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In 2019, the Washington State Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1196, [59] which would establish year-round observation of daylight saving time contingent on the United States Congress amending federal law to authorize states to observe daylight saving time year-round. [60] Tennessee and Oregon also passed bills in 2019 for year-round ...
Congress would need to amend the existing 1966 federal law to allow the change. [26] [34] In November 2018, voters in California ratified a legislative plan which would allow for year-round daylight saving time to be enacted. [35] However, it still requires the vote of two-thirds of the state's legislature and the approval of Congress. [36]
The evolution of United States standard time zone boundaries from 1919 to 2024 in five-year increments. Plaque in Chicago marking the creation of the four time zones of the continental US in 1883 Colorized 1913 time zone map of the United States, showing boundaries very different from today Map of U.S. time zones during between April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007.
The corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar is 9 February 1649, the date by which his contemporaries in some parts of continental Europe would have recorded his execution. The O.S./N.S. designation is particularly relevant for dates which fall between the start of the "historical year" (1 January) and the legal start date, where different.
Morocco, including the portion of Western Sahara that it administers, also observes an annual time change but not related to seasonal daylight. The local time is decreased by one hour on the Sunday before Ramadan at 03:00, and increased by one hour on the Sunday after Ramadan at 02:00 (in 2024, the dates are 10 March and 14 April).
Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes.
It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published, thus avoiding any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year. January 0 also occurs in the epoch for the ephemeris second, "1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time".
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg became the youngest person ever, at the age of 16, to be named Time’s Person of the Year in 2019. Thunberg, now in her 20s, galvanized young people around ...