The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-02
DAYLIGHT BILL SETS NEW TIME FOR AMERICANS

1 An act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States.
 Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in con- gress assembled. That, for the pur- pose of establishing the standard time of the United States. the terri tory of continental United States shall be divided into five zones in the manner hereinafter provided. The standard time for the first zone shal be based on the mean astrono- mical time of the seventy-fifth de- gree 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 degree; that of the four 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 Inter state Commerce commission, having regard for the convenience of com merce and the existing junction points and division points of com mon carriers engaged in commerce between the several states and with foreign nations, and such order may be modified from time to time. Sec. ? That within the respective zones created under the authority hereof the standard time of the zone 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 and any of the insular pos sessions of the United States or any foreign country. In all statutes. rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the United States, whether in the legis- lative. 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 jurisdiction of the United States, 1 1t shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the United States standard time of the zone within which the act is to be per formed.
 Sec. 5. That at } o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in March of each year the standard time cf
 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 as
 tronomical time of the degree of
 longitude governing said zone, so
 that between the last Sunday in March at o'clock antemeridian and
 the last Sunday in October at o'clock antemeridian in each year l 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, re-
 spectively.
 Sec. i. That the standard time of
 the first zone shall be known and
 designated as United States stand ard 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 l iStates standard 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.
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