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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 23:19:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 23:19:02 1985
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh

> It was recently inferred that the Federal Government has something to do
> with Daylight Savings Time.  I see no involvement by the Federal Government.

By 1974, President Nixon got legislation passed standardizing DST
in those states which adopted DST.  It was an attempt to help the
energy situation at that time.  I imagine that the only teeth that
the law had was in regard to interstate transportation and federal
offices.