BASIN-3D/basin3d

USGS employs day light savings

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USGS employs day light savings time in the following way.

             "timeZoneInfo": {
                    "defaultTimeZone": {
                        "zoneOffset": "-07:00",
                        "zoneAbbreviation": "MST"
                    },
                    "daylightSavingsTimeZone": {
                        "zoneOffset": "-06:00",
                        "zoneAbbreviation": "MDT"
                    },
                    "siteUsesDaylightSavingsTime": true}

The timestamps do not include the offset or zone abbreviation. One would assume that the change happens automatically during the calendar year per the scheduled changes.

BASIN-3D does not pass this information on to the users. We currently do not report the UTC offset for USGS data.