DOT issues final ruling on Indiana time zones

Deborah Goldsmith goldsmit at apple.com
Thu Jan 19 22:04:45 UTC 2006


You're right, I had it backwards, but it's not quite the way you're  
putting it either. What I should have said is that in America/Indiana/ 
Knox, 1:59:59 EST is followed immediately by 2:00:00 CDT.

The rules I posted should be correct, though.

Deborah

On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Paul Schauble wrote:

> Probably I'm missing something, but why "2:00 AM CST to 1:00 AM  
> CDT". In the
> spring, 1:59:59 is followed 1 second later by 3:00:00 CDT. I don't
> understand why you have it  in the other direction.
>
>     ++PLS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tz-request at elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz- 
> request at elsie.nci.nih.gov] On
> Behalf Of Deborah Goldsmith
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:12 PM
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Re: DOT issues final ruling on Indiana time zones
>
> You're right, that should have been "fall back from 2:00 AM EST to  
> 1:00 AM
> CST, then again from 2:00 AM CST to 1:00 AM CDT". Sorry about that.
>
>  From the final DOT ruling (posted earlier) it appears as though  
> that is in
> fact the correct behavior, too, as odd as it is.
>
> Deborah
>
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Paul Schauble wrote:
>
>> Since this is in the spring, shouldn't that last change be from 2AM
>> CST to 3AM CDT?
>>
>>     ++PLS
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tz-request at elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz-
>> request at elsie.nci.nih.gov] On Behalf Of Deborah Goldsmith
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:38 PM
>> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
>> Subject: DOT issues final ruling on Indiana time zones
>>
>> <snip>
>> assuming I'm interpreting everything correctly. The DOT doesn't
>> specify whether Starke county switch to Central Time at the
>> appropriate time for its old or new time zone, but I'm assuming the
>> old here. That leads to it falling back from 2:00AM EST to 1:00AM  
>> CST,
>> and then again from 2:00AM CST to 1:00AM CST. If that makes people
>> nervous, then the transition would need to be at 3:00 AM.
>>
>> Deborah Goldsmith
>> Internationalization, Unicode liaison
>> Apple Computer, Inc.
>> goldsmit at apple.com
>>
>




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