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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 23:39:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 23:39:20 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.

Under the Uniform Time Act of 1967, all states were to observe DST starting
on the last Sunday in April  and ending on the last Sunday in October.
A state could exempt itself from DST. An ammendment in 1972 permits a state 
which was split by a time zone to exempt one or both zones.  Some
zone boundaries were changed by the Department of Transportation which
oversees the act.  A special law was passed which placed DST into effect
on Jan. 6, 1974, until October, 1974, to save energy.  Then again in
Feb., 1975, DST was restored until October, 1975.