Tennessee time (was Web sites using recent versions of the tz database)
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Zoidsoft <zoidsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
Tennessee has proposed permanent daylight time:
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2014/2/18/269932/Legislation-Making-Daylight-Sav...
If this moves forward at the state level, things could get interesting. The US Uniform Time Act lets states choose whether or not to make the DST switch, but may not allow for permanent DST (which would, in effect, be a time zone switch). "Full text - Daylight Saving Time - United States Law - 15 USC 6(IX)(260-7)" http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usc.html A reminder: I am not a lawyer. @dashdashado
On Wednesday, February 19 2014, "Arthur David Olson" wrote to "tz@iana.org" saying:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Zoidsoft <zoidsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
Tennessee has proposed permanent daylight time: http://www.chattanoogan.com/2014/2/18/269932/ Legislation-Making-Daylight-Savings.aspx
If this moves forward at the state level, things could get interesting. The US Uniform Time Act lets states choose whether or not to make the DST switch, but may not allow for permanent DST (which would, in effect, be a time zone switch).
"Full text - Daylight Saving Time - United States Law - 15 USC 6(IX) (260-7)" http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usc.html
A reminder: I am not a lawyer.
@dashdashado
In principle, Tennessee could simultaneously move to Atlantic time, and stop using Daylight Savings Time. I think the fact that they could choose to call their resulting UTC-4 time zone "EDT" rather than "AST" probably wouldn't be in violation of the Uniform Time Act (but I'm not a lawyer either). That said, the federal Department of Transportation (which apparently has jurisdiction over such things) hasn't allowed Maine to move to Atlantic Time, so the odds that they'd allow Tennessee to do so seem rather low. (If Maine does ever manage to move its time zone, naming its zone identifier is going to be an interesting challenge for the TZDB -- since "America/Portland" is rather unfortunately ambiguous...) -- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu
(If Maine does ever manage to move its time zone, naming its zone identifier is going to be an interesting challenge for the TZDB -- since "America/Portland" is rather unfortunately ambiguous...)
Ditto for America/Augusta (Georgia). Perhaps one might use America/Bangor or America/Kittery ? :)
"Arthur" == Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> writes:
Tennessee has proposed permanent daylight time:
I just don't get this. Do these people then realize that solar noon will never be close to actual noon? The timezone is arbitrary... might as well make it meaningful. If you want people to get more evening hours after work, LEAVE WORK EARLIER. Has anyone put forth a *sane* reason to move to a solar noon that doesn't correspond roughly with wall-clock noon? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig
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