Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> writes:
"Permanent DST" is unimaginative people who can't fathom that there could be another time zone immediately to their east.
Well, for California, I think it's just a matter of making the message comprehensible to the average person. "Stay permanently on the time zone that we're in for half the year anyway" is a lot easier to instantly grasp for folks who haven't spent lots of time thinking about time zones than "change California to the Mountain Standard time zone and do not use daylight saving time," and it means essentially the same thing apart from some tricky implementation details in computer representations that the average voter rightfully doesn't care about. -- Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>