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Every step to completely abolish daylight savings time is a good one.
Isn’t it a permanent change to Daylight Saving Time? There’s no switch back to Standard Time in November.
At which point it’s no longer a seasonal shift; it becomes standard, just an hour off from where standard used to be.
For those wanting to avoid systems failing to land on a specific time, PCT is exactly the same as Arizona Time (MST that doesn’t change).
Right. But Arizona is on permanent Standard Time. The comment I was responding to claimed Daylight Saving Time is being abolished but it’s a permanent switch to Daylight Saving Time under a new name. Mountain Standard Time (Arizona) matches that of Pacific Daylight Saving Time (BC); if they both switched to Standard or Daylight Saving Time they wouldn’t be on the same hour.
I keep seeing tons of comments like “it’s so good to have permanent morning sunlight” that are just false and I think a big part of that is comments that completely misunderstand the change.
It’s two different discussions. Any standardizd time is no longer “daylight savings” if it’s the standard time year round. It’s just the time.
That’s totally separate from the argument that the time in relation to actual daylight can make a difference.
Thing is, depending on where you are in the zone, it’s going to make a different difference. The reality is that in the summer it’s light when you go to work and light when you get home. In the winter it’s dark when you go to work and dark when you get home. The crossover point in spring and autumn will shift by an hour. People will no longer need to adapt twice a year to doing things an hour later or earlier. Those are the only differences.
I say this as someone who has a 7-3:30 work day. We can easily adjust when we do things in relation to the clock OR the sun. Switching between two different schedules is the time waster.
As the province nears its first time not changing the clocks back in November, B.C. has now adopted a new time zone code “PCT.”
PCT is the abbreviation for Pacific Time, and can now be used instead of PST or PDT.
I could be wrong here, but I always understood “Pacific Time” to already be the name of the timezone that observes DST. Same with “Mountain Time,” “Central Time,” and “Eastern Time” being the names of the timezones regardless of whether they were on DST or not.
I see this leading to confusion.
Edited to add, I do understand that “PCT” is new, so that shouldn’t be confusing. But if you say to someone “Pacific Time,” I think it will not be clear.
Originally it’s PST for Pacific Standard Time and PDT for Pacific Daylight savings Time.
Yes, I understand. I think I maybe didn’t express myself well. To me, and I think to anyone I’ve ever spoken, “Pacific Time” refers to PST/PDT depending on what time of year it is. Meaning to say, if you just say “Pacific Time”, then it’s a conditional time. I believe if you even search popular timezone websites, that is how they’ll treat it. Example below.
Yeah; PCT is useful for digital systems to identify a zone that doesn’t shift time. Although personally I would have done something like put an X at the end of each zone that doesn’t shift.
Makes me wonder what other languages do for the abbreviations though.
I don’t see anything that explicitly defined why they chose PCT, but I think it seems reasonable. PST means Pacific Standard Time, and PDT means Pacific Daylight Time. I could see PCT making Pacific Constant Time, or maybe Pacific Coordinated Time (in reference to UTC). Changing the middle character seems consistent with convention for timezone abbreviations.
They sprung ahead and are staying sprung ahead.
Good for them. More sunlight after work.
