:00 Sunday (IE 24:00 Saturday), isn't it? Or are 24 hours after these two cases—with "Saturday" replaced by "Sunday" and "Sunday" replaced by "Monday"—also possibilities? Which Sunday it is is not in dispute, is it?