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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>FYI: I sent the following message to my U.S. Senators and my U.S. Representative:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Whereas there exists a country which has been named Samoa since July 1997,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Whereas Samoa is entirely separate from the Territory of American Samoa,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Whereas Samoa and American Samoa have had standard times since 1911,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Whereas the standard time in Samoa has differed from the standard time in American Samoa since the 30th of December 2011 (in addition to the period from 1911 to 1950, when the time in Western Samoa was known as Samoa Time and the time in American Samoa was known as Nome Standard Time), and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Whereas the standard times in both locations continue to be known as Samoa Standard Time,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Despite the report in the Samoa Wikipedia article that American Samoans protested Samoa's name change and continue to call it Western Samoa, and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Despite the difference between the abbreviations of Samoa's Samoa Standard Time (WSST) and American Samoa's Samoa Standard Time (SST), which is due to the fact that the ISO-3166 international standard abbreviation of Samoa is still WS,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>In the interest of reducing international confusion, I recommend that the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, Subtitle A, Part 71, Section 71.13 and the United States Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX, Section 263 be amended to change the name of the standard time in American Samoa from Samoa standard time to American Samoa standard time.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Although I hope they make the change, I’m not holding my breath. I sent a similar message last year to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Executive Department in charge of U.S. time zones, but received no reply. Besides, if we were interested in reducing international confusion, we would have switched to the metric system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hank Wisniewski, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>