Re: Testing for daylight savings on a GMT server

From: Robert Bonomi (bonomi_at_host122.r-bonomi.com)
Date: 11/06/05


Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:03:35 -0000

In article <m3pspkxt94.fsf@invalid.address>, <joe@invalid.address> wrote:
>Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
>
>> > Jim Gibson <jgibson@mail.arc.nasa.gov> writes:
>> >
>> >> And for those who do not follow American politics, the rules in
>> >> the U.S. may be changing once again in 2007:
>> >>
>> >> <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html>
>> >
>> > FWIW, the provinces in Canada will probably change their rules to
>> > match the US because of how much the two countries are linked
>> > economically.
>>
>> Except for Saskatchewan, which doesn't do "Daylight Saving Time."
>
>Someone's always got to be different. Like in the U.S. state of
>Arizona, where the state as a whole doesn't do DST, but the Navajo
>reservation does.

It's even *messier* than that --
    the State of Arizona doesn't do DST.
    The Navajo Nation, part of which lies within Arizona _does_ do DST.
    The Hopi Indian Reservation, which lies entirely within the Navajo Nation
       doesn't do DST.

Travelling on a _North/South_ line through AZ, you can encounter FIVE areas
where the time is different from surrounding territory.



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