A reminder: mail to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov is not working (temporarily, I hope). For now, send time-zone stuff to arthur_david_olson@nih.gov --ado -----Original Message----- From: John Hawkinson [mailto:jhawk@MIT.EDU] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:15 PM To: tz via ado Subject: Re: US DST changes? Today's WSJ, p. B4, unbylined, "New Daylight Plan is Cut by One Month." "Under pressure from some business interests, a conference committee working on a compromise energy bill has cut by half a proposed two-month extension of daylight savings time and put off the change until March 2007. "The new plan would advance daylight savings time from the first Sunday of April to the second Sunday in March and extend it an additional week, to the first Sunday in November. The compromise includes a proviso that if the Department of Energy finds serious problems with the measure, which is intended to save electricity use, Congress would have the option to revert back to the current period." ... --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson