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California moves toward permanent daylight saving time
- taylodl 8y agoInstead of adopting PDT year-round why wouldn't they adopt PST instead? That way instead of being 3-4 hours behind the East Coast they'd instead be 2-3 hours behind?
- squozzer 8y agoI think you mean MST.
- saltcured 8y agoAs mentioned in the previous reply above, mountain standard time (MST) is the same offset from UTC as pacific daylight time (PDT) and one hour ahead of pacific standard time (PST). Sticking with PDT would keep the clocks 1 hour ahead of solar time year round, so solar noon in the astronomical center of the timezone is at 1pm instead. I'd rather have local standard time year round so noon means solar noon +/- 30 minutes or so across the whole timezone. I don't care about having my clock display digits consistent with someone far away. We cannot expect people to decouple from solar time no matter what games we play with clock display values. So, coordinating over distance will always involve thinking about time offsets as well as local cultures and conditions.
- aeternus 8y agoThe main purpose for time is to synchronize events. As the world becomes more global, I'd like to see more systems use UTC time, and people just get used to when solar noon occurs in UTC in their locale.
- laurex 8y agoHere's hoping the rest of the country comes to its senses and follows suit.
- devy 8y agoIs this even legal? According to Wikipedia, DST observance is regulated at the Federal level by Department of Transportation. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States
- yammajr 8y agoAnd Cannabis is regulated by the DEA and the FDA, being regulated by a federal agency hasn't stopped them from doing their own thing in the past, why should this be any different?
- ilyagr 8y agoI can't help but imagine the world where the state government is in one time zone and the federal one is in another. At least one of the traveler, the airport, and the FAA & TSA will be on a different time zone than the others.
- ryanchoi 8y agoArizona and Hawaii are already on standard time throughout the entire year, so I assume that a similar exemption statute will be needed that starts at the state level? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_...
- dragonwriter 8y agoRegulated does not mean required. The boundaries are federally fixed, as are the time offsets and the dates of the DST transition. States are free to choose whether or not to observe DST. (But they can't choose permanent Daylight time, or choose a different zone without federal permission; so permanent daylight plans tend to involve petitioning thenfeds to be moved one zone east and then adopting permanent standard time.)
- eesmith 8y agoThe article says: "In order for this to actually be put in place, California legislature has to now approve it by a two-thirds vote, and then Congress would have to allow the deviation."
- lamarpye 8y agoPraise Jesus