The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-03-29
new TINE SYSTEM GOES
into EFFECT At Z O'CLOCK
SUNDAY MORNING

iNSSi'Su oiuOlo W luH oil Trains VII
the new time system beginning on the
morning of Sunday, March 81, at 2
a. IN, at which time all watches are
to be set forward one hour. This is
in conformity to the governments
ruling that all watches throughout
the country are to be set up one hour
on that day in order to save daylight
and incidentally much coal which is
greatly needed.
The Directors of the Chamber Of
Commerce at recent meeting adopt
ed resolutions requesting all business
men of Lakeland to unite in conform
ing to the government ruling relative
to the daylight saving plan, and it
lis supposed that the church will
conduct their services on Sunday ac-
cording to the new time schedule, al
though this had not been definitely de-
cided upon up to this afternoon.
The official ruling relative to the
new time, as passed by Congress, fol-
lows:
An Act to Save Daylight and to Pro-
vide Standard Time for the United
States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That, for the purpose of es-
'tablishing the standard time of the
United States, the territory of con-
tinental United States shall be divided
Into five zones in the manner herein
after provided The standard time
of the first zone shall be based on the
mean astronomical time of the seven
ty-tifth degree of longitude west from
Greenwich; that of the second zone
on the ninetieth degree; that of the
third zone on the one hundred and
fifth degree; that of the fourth zone
on the one hundred and twentieth
degree; and that of the fifth zone,
(which shall include only Alaska, on
the one hundred and fiftieth degree.
That the limits of each zone shall be
DEFINED by an order of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, having re-
gard for the convenience of commerce
and the existing junction points AMI
division points of common carriers
engaged in commerce between the
several States and with foreign ma
tlons, and such order may be modified
from time to time.
sec. 2. That within the respective
zones created under the authority
hereof the standard time of the IONS
shall govern the movement OF all
common carriers engaged in COM
merce between the several States or
between a State and any of the Ter
ritories of the United States, or be-
tween a State or the Territory Of
Alaska or any OF the insular posses,
sions of the United States or any for
eigE country. In all statutes, orders,
rules, and regulations relating to the
time of performance of any act by
any officer or department of the Uni
ted States, whether in the legislative,
executive, or judicial branches of the
government, or relating to the time
within which any rights shall accrue
or determine, or within which any
act shall or shall not be performed
by any person subject to the jurisdic-
tlol of the United States, it shall be
understood and intended that the
time shall be the United States stand
, ara time of the zone within which
the act is to be performed.
Sec. 3. That at two o'clock ante-mer,
idian of the last Sunday in March of
each year the standard time of each
zcne shall be advanced one hour and
at two o'clock ante-meridian Of the
last Sunday in October in each year
} the standard time of each zone shalt,
b. the retarding of one hour, he re-
: turned to the mean astronomical
time Of the degree Of longitude gov
erning said zone, so that between the
last Sunday in March at two o'clock,
antemeridian and the last Sunday in
October at two o'clock antemeridian
in each year the standard time In
each zone shall be one hour in ad-
vance of the mean astronomical tim"
OF the degree of longitude governing
, each zone, respectively.
nov SCOUTS