US daylight savings for 2007

US daylight savings for 2007

[Kevin Ryde]

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I noticed a couple of spots in the code and manual with US daylight
savings rule as first sunday in April, which I believe is changing for
2007.

2006-12-20  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

	* calendar/cal-dst.el (calendar-dst-starts): Default to second Sunday
	in March.
	(calendar-dst-ends): Default to first Sunday in November.
	These are new US rules commencing 2007, per tzdata
	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.

and in the manual:

	* calendar.texi (Holidays): US daylight savings begins second Sunday
	in March for 2007 onwards.
	(Daylight Savings): Show new US default daylight savings rules, 2nd
	Sun in Mar to 1st Sun in Nov, now in cal-dst.el.

I'm not sure why daylight savings is mentioned in the "Holidays" node.
What it says about always using only the present definition isn't true
any more is it?  I'd be tempted to reduce the last paragraph to just
its first sentence.

	The dates used by Emacs for holidays are based on _current
	practice_, not historical fact.

Unless someone can think of a holiday where the rule has varied
historically.


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*** cal-dst.el.~1.26.~	2006-12-15 07:15:51.000000000 +1100
--- cal-dst.el	2006-12-20 15:55:22.000000000 +1100
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                      (nth 4 calendar-current-time-zone-cache))))
          (if expr (eval expr)))
        (and (not (zerop calendar-daylight-time-offset))
!            (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 4 year))))
  
  (defun calendar-dst-ends (year)
    "Return the date of YEAR on which Daylight Saving Time ends.
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                      (nth 4 calendar-current-time-zone-cache))))
          (if expr (eval expr)))
        (and (not (zerop calendar-daylight-time-offset))
!            (calendar-nth-named-day 2 0 3 year))))
  
  (defun calendar-dst-ends (year)
    "Return the date of YEAR on which Daylight Saving Time ends.
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                      (nth 5 calendar-current-time-zone-cache))))
          (if expr (eval expr)))
        (and (not (zerop calendar-daylight-time-offset))
!            (calendar-nth-named-day -1 0 10 year))))
  
  
  ;;;###autoload
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                      (nth 5 calendar-current-time-zone-cache))))
          (if expr (eval expr)))
        (and (not (zerop calendar-daylight-time-offset))
!            (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 11 year))))
  
  
  ;;;###autoload

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*** calendar.texi.~1.50.~	2006-12-15 07:16:58.000000000 +1100
--- calendar.texi	2006-12-20 16:01:19.000000000 +1100
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  practice}, not historical fact.  Historically, for instance, the start
  of daylight savings time and even its existence have varied from year to
  year, but present United States law mandates that daylight savings time
! begins on the first Sunday in April.  When the daylight savings rules
  are set up for the United States, Emacs always uses the present
  definition, even though it is wrong for some prior years.
  
--- 530,536 ----
  practice}, not historical fact.  Historically, for instance, the start
  of daylight savings time and even its existence have varied from year to
  year, but present United States law mandates that daylight savings time
! begins on the second Sunday in March.  When the daylight savings rules
  are set up for the United States, Emacs always uses the present
  definition, even though it is wrong for some prior years.
  
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*** 1593,1606 ****
    The values for Cambridge, Massachusetts are as follows:
  
  @example
! (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 4 year)
! (calendar-nth-named-day -1 0 10 year)
  @end example
  
  @noindent
! That is, the first 0th day (Sunday) of the fourth month (April) in
! the year specified by @code{year}, and the last Sunday of the tenth month
! (October) of that year.  If daylight savings time were
  changed to start on October 1, you would set
  @code{calendar-daylight-savings-starts} to this:
  
--- 1593,1606 ----
    The values for Cambridge, Massachusetts are as follows:
  
  @example
! (calendar-nth-named-day 2 0 3 year)
! (calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 11 year)
  @end example
  
  @noindent
! That is, the second 0th day (Sunday) of the third month (March) in
! the year specified by @code{year}, and the first Sunday of the eleventh month
! (November) of that year.  If daylight savings time were
  changed to start on October 1, you would set
  @code{calendar-daylight-savings-starts} to this:
  

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Re: US daylight savings for 2007

[Robert J. Chassell]

According to 
    http://www.answers.com/topic/daylight-saving-time
on 2006 Mar 25

    In 1987 federal legislation fixed the period of daylight saving
    time in the United States as the first Sunday (previously the last
    Sunday) in April to the last Sunday in October; it was expanded in
    2005 (effective 2007) to extend from the second Sunday in March to
    the first Sunday in November. Arizona, Hawaii, and sections of
    Indiana do not use daylight saving time.

Thus, if you are in the US, in your .emacs file, put the following:

;; effective 2007, in the US, daylight saving time extends from
;; the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
;;   In 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4. 
;;   In 2008, daylight time begins on March 9  and ends on November 2.

;; second Sunday in March 
(setq calendar-daylight-savings-starts '(calendar-nth-named-day 2 0 3 year))
;; first Sunday in November
(setq calendar-daylight-savings-ends '(calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 11 year))

Re: US daylight savings for 2007

[Kevin Ryde]

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
>
> ;; second Sunday in March 
> (setq calendar-daylight-savings-starts '(calendar-nth-named-day 2 0 3 year))
> ;; first Sunday in November
> (setq calendar-daylight-savings-ends '(calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 11 year))

Yes.  I was proposing to make that the default in the code, following
the way the manual says that the code defaults to current US rules.
(Not that the default in the code will be often reached these days,
certainly it's not on a gnu system.)

Re: US daylight savings for 2007

[Richard Stallman]

I installed your changes.  Thanks.