[EAS] Form-Two Deadline - No Time Zones Stated!

[Sean Donelan]

As always consult a licensed attorney, and not an internet list.  Unless 
otherwise specified in law or regulation, U.S. Code specifies the default 
time zone for official acts is the District of Columbia. In other words, 
unless the FCC (or other law) specifies otherwise, its Eastern time.

In practice, the FCC just wants licensees to file their ETRS forms. It 
hasn't cut-off submissions after the deadline, and has accepted 
submissions days/months late.

For next pendantic discussion, does midnight occur at 0000 or 2400, i.e. 
is midnight included at the beginning or end of the day.

4 USC 72
"All offices attached to the seat of government shall be 
exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as 
otherwise expressly provided by law."

15 USC 262
"In all statutes, orders, rules, and regulations relating to 
the time of performance of any act by any officer or department of the 
United States, whether in the legislative, executive, or judicial 
branches of the Government, or relating to the time within which any 
rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall 
not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
States, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall insofar 
as practicable (as determined by the Secretary of Transportation) be the 
United States standard time of the zone within which the act is to be 
performed."