As Daylight Saving Time Approaches, a Good Opportunity to Look at U.S. Time Zones

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Daylight saving time
  • Time zones
  • Maps
  • Information, data, and knowledge
  • Time
  • Time alteration
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/p4ad-g451
• Resource Type:
  Statistical Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Abstract:
  The clocks in many American households will be set an hour ahead this weekend, signaling the arrival of Daylight Saving Time (DST). This “Spring Forward” tradition is observed across the nation, except for two states (Arizona—exclusive of the Navajo Nation—and Hawaii) and the five major U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, all of which reside in America’s lesser-known time zones. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has supervised standard time since the responsibility was transferred by Congress from the Interstate Commerce Commission when USDOT was established in 1966. Within USDOT, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics maintains a dataset of the nation’s time zones and their geographical boundaries as part of the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD).
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/81840/dot_81840_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 483.72 KB]
• Collection(s):
  BTS Data Spotlight
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