On 2025-11-05 09:22, Robert Elz via tz wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:11:35 +0000, Clive D.W. Feather via tz wrote:
| So isn't Phoenix just in Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year round?
It is ... but I think that the point of the OP's message was that they think of themselves as being in Mountain Time in winter, and in Pacific Time in summer (which means that when they see adverts for something happening at a particular time in different zones, they look at the Mountain Time version in winter, and the Pacific Time version in Summer).
That's what was meant by: | Because of this, every spring and fall, Arizona's effective time alignment | shifts
I suspect that the hope was that inventing a new zone just for them would somehow solve this problem, which I doubt it would, as I doubt that Arizona has enough population for anyone to publish what their time would be (in fact, from what I recall of the way most of this happens, the entire Mountain timezone doesn't ... most ads I have seen seem to give at most Pacific, Central, and Eastern, versions of the time things are to happen, and ignore Hawaii, Alaska, and Mountain, and everywhere else not using the same time as one of LA, Chicago, or New York).
Our local (Spokane, WA, US) PBS network shows default (Pacific) and Mountain (alternate) times on their ads, like: 8/9 MT. As far as I have not heard, no Canadian urban-only, digital-only transmitters have a range extending south of the border, or any network cable or satellite distribution into US markets, unlike major American networks available in every timezone in Canada, from multiple timezones. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry