It’s like it’s convoluted for the sake of being convoluted
Anytime I hear about DST and timezones, I have to post this Computerphile video.
My province just did this. we have our own time now but go make it extra confusing we are called PCT instead of PST. And outlook fucked every single person’s meetings on Nov 1.
Are you from Manitoba or BC?
BC. Didnt realize Manitoba did it as well
Island in an island.
Not pictured is the cluster of buildings that is the Navajo Embassy to the Hopi Nation. I’ve been told that that “block” and the surrounding road observe DLS.
So if going from Phoenix to the Four Corners, there is a route where you’d theoretically need to change your clock 6 times before leaving the state.
For comparison, the deepest recursive of this phenomenon for islands and lakes is a 4th order island
And if your phone syncs with your car, your car’s time will flip back and forth a lot.
An extraterrestrial visiting Earth would scratch its head in wonder.
If they have a home planet that rotates and also has a tiled axis, they probably have their own time weirdness. If entities are on different sides of the planet from each other and want to use “small numbers” for time everywhere, they’ll probably be doing something similar.
As sensible as it would be to use a single clock for a planet, it isn’t really person compatible. It’s why the US still uses Fahrenheit for temperatures. Celsius is more sensible, but for a person 0=cold and 100=injury and death is too wide. Fahrenheit’s 0=cold and 100=uncomfortable is appealing.
That probably explains why so many people and countries have adopted Fahrenheit 😜
Probably not because they would have seen our tilted axis on the way in.
Timezones should be diagonal lmao
And change over the year!
You can see the timezone difference in that second map! And the white line at the north of the Nordics going up and down! This is so fascinating, what’s the source?
That still doesn’t explain what’s happening in Arizona.
You have to have more darkness at some point in the day during winter, there’s no getting around it. Arizona just made a choice to have darker mornings in lieu of no clock changes.
And to be fair they are further south so the daylight isn’t quite as scarce as it is in more northern states. I think getting rid of the clock changes makes a bit more sense the further south you go.
I can see the argument for DST or no DST. I can even sort of see the argument for DST matching the economic powerhouse a few hundred miles away. But there is nothing in planetary physics to justify 3 different time zone usages in such a small area, with major cities being on a different one than all the area around them, or for one quadrant to be (mostly) different from the rest of it.
Moreover, there is only a 2 hour shift of sunrise/sunset from the peak of summer to the depths of winter. That’s barely enough to justify the hassle of DST in my opinion.
What’s the difference between pink DST and cream-colored DST?
Different time zones. Pink is PST(-8), cream is mountain(-7)
If your DST is pink, go see a doctor.
You can get a creame for that
Time zones. Cali and Nevada are in Pacific.
Are you sure you want to know?
We don’t talk about such things in my family…
