On Mar 17, 2022, at 15:13, John Levine via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:The bill passed by the Senate deletes 260a, and updates 261 to change
each of the numbers by an hour, 4 changes to 3, 5 to 4, and so forth
11 changes to 10 and the final 10 changes to 11.
But it does *not* change section 263. This means that the official
US names of the time zones change, which is really stupid. Since
Hawaii, Samoa, and Guam do not use daylight time, Hawaii will now be in
Alaska standard time, Samoa in Hawaii-Aleutian standard time,
and Guam in a time zone with no name.
Hmm. That’s not how I'm reading this. *If* I’m understanding it properly (heh, heh), the names themselves are not changing; rather, it’s the *meaning* of the names that are changing, viz-a-viz:
Atlantic standard time: UTC-4 => UTC-3
eastern standard time: UTC-5 => UTC-4
central standard time: UTC-6 => UTC-5
mountain standard time: UTC-7 => UTC-6
Pacific standard time: UTC-8 => UTC-7
Alaska standard time: UTC-9 => UTC-8
Hawaii-Aleutian standard time: UTC-10 => UTC-9
Samoa standard time: UTC-11 => UTC-10
Chamorro standard time: UTC+10 => UTC+9
So, despite all of the talk in the mainstream press about “permanent Daylight Saving Time”, this is actually a redefinition of *standard* time to one hour earlier than before, along with the *abolishment* of Daylight Saving Time.
Cheers!
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