Re: Daylight Savings time starts?

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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 17:53

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marv@netcom.com (Marvin Raab) writes:

>  Good point...i think you're right...it's the 4th Sunday of Oct.

No -- the switchover is the *last* Sunday of October, and it's been
that way ever since 1967.  Even the time zone follies of the early
1970s never messed with this rule.  If you have a modern Unix machine,
see the file "/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/northamerica".

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