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The
Standard Time Act, , also known as the
Calder Act, was the first
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
federal law implementing standard time and
Daylight saving time in the United StatesDaylight saving time in the United States was first observed in 1918. Most areas of the United States currently observe daylight saving time, with the exceptions being the states of Arizona and Hawaii along with the territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana...
. It authorized the
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to define each time zone.
The section concerning daylight saving time was repealed by the act titled
An Act For the repeal of the daylight-saving law, .