From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:01:49 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Holidays): US daylight savings begins second Sunday X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.93~443 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73ae52d05b93481eabd8070f837d4af28953b78f;p=emacs.git (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. --- diff --git a/man/calendar.texi b/man/calendar.texi index f8bb9085f4c..48f5171415e 100644 --- a/man/calendar.texi +++ b/man/calendar.texi @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ a calendar window. 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 +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. @@ -1592,14 +1592,14 @@ day in the solar and lunar calculations. 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) +(calendar-nth-named-day 2 0 3 year) +(calendar-nth-named-day 1 0 11 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 +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: