Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-28
TIME TO DO HAND
 Y SPRING SATURDAY NIGHT
Clock Hands to Be Pushed Ahead One
 ifeur.

Norwich is getting ready to make time do a handspring on Saturday night or rather at ? o'clock Sunday morning and the factories and shops are getting ready to make employees go to work an hour earlier according to the sun. but the same old time ac- cordjng. to the clock. At 2 o'clock sunday morning the hands of the clocks throughout the county will be pushed ahead one hour.
 7 Following is q copy of the act of congress. signed by the president on March 19, which will get the country out of bed nearer to the rising sun:
 Be 1t enacted by the senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed States of Amerf;a in congress as- semhled, That, for the purpose of es- tablshing the standard time of the
 United States, the territory of conti-
 mental 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 sew enty fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich; that of the second zone on the ninetieth degree; that of the third zone on the to5th degree; that the fourth zone on the 120th degree; and that of the figth zone which shall include only Alaska, OF the 150th degree. That the limits of each zone shall be defined by an order of the interstate commerce commission, having regard for the convenience of commerce and the existing junction points and divisions q commerce between the severa, 1 states and with foreign nations, and 1 such order may be modified iron time to time.
 Section 2. That within the Fespec- tive zones created under the author. ity hereof the, standard time of the ] all common carriers engaged in com meree between the several states ol l between a state and any of the terri. tories of the United States, or be. 1 tween state of the territory of Alas 1 ka and any of the insular possessj>ns of the United States or any foreigr 1 country. In all statutes, or orders rules and regulations relating to tht time of performance of any act by any officer or department of tht United States. whether in the legis l lative, executive, or judicial branehe: of the government. or relating to ths l time within which any rights sflal Isaccrue or determine or within whicl any act. shall or shall not be per I jurisdiction of the United States. i l shall be understood and intended tha the time shall be the United State
 standard time of the zone within which the act is to be performed
 1 Sec. 8. That at o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday il March of each year the standard
 time of each zone shall be advances 1 one hour, and at 0 o'clock ante l meridian of the last Sunday in Oc
 tober in each year the standard tim of each zone shall by the retardin
 Of one hour. be returned to the meal astronomical time of the degree o
 longitude governing said zone, S that between the last Sunday i
 Farch at ? o'clock antemeridian an
 the last Sunday in October at
 o'clock antemeridian in each year tn standard time in each zone shall b one hour in advance of the mean as i trononical time of the degree e
 longitude governing each zone, re spcetively. l Sec 4. That the standard time c .t the first zone shall be known an designated as United States Standar
 Eastern time; and that of the secon
 zone shall be known and designate as United States Standard Centrs
 time: that of the third zone shall b
 known and designated as Unite States Standard Mountain time; an
 that of the fifth zone shall be know and designated as United State Standard Alaska time.
 Sec. 5. / That all acts and parts C
 acts in conflict herewith are hereb i repealed.
 I Approved March fs, 1918.