Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-03-30
DAYLIGHT SAVING Law WILL
TAKE Effect EASTER SUNDAY
Push Clocks Forward One Hour Last
Sunday in March and Set Back
Last Sunday in October.

| Washington.-The daylight saving
bill was signed Tuesday by President
| Wilson. 1t puts all clocks forward an
hour on the last Sunday in March and
turns them back again the last Sun
day in October.
The new daylight saving system
will work out in practice as follows:
| The man who leaves his home at
o'clock in the morning will leave at
8 o'clock by the clock, but at by sun
time, but when the man goes home at
5 o'clock in the afternoon by the clock
he will be going home at 4 o'clock
sun time. and these people who work
until 6 o'clock throughout the coun-
try will be going home at o'clock sun
time, but it will still be 6 o'clock by
the clock.
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 United
States of America in congress assem-
bIed that, for the purpose of estab-
| fishing the standard time of the Unit
ed States, the territory of Continental
United States shall be divided into
five zones in the manner hereinafter
provided. The standard time of the
first zone shall be based on the mean
astronomical time of the seventy-fifth
| degree of longitude west from Green
Wich; that of the second zone on the
ninetieth degree; that of the third
zone on the one hundred and fifth de-
| gree; 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 hun
dred and fiftteth degree. That the
| limits of each zone shall be defined
| by an order of the interstate COM
merce commission, having regard for
the convenience of commerce and the
existing junction points and division
points of common carriers engaged in
commerce between the several states
and with foreign nations, and such or
der may be modified from time to
time.
Sec. 2. That within the respective
zones created under the authority
hereof the standard time OF the zone
shall govern the movement of all COM
mon carriers engaged in commerce be-
tween the several states or between
state and any OF the territories of
the United States or between state
or the territory of Alaska and any of
the insular possessions of the United
States or any foreign country. In all
statutes, orders, rules, and regulations
relating to the time of performance of
any act by any officer or department
of the United States, whether in the
legislative, executive, or judicial
branches of the government, or relat-
ing 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 sub
ject to the Jurisdiction of the United
States. it shall be understood and in
tended that the time shall be the Unit
ed States standard time of the zone
within which the act is to be perform
ed.
Sec. 3. That at 2 o'clock anteme-
ridian of the last Sunday in March of
each year the standard time of each
zone shall be advanced one hour, and
at o'clock antemeridian Of the last
Sunday in October in each year the
standard time of each zone shall, by
the retarding of one hour, be returned
to the mean astronomical time of the
degree of longitude governing said
zone. so that between the last Sun
day in March at o'clock antemerid-
ian and the last Sunday in October at
2 o'clock antemeridian in each year
the standard time in each zone shall
be one hour in advance of the mean
astronomical time of the degree of
longitude governing each zone, respec-
lively.
Sec. 4. That the standard time of
the first zone shall be known and des-
ignated as United States standard
eastern time; that of the second zone
shall be known and designated as
United States standard central time;
that of the third zone shall be known
and designated as United States stand
ard mountain time; that of the fourth
zone shall be known and designated as
United States standard Pacific time.
and that of the fifth zone shall be
known and designated as United
States standard Alaska time.
Sec. 5. That all acts and parts of
acts in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.