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  12 <title>Statement of Support for 2007 Daylight Saving Time Changes</title>
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  18 <h2 style="text-align: center">Statement of Support for 2007 Daylight
  19 Saving Time Changes</h2>
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  21 <p>In August 2005 the US Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which
  22 changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time
  23 (DST).  When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three
  24 weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will
  25 end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November)
  26 than what had traditionally occurred.  For more information see:
  27 <a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html">
  28 http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html</a></p>
  29
  30 <p>These changes to DST do not require any special changes or fixes to
  31 the Subversion code.  Subversion primarily uses dates/times to record
  32 when changes have been committed to the repository.  This code runs
  33 on the server and gets the current date/time from the operating system
  34 and converts it to UTC using routines provided by the operating system.
  35 The Subversion client receives these dates from the server and converts
  36 them to the local time zone for display using routines provided by
  37 the client operating system.  As such, you should only need to install
  38 the patches provided for your operating system and really you should
  39 only need to make sure the time on the server is properly adjusted
  40 for DST.</p>
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  42 <p><b>-The Subversion Development Team</b></p>
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