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TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.

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