Standardization of Time: Hearing Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fourth Congress, First Session on S.J. Res. 135, a Joint Resolution to Create a Commission to Investigate the Standardization of Time in the United States and Its Territorial Possessions, May 26, 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 11 pages |
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Page 11 - Sunday the twenty-first day of May until two o'clock in the morning Greenwich mean time on Sunday the first day of October, and His Majesty may in any subsequent year, by Order in Council made during the continuance of the present war, declare this Act to be in force during that year, and in such case the prescribed period in that year shall be such period as may be fixed by the Order in Council. • (3) Wherever any expression of time occurs in any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, order, regulation,...
Page 11 - Act, to be in force during that year, and in such case the prescribed period in that year shall be such period as may be fixed by the Order in Council. (3) Wherever any expression of time occurs in any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, order, regulation, rule, or byelaw, or in any deed, time-table, notice, advertisement, or other document, the time mentioned or referred to shall be held, during the prescribed period, to be the time as fixed by this Act: Provided that where in consequence of this...
Page 11 - Its. 1. — (1) During the prescribed period in each year in which this Act is in force, the time for general purposes in Great Britain shall be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time. (2) This Act shall be in force in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and in that year the prescribed period shall be from two o'clock in the morning Greenwich mean time on Sunday the twenty-first day of May until two o'clock in the morning Greenwich mean time on Sunday the first day of October, and His Majesty...
Page 7 - ... line and an irregular line from Bismarck, ND, to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The mountain, the time of which is that of the 105th meridian, includes all between the lastnamed line and the western boundary of Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. The Pacific, the time of which is that of the 120th meridian, includes all between the last-named line and the Pacific coast. The difference in time between adjoining sections is one hour. Thus, when it is...
Page 11 - Act to be in force during that year, and in such case the prescribed period for that year shall be such period as may be fixed by Order in Council : Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to declare, and it is hereby declared, that the Summer Time Act, 1916, as so amended as aforesaid, shall be in force during the year...
Page 11 - Department may, on the application of the body or person by whom the byelaw, regulation, or other instrument was made or is administered, make such adjustment in the time so fixed as in the circumstances may seem to the Department proper, and if any question arises as to what Government Department is the appropriate Government Department, the question shall be finally determined by the Treasury.