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What is NYC AC § 2-106?

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This section establishes the observance of daylight saving time in New York City, specifying the advancement and reversion of standard time in relation to public proceedings. It regulates the timing for all courts, public offices, and legal proceedings. Applies to all entities involved in public and legal matters within the city.

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§ 2-106 Daylight saving time; effect thereof on public proceedings.

AC § 2-106

The standard time throughout the city of New York is that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at two o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in April of each year such standard time throughout the city shall be advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante-meridian of the last Sunday in October of each year, such standard time shall, by the retarding of one hour, be returned to the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, and all courts, public offices and legal and official proceedings shall be regulated thereby.

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