--- northamerica | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index fb0103f..9d5bad2 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -439,6 +439,19 @@ Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 # western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, # and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming # +# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-25): +# On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone. +# However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe +# mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done +# and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do. +# Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on +# 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing. Although +# that's slightly after our 1970 cutoff, there is no need to create a +# separate zone for El Paso since they were ignoring the law anyway. See: +# Long T. El Pasoans were time rebels, fought to stay in Mountain zone. +# El Paso Times. 2018-10-24 06:40 -06. +# https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/10/24/el-pasoans-w... +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S -- 2.17.1