<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 December 2014 at 07:56, Donald MacQueen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmacq@erols.com" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=dmacq@erols.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">dmacq@erols.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">At 1 am on August 17, 1948 in the America/New_York time zone, DST was in effect.</blockquote></div><br>It's not quite that simple. "From 1945 to 1966, there was no federal law regarding Daylight Saving Time, so states and localities were free to choose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time and could choose when it began and ended." (<a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html">http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html</a>)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If I recall correctly, it was larger cities such as New York City and Washington, DC which continued to observe DST fairly regularly during this period. So if the question boils down to whether a Marine Base near Washington, DC observed DST during the summer of 1948, I would be strongly inclined to guess "yes". This is purely speculative, though.<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div>
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