Uniform Time Act

Uniform Time Act

Long title	An Act to promote the observance of a uniform system of time throughout the United States.
Nicknames	Uniform Time Act of 1966
Enacted by	the 89th United States Congress
Effective	April 1, 1967
Citations
Public law	89-387
Statutes at Large	80 Stat. 107
Codification
Acts amended	Standard Time Act of 1918
Titles amended	15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade
U.S.C. sections created	15 U.S.C. ch. 6, subch. IX §§ 260–267
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1404 by Sens. Gale McGee (D–WY) and Norris Cotton (R–NH) Passed the House on March 16, 1966 (292–93, in lieu of H.R. 6785) Reported by the joint conference committee on March 30, 1966; agreed to by the House on March 30, 1966 (282–91)   Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 13, 1966

The Uniform Time Act of 1966, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–387, 80 Stat. 107, enacted April 13, 1966, was a Law of the United States to "promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones" prescribed by the Standard Time Act of 1918. Its intended effect was to simplify the official pattern of where and when daylight saving time (DST) is applied within the U.S. Prior to this law, each state had its own scheme for when DST would begin and end, and in some cases, which parts of the state should use it.^[1]