Mercurial > emacs
changeset 74872:789e50a3feec
(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.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 24 Dec 2006 03:01:49 +0000 |
| parents | 07a95dc49e5a |
| children | 6847173f4e31 |
| files | man/calendar.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/calendar.texi Sun Dec 24 02:59:28 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/calendar.texi Sun Dec 24 03:01:49 2006 +0000 @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ 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 @@ 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: