So, if this thing passes the house and gets signed, does AZ make a switch to MDT or just go permanently to PDT?
What about HI? There’s no good reason for them to switch to anything other than what they currently have.
As written, areas that do not observe DST (Hawai’i, and Arizona-except- Naabeehó-Bináhásdzo) stay on standard time.
As a practical matter, in the unlikely event this passes the House, I imagine some states will petition to change time zones.
Alaska is the state where DST doesn’t make sense, BTW, since attempts to “save” daylight in the summer and winter are futile due to the latitude. They do DST only to facilitate time conversions with the rest of the country.
The bill gives each state the option to opt-in to Standard time instead. Looking at that map maybe Michigan, Indiana, and Idaho would want to do that.
Indiana used to have year-round standard time. I wonder what the Indianans old enough to remember that think of this proposal.
I think that, like Alaska, they switched primarily just to have the same differential as everyone else year round.
I was so confused until I read the next sentence 
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Arizona does standard time, but the Navaho nation doesn’t. But the Hopi nation (inside the Navaho nation) doesn’t. But there’s a part of the Navaho nation inside the Hopi that does…
Apparently there is a stretch of road where you’d have to change clocks like 7 times.
I’ve driven there. Basically just ignored the clock for a while.
Typo (or bad auto-correct?) fixed!!!
I thought several counties in Indiana still do?
:ctm: I know dat feel.
Having struggled with insomnia this week, I’d rather have year round standard time than year round DST.
I don’t think so. I think it used to be like 90% of the state had year-round standard time but the handful of counties that were suburban Chicago did CST/CDT and 1 or 2 counties that were suburban Cincinnati did EST/EDT so that those counties matched the big cities they were adjacent to.
I think that nothing changed for those two clusters of counties and then the 90% of the state that had year round EST switched to EST/EDT matching the county(ies?) near Cincinnati.
ETA: So I think all of Indiana does DST now. But some is EST/EDT and a little is CST/CDT.
like many people who post here, I am better than average at math. (compared to genpop I mean. not you people.)
yet the one math i foul up twice a year is the time to set a conference call when it is across time zones. You want 11am pacific? Sure, I’m open at 9am that day (central time zone). BOOK IT!
i also don’t mind DST.
i am more likely to die in a fire that wasn’t detected bc i never changed the batteries.
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The main thing I mind about DST is that they start it too early, and they have it go on til too late.
Keep it for summer only, thanks.
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Dog love the shift to DST (yay, early food) but not the switch to standard time (where the hell is my food).
Wildlife gets hit by traffic after the time changes. They leaned when it was safe to cross the highway, then the humans suddenly showed up at the wrong time.
Sounds like we practically ambushed them
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Reminds of the complaint “why did they put the wildlife crossing on the winding section of the road? Couldn’t they put it on the straight section where we could see them better?”
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Nifty tool that attempts to address the DST question, at least within the US:
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