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Interesting that so much of the country seems dissatisfied with their current time zone. Being in WA, I'm certainly hoping that it moves forward for us.
by moonka 7y ago
Interesting that so much of the country seems dissatisfied with their current time zone. Being in WA, I'm certainly hoping that it moves forward for us.
- aiiane 7y agoThe linked page is a bit misleading, because it's not necessarily so much that people are dissatisfied with their current time zone as they are dissatisfied with it changing for half the year. The linked page portrays it as e.g. CA moving to "MST" but that doesn't actually accurately represent what's proposed, because the lack of a DST switch is meaningfully different from just moving to the same timezone as current Mountain time states.
- rrix2 7y agoMST is Mountain Standard Time is UTC-7. California wants to change their clocks such that their time is PDT, which is Pacific Daylight Time which is UTC-7. Rather than have different colors for daylight times versus standard times, they're effectively colored by UTC offset. This does not seem misleading to me. The page is trying to provide a visual for how "off" our maps and tzdata are going to be if laws like these pass without a unified vision of the move. What sort of reasonable thing is California and western Kansas being in the same time zone but not Utah? EDIT: And after all that, there will still be states that will observe daylight savings time.
- aiiane 7y agoIt would be more accurate if the left hand map had 2-color stripes to indicate both the summer offset and the winter offset, e.g. if CA were striped blue and red on the left, and solid red on the right.
- jml7c5 7y agoIs there any difference between saying "PDT all year round" and "MST"? Though I do agree that the graphic could be better, as the important information is really just: will the winter time move/not move 1 hour, and will the state observe/not observe daylight savings time. They need to add crosshatching or similar to indicate the latter info.
- bsder 7y agoYes, a legal one. Current federal law does not allow you to stay on "Daylight" time year round while you can stay on "Standard" year round.
- jcranmer 7y agoThe colors are really hard to understand. Essentially, gray means "would stay on daylight savings time," i.e., follow the time to their left in winter and to their right in summer. The colors mean "would stay on this time year-round." So if a state changes color, it means "drop DST and use summer time", and if it stays the same, it means "drop DST and use winter time." The states that would stay on winter time are ID, AZ, CO, NM, ND, KS, OK, HI, AK, IL, MI, OH, NY, PA. The states that would stay on summer time are WA, OR, CA, MT, WY, UT, MN, IA, MO, AR, TN, MS, AL, FL, SC, NC, WV, DE, CT, RI, VT, NH, MA, ME, DC. Some are undecided as what to do (i.e., GA, TX and VA), while IN proposes to move to the Central Time winter time rather than stay in either Eastern summer or winter time.
- lscotte 7y agoExcept that AZ is gray in the right graph and we already do MST year round with no plans to change. And then Nevada is listed as N/A for proposed time zone which makes no sense. So, yes it is confusing, and a bit incomplete - thanks for your efforts to decode it!
- chrismcb 7y agoI don't know what gray means, undecided maybe. It certainly doesn't mean stay on dst. Texas is saying no more dst, but unsure of which time to stay on. Same with GA.
- Gene_Parmesan 7y agoMy time zone's fine (EST), I just hate having the clocks shift so the sun is setting at like 4:20 pm during the winter. Leave it the way it is the rest of the year and help out my seasonal depression!
- snarf21 7y agoAs someone else said, everyone is kinda okay with their time zone but hate changing twice a year. If they get to pick from the two, they'd rather have more "time" and sun after work than before it.