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Fix 1948-1966 transitions for Los Angeles
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These changes came from research I did to check the historical
background behind Assembly Bill 385, which would abolish daylight
saving time in California, and which has passed the CA Senate
Appropriations Committee's suspense file. See: White JB. Bill
letting California end Daylight Saving Time clears key
committee. Sacramento Bee 2016-08-11.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article95116732.html

* NEWS, northamerica (CA): For America/Los_Angeles, correct
spring-forward transition times from 02:00 to 02:01 in 1948, from
02:00 to 01:00 in 1950-1966.  Correct the fall-back transition
date for early 1949 from 1949-01-01 to 1949-01-16.
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New leap second 2016-12-31 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 52.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)

Changes affecting past time stamps

For America/Los_Angeles, spring-forward transition times have been
corrected from 02:00 to 02:01 in 1948, and from 02:00 to 01:00 in
1950-1966. The fall-back transition date for early 1949 has been
corrected from 1949-01-01 to 1949-01-16.

Changes affecting code

zic no longer generates binary files containing POSIX TZ-like
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# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren),
# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of
# Malheur county), and Washington

# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-19):
# In 1948 California had an electricity shortage. To save electricity,
# in early February PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during
# daylight hours, causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day.
# (This did not change legal time, and is not part of the data here.)
# See: Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948.
# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 1973-11.
# http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c
#
# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14
# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move
# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of:
# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf
# Apparently the governor did not exercise the option.
#
# In response:
#
# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much
# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important
# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California.
# -- Ross, p 25
#
# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12,
# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's
# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed
# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See:
# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props
# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props
#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D
Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S
Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D
Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 16 2:00 0 S
Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D
Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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