mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina) (12/23/85)
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It was recently inferred that the Federal Government has something
to do with Daylight Savings Time. Other than Benjamin Franklin making
the first joke about DST, and the coincidental facts that he later worked
for the Federal Govenrment and that DST was finally used, I see no
involvement by the Federal Government. Is there a USCA citation that
somebody can point to make the Federal connection?
Mark Reinasmh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) (12/24/85)
**** **** 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.
smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) (12/25/85)
**** **** 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.
yuhan@sunybcs.UUCP (Hanyong Yuhan) (12/28/85)
I strongly believe that Daylight Savings Time system should be
abolished in these days of modern technology. I suspect that shifting
around the time axis itself must be causing too many problems. Our
fundamental notion of time continuity is also hurt by this crude system
which might have been all right in the old Columbian days. In fact,
no time system can save the actual time: one day is 24 hours, no matter
what, excepts the two days a year -- one when DST starts, and the other
when it ends under this ridiculous system.
All we may need is merely having the besiness hours for certain
businesses set up flexibly depending on the length of daylight (or any
other relevant factors). However, it would be very much desired that
the goverment takes the minimum role of announcing recommended dates for
such shiftings of business hours for the sake of social efficiency.