From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 10:09:44 CDT
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Jrieger10 wrote:
> What is the deal with the time zone in Arizona being called Mountain
> time in the summer and Pacific time in the winter?
Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time year-round -- it does not do a
twice-yearly Daylight Savings Time shift. The rest of the US seems to
have trouble understanding this. Since Mountain Standard Time is the same
as Pacific Daylight Time, one way of looking at it is that Arizona is on
MST in winter and PDT in summer.
(Similarly, much of Saskatchewan -- where I grew up -- is on Central
Standard Time year-round.)
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net