This should provide some more grist for understanding the reality of civil time. This happens pretty often somewhere in the world.
A DOT final ruling on Indiana came out today, affecting time zones starting April 2, 2006: http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm > Under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, the Secretary of Transportation > has the authority to set time-zone boundaries and must base > decisions on the "convenience of commerce." > ... > After five months, 22 hours of public hearing testimony and more > than 6,000 public comments, the U.S. Department of Transportation > today announced a final rule that will change the clock for eight of > 17 Indiana counties seeking to move to the Central time zone. > ... > Seventeen Indiana counties asked the Department last September to > change from Eastern to Central time. On Oct. 25, the Department > issued a notice proposing Knox, Perry, Pike, St. Joseph and Starke > counties move from Eastern to Central time, and made no change to > time zones in the remaining 12 counties. ... I heard about this from the time zone mailing list. See e.g. http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm Deborah Goldsmith writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it: > Based on my reading of this document, only one zone in tzdata is > affected, America/Indiana/Knox. That zone will start observing US > Central Time starting April 2, 2006, at the time of the switchover > to Daylight Savings Time. Probably the easiest thing to do is to > change the last two lines as follows: > From: > -5:00 - EST 2006 > -5:00 US E%sT > to: > -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 > -5:00 US C%sT Will your computer's time zone databases be up-to-date then? Cheers, Neal McBurnett http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ Signed and/or sealed mail encouraged. GPG/PGP Keyid: 2C9EBA60
