[conspire] Ti-i-i-ime, is on my side, yes it is

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> There are actually at least three camps, complicating the politics, 
> the third being 'year-around Summer Time', something a number of states
> including Washington are actively considering (while others stoutly or 
> passively pitch for one of the other two stances).  So, great, the number of
> bits of time weirdness crossing state borders can potentially go even 
> higher -- not limited, any more, to small amounts of High Weirdness like
> adjusting one's clocks upon crossing Boulder Dam between Nevada and
> Arizona, during non-summer parts of the year only.

Turns out, I explained a lot of this back at the time of the November
2018 vote on California Proposition 7
(http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/election-2018-11-06.html#prop7).  Quoting:


  RM partisan analysis:  All this really does is finally give the
  Legislature the authority to adjust Daylight Saving Time (DST) as
  necessary, including, with a 2/3 supermajority, making it year-round (if
  Federal law is changed to so permit), but by itself this measure makes
  no change to timekeeping, just facilitates changes if ever needed.

  Longer explanation:  In 1949, voter initiative Prop. 12 decreed statewide
  DST.  Therefore, only another voter initiative may change that:  This
  initiative repeals and replaces the 1949 proposition, with one giving
  our Legislature power prospectively to adjust DST without needing to
  submit the issue to statewide vote.  Going DST year-round will also be
  within the Legislature's power, but only if Congress first amends the
  Federal Uniform Time Act of 1966
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act) to so allow.  (Any time 
  adjustment by our Sacramento legislators would require 2/3 supermajority.)

  (As an aside, the Uniform Time Act already permits any state, territory,
  or Amerindian nation to remain on Standard Time year-around if it
  wishes.  Hawaii, Arizona, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
  Puerto Rico, the Northern Marianas Islands, and Hopi Nation do so.)



> (Nevada's on PST and PDT, seasonally changing.  Arizona is on Mountain
> Standard Time year-around, except for Navajo Nation lands in Arizona
> that seasonally observe MDT.)

Since Navajo Nation (of which the Hopi Nation is a surrounded enclave)
_does_ observe Daylight Time, imagine for illustration's sake that you
start out on a road trip vagueless eastwards across northern Arizona
from California, during (Ghu forbid) summer:

o  Needles, CA:  You're about to cross over eastbound on I-40 to
Arizona, so you'll need to set your clock forward an hour to Mountain
Daylight Time, right?  Um, no, Arizona doesn't do Daylight Time.  So,
steady on.  Don't touch that clock adjustment button; keep driving.

o  At Flagstaff, you head northeast, then angle southeast, and cross to
Navajo Nation lands.  _Now_, you adjust clocks forward an hour to
Mountain Daylight Time, pleased with your punctiliousness.

o  But, oops, within those Navajo Nation lands, you then cross a border
to the _Hopi Nation_ enclave, and must turn your clocks back an hour
again, to Mountain Standard Time.

o  Then, a few miles east of First Mesa, you cross a border _again_ to
Navajo Nation lands, and you must whip your clocks an hour forwards
again, to Mountain Daylight Time.

o  Then, somewhere east of Gallup, AZ, you pass out of Navajo Nation
lands into generic Arizona again, and perforce must set your clocks
backwards again, to Mountain Standard Time.

At this point, you would probably mount a sundial onto your car, and say
'screw it'.


End the madness.  ;->