Californians could vote to end daylight saving time under bill sent to governor

L A Times ^ | Patrick McGreevy

[BenLurkin]

Californians would be asked in a November ballot measure whether to end the biannual practice of moving their clocks ahead and back to comply with the Daylight Saving Time Act, under a bill the Assembly approved Thursday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown for consideration.

“This bill creates a pathway for California to stay on daylight saving time year-round,” Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) told his colleagues before they voted 63-4 to approve his bill.

"AB 807 is aimed to dramatically improve public health,” Chu said. “Studies have shown that when we switch our clocks, that action alone increases the chances for heart attacks, workplace injuries, crime and traffic accidents.”

[IYAS9YAS]

That's what I said early on, they pulled these time zones out of a hat.☺ They make little sense from my perspective.

Too true. Look at the Mountain Time Zone for all of North America, and it extends farther west in Canada than the Pacific Time Zone does in the United States. It almost extends as far west in northern Canada as does the Pacific Time Zone. A time zone map of the world is very interesting to look at. There are several zones that are on the half-hour.

Here's a good one: https://www.abington.k12.pa.us/teachers/duraba/Time%20Zone%20Map%20of%20the%20World.JPG

[dragnet2]

There ya go. And any state, such as Arizona, which has a straight line distance of only about 150 miles from the water on the Pacific Ocean, has no business being considered part of the, “Rocky Mountain Time Zone” in my humble opinion.

[scrabblehack]

Except that Arizona is Mountain Standard Time half the year and Mountain Standard Time = Pacific Daylight time the other half.

It sounds like CA wants Pacific Standard Time plus Pacific Standard Time = Yukon Daylight Time. So the CONUS would be in 5 time zones rather than 4 for half the year.

There are no states to the west of CA (apart from AK and HI, so it wouldn’t cause a problem).

[Mastador1]

If it makes sense Moonbeam will veto it!

[cowlitzron]

A poll at https://pemco.com/poll/do-you-favor-keeping-our-clocks-set-the-same-year-round showed a majority of Northwest residents favor keeping the clocks at the same offset from UTC year round. Most of those people want year round standard time. If, we went to year round standard time while staying in the same time zones, this would not require approval from Congress or the U.S. Department of Transportation. I would favor this move, but I would urge evening meetings be moved back an hour earlier on the clock so that I could still more easily get up before sunrise in June. This would avoid having more children going to school in the dark in December and January. Some work schedules could be moved back an hour earlier on the clock. I have my computers set to the Pacific/Pitcairn setting which has year round Pacific Standard Time, while keeping some clocks at Daylight Time until the first Sunday in November. I could say I usually wake up at 4 AM in June, but that is on the Pacific Standard Time clock which is used year round on Pitcairn Island and is the Daylight Time in most of Alaska.