- From: John C Klensin <john+w3c@jck.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:10:58 -0400
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, www-international@w3.org
--On Thursday, August 14, 2014 19:47 +0000 "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com> wrote: > All, > > Thanks to everyone who responded to the call for comments. I > have updated the document located here: > > https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/HTML5TimeZone > > I hope that I have addressed everyone's comments fully. > Feedback is still welcome. The text now reads "... at that time of year. However, it is also the same as Mountain Standard Time (which is observed in the America/Phoenix time zone at this time of the year)". While that is true, it will add to, rather than reduce, confusion. Arizona doesn't go onto daylight time, so what they observe in the summer is indeed technically MST. But the entire rest of that zone, which is shown on innumerable maps of actual lines corresponding to roughly fifteen degree intervals as "Mountain Time", just as those maps show Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle as in "Pacific Time" does observe daylight time and is at -0600 during the "summer". If you want to preserve the "it is also the same as..." phrasing, I recommend you say something like " "it is also the same as the same as the time in Arizona, which does not observe Daylight Time and is therefore considered to be in the special America/Phoenix time zone". That would avoid introducing the MST terminology, getting tangled up with whether what Arizona observes in the summer is really MST, or the "this time of year" association with America/Phoenix since, by definition, Phoenix is in that zone year-round just as Seattle is in the America/Los Angeles zone year-round. Otherwise, I think the coverage of that section is now just right. john (An Arizona native who leaned to be twitchy about that "time zone" more than a half-century ago)
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