Daylight Savings Time File

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The Daylight Savings Time file (dst.dat) is an editable ASCII text file that contains historical and predicted start and end dates for daylight savings time (DST). This data file is used by the TimeUtilities.IsInDaylightSavings() method.

 

Since the format of FreeFlyer's Daylight Savings Time file is an ASCII text file, the user can easily edit or add new lines as desired. Each line lists the start and end date and time for DST (in UTC Julian (GSFC)) and a comment (for user benefit).

 

The default file provides values that correlate to the USA’s standard declaration of DST dates: “The United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November”. More information about the history of Daylight Savings Time can be found here: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/daylight_time.

 

The format of the file is shown below.