For more information, see Tzutil Command-Line Options. Trish Long is the El Paso Times' librarian and spends her time in the morgue, where the newspaper keeps its old clippings and photos.TimeZone specifies the time zone of the computer.įor a list of available time zones, use the tzutil /l command to view the available time zones in Windows 8. In the same manner, the Secretary of Transportation may also place Hudspeth County, Texas, in the mountain standard time zone, if the Hudspeth County Commissioners Court so requests in writing and if El Paso County is to be placed in that time zone.' 261), and section 5 of the Act of Ap(15 U.S.C. 265), the Secretary of Transportation may, upon written request of the County Commissioners Court of El Paso County, Texas, change the boundary line between the central standard time zone and the mountain standard time zone so as to place El Paso County in the mountain standard time zone, in the manner prescribed in section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918, as amended (15 U.S.C. 'Not withstanding the first section of the Act of Ma(15 U.S.C. On April 10, 1970, the following change was made to the Uniform Time Act:

You can see that such a charge, when we are trying to get other areas of the country to obey the law, could mitigate against us.' In short, the Department is in such a position that it can be accused of giving preferential treatment to one area. The Department cannot, of course, indefinitely postpone enforcement of a law that it is required to administer, and that it is in fact administering in other areas of the country. However, approximately two years have passed since that time and this Department has been unable to act on the petition since Congress has not passed the necessary enabling legislation. The petition was filed by Governor Connally in May 1967. 'In March of 1967, Secretary Boyd of this Department indicated by letter that he would delay consideration of enforcement efforts in western Texas under the circumstances pending consideration of a petition to change the zone boundary line. Under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, no state or political subdivision may provide a different time than that of the time zone in which it is placed. As you may be aware, under section 265 of Title 15 of the United States Code, the entire State of Texas is, by law, in the Central Time Zone. 'The attention of this Department has been recently called to the official State highway map of Texas which displays the western panhandle of Texas as being within the Mountain Time Zone. More: El Paso courthouse trees removed in 1915 could tell many tales Situation presents a problem Minor wanted to know why official Texas highway maps show El Paso in Mountain time when the law requires it to be in Central time. Minor, assistant general counsel for regulation of time zones. The Texas State Highway Department and County Judge Colbert Coldwell received letters from James B. Office of Transportation began to press harder on El Paso and adjoining counties to officially use Central Standard Time. No change to The Uniform Time Act was made. Clocks will move one hour ahead instead of two hours, as would have taken place if El Paso had also been placed on Central time.' 'El Paso will be placed on Mountain Daylight Time on April 30. According to Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Don Holmberg, steps will be taken to secure El Paso's permanent place in Mountain time. 'El Paso has been granted permission to remain, temporarily at least, in the Mountain time zone.

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The use of Central Daylight Time would require the El Paso area to conform from April through October to the time standard of the Eastern Standard Time zone.

The loss would result from loss of El Paso trade, area business loss of tourist trade generated in the immediately adjacent New Mexico area, and removal or loss of common carrier activity that operates through El Paso.

The financial loss to El Paso resulting from a time zone differential between El Paso and Southern New Mexico was estimated to be $50,000,000 of the net spendable income.

The change would result in serious inconvenience and substantial financial loss to common carriers.

The more than 8,000 El Paso residents working at White Sands Missile Range would be required to work in one time zone and live in another.

The use of Central Standard Time would adversely affect commerce in the area.