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From: johnsson@decwrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: More DST tinkering
Message-ID: <8784@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 00:09:07 EST
Article-I.D.: decwrl.8784
Posted: Wed Mar 25 00:09:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 05:38:17 EST
Reply-To: johnsson@decwrl.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Lines: 22
Keywords: daylight time, elections
Summary: and we thought this year was a mess

I just heard on the news tonight about the latest proposal for uniform poll
closing time for presidential elections. Polls would close at

	9 pm Eastern Standard Time
	8 pm Central Standard Time
	7 pm Mountain Standard Time
	7 pm Pacific Daylight Time	*** Say What!?

That's right, in presidential election years, daylight time would be
extended by two weeks in the Pacific time zone only. (No word on what happens
in Hawaii.)

I have no idea what the status of this proposal is, but it did make the
national news on TV tonight.

Do any of the recent proposals for parameter driven time conversion deal
with this class of tinkering?
-- 
	Richard Johnsson, DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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