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BTS Asks for National Transit Map Data by Nov. 15 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is asking transit agencies to submit data by Nov. 15 for the second edition of the National Transit Map. Agencies must...
Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, March 13 for Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 13, 2016, when clocks will be turned ahead one hour, providing an additional hour of daylight in the evening. Under law, daylight...
Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, March 8 for Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, 2015, when clocks will be turned ahead one hour, providing an additional hour of daylight in the evening. Under law, daylight saving...
WASHINGTON – With the arrival of Halloween and the end of Daylight Saving Time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reminding...
Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, March 9 for Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9, 2014, when clocks will be turned ahead one hour, providing an additional hour of daylight in the evening. Under law, daylight saving...
Under the Uniform Time Act, as amended, States may exempt themselves from observing Daylight Saving Time by State law. If a State chooses to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must begin and end on federally mandated dates.
Under Federal law, there are two ways in which an area in the United States can be moved from one time zone to another.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) oversees the Nation's time zones. The oversight of time zones was assigned to DOT because time standards were first instituted by the railroad industry.