Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:48:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote:
> > >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been
> > >> updated already for next years extension of daylight savings
> > >> time in the United States.
> > >
> > > Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but
> > > the US extended a bad policy without informing the public when it
> > > happened? WTF? Should be getting rid of DST, not extending it...
> > > the half the justification for DST shot himself in the head
> > > somewhere in Europe in 1945, and we nuked the other half...so why
> > > do we still have our clocks fighting World War II?
> >
> > I've heard people blame Bush for a lot, but unilaterally changing
> > DST? Get a grip, and do some Googling.
> >
> > http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
>
> On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of
> 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the
> U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end
> the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact
> of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight
> Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy
> study is complete.
>
> Sounds unilateral to me.
It was only unilateral by default: He apparently *failed* to issue a signing
statement in which he could have *clarified* his understanding of the
intent of Congress ;-)
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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