Even better is that within Arizona is the Navajo reservation, which does follow DST like the rest of the country. Even better still is that entirely within the Navajo reservation is the Hopi reservation, which like Arizona does not follow DST. At least all that was true like a decade ago when I drove through there and was very confused until someone explained it
I think the issue is going from the US having 4 time zones which roughly correspond to hour boundaries to having as many as 50 time zones in the absolute worst case scenario. Unless either the states all agree to let the bill go into effect at the same moment or all the states that are going to opt out can manage to opt out in advance of the effective date, we’re looking at states having spans of time during which daylight savings is permanently in effect in between other spans of time where it was intermittent. So any time calculations to display time in those regions would need to know at which moments these changes happened. If different states have different moments, it’s going to be an absolute mess.
I can’t wait. My computer won’t know what time it is until it knows which specific state I’m in. It’ll be a grand old time.
Arizona already does this. There should be an Arizona time zone in any OS made in the last god knows when.
Huh. TIL. Let a million time zones bloom!
Even better is that within Arizona is the Navajo reservation, which does follow DST like the rest of the country. Even better still is that entirely within the Navajo reservation is the Hopi reservation, which like Arizona does not follow DST. At least all that was true like a decade ago when I drove through there and was very confused until someone explained it
We will get at most 4 new time zones, between the PST/MST/CST/EST that stays the same, and the ones that become fixed to the time zone ahead of them.
There shouldn’t be an arizona
It’s already handled by modern computers, right? I mean, the US has multiple timezones so computers should be aware of your location anyway.
I think the issue is going from the US having 4 time zones which roughly correspond to hour boundaries to having as many as 50 time zones in the absolute worst case scenario. Unless either the states all agree to let the bill go into effect at the same moment or all the states that are going to opt out can manage to opt out in advance of the effective date, we’re looking at states having spans of time during which daylight savings is permanently in effect in between other spans of time where it was intermittent. So any time calculations to display time in those regions would need to know at which moments these changes happened. If different states have different moments, it’s going to be an absolute mess.
The tzdata database is probably gonna handle that no problem, the software vendors would have to update their stuff to geolocate more narrowly though