[tz] Java & Rearguard

[Steve Allen]

On Mon 2019-06-03T11:55:33+0200 Mark Davis ☕️ hath writ:
> I agree. And note that in many languages, two offsets are not "standard"
> and "whatever", they are is "summer" and "winter".
>
> ("Standard" is a misnomer anyway, when more than half the time it isn't
> that offset.)

United States law says that both winter and summer are designated as
"standard time".  The law does not have such a thing as daylight time.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/260a

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