alt Hacker NewsIgnoring the fact itself, doing this in a single province and not the whole country is the really wild thing for me (as a European). I have opinions about DST but having it different per German state sounds much more horrible than anything we have now, no matter how complicated the rules are.
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Well, Canada is a VERY wide country. We have 4.5 time zones across the country, and BC itself is as wide as Germany.
Perhaps even more surprising for you maybe is that even within a Canadian province, its not just one time zone. There are several regions along the border between BC and Alberta that already eliminated daylight savings time years and years ago, so they were on a different time zone for half the year.
E.g. the Peace River Region
Less of a problem in a county that is more or less laid out East to West with massive 500 mile wide provinces. British Columbia deciding to adopt Mountain Standard Time is more or less equivalent to Portugal using Berlin time.
Canadian provinces are structurally more like countries within the EU than states within Germany. The EU operates with more than one timezone.
For your entertainment, look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Arizona#Daylight_savin...
Arizona, unlike the rest of the US, does not observe Daylight Savings Time (good!). However the Navajo Nation, whose territory is largely in Arizona, does. However the Hopi Reservation, which is inside the Navajo Nation territory inside Arizona, does not.
Let me rephrase that:
- The USA does DST
- Arizona (in the USA) does not do DST
- Navajo Nation (in Arizona) does do DST
- Hopi Reservation (in Navajo Nation) does not do DST