Resurrecting this thread because Metlakatla has voted to reverse their prior decision. The community will be changing back on the 20th of this month and are hopeful the tz db can be updated for them. -Ryan Article: https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-al... [image: image.png] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AKTechOps <http://serrc.org/techops> | techops@serrc.org | *(907) 523-7290* *| Brian 523-7248 | Michaela 523-7258 | Nate 523-7275 | Nick 523-7291 | Ryan 523-7272 | SERRC 586-6806 |* On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:46 PM Aaron Brown <asb110273@gmail.com> wrote:
That's a great article. But there appears to be a mistake. It says about Little Diomede, "the sun did not reach its zenith until 3:20 p.m. during the winter and 4:20 p.m. during the summer." I believe this should be 2:20 pm and 3:20 pm as Little Diomede, at around 170 is the equivalent of about 2.3 time zones west of the 135 deg meridian.
Aaron
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:13 AM D Nathan Cookson <dorzak@gmail.com> wrote:
The other question is does the local government have the authority or is this another situation like Little Diomede, Alaska.
There are many cultural and political issues around time zones in Alaska. I believe to be legally recognized the DoT has to sign off on it.
https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/kee...
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On Nov 12, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
Given that it’s in the past, do we really want to wait till people start complaining?
That's what we've done in the past, as I recall, for low-population locations. It's the usual cost-benefit tradeoff.
