Talk:Mountain Time Zone

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Article is POV as it favours the US states as more important than the Canadian provinces --Nick Dillinger 08:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm living in the MST part of Canada and I'm not sure why it seems to favour the US. Canada is listed first, followed by Mexico and then the US. If I remember right there is part of the NWT (Cantung) that is on Pacific (Yukon) time and part of BC that is on Mountain. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

A bigger concern is that "standard time" is only synchronized with UTC-7 during regular (non-daylight saving) days. During daylight saving, most of this region springs forward by one hour and goes with UTC-6. I hope we can get this right before April 2nd. --Uncle Ed 18:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

this really should be on the time zone talk but Mountain Standard Time (MST) is always -7. From the first sunday in April to the last sunday in October most places listed here would be on Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) or rarely called Central Standard Time. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Yes, of course you are exactly right. MST is always in effect, 365 days a year in Arizona (except the non-Hopi parts of the Navajo reservation). During Daylight Saving Time - which by the way is 57% of the year! - most of the Mountain Time Zone goes on MDT.
The question is whether time zones are places and standard & DST are times, as I figure. Or do the names of the zones change twice a year? Authorities vary, and I daresay no one really cares as long as the clocks are set correctly :-) --Uncle Ed 22:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
It's more traditional in the US to use _DT under daylight savings time but _ST is also commonly used. It's not the wiki's job to tell folks their doing it wrong anyway. Jon 19:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

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"Jackpot, Nevada observes Mountain Time unofficially because of close economic ties with southern Idaho. Although officially on Mountain Time, Fort Pierre, South Dakota keeps Central Time because of its proximity to Pierre." Anything that would be in violation of offical standards needs cited. Jon 22:42, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major metropolitan areas

Why not include Rapid City, SD? -Amit, 03/01/07

[edit] MT & DST observance / Canada

Fort St. John, British Columbia claims that the region observes Mountain Time, but does not participate in DST. Can we verify if that's true for all parts of British Columbia in MT? If so, it should be mentioned here - it is for Arizona, et al. samwaltz 23:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name page?

Mountain Time Zone or Mountain Time Zone north America or Mountain Time Zone (north America) ? 222.252.255.116 01:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Well if there are no other Mountain Time Zones then it wouldn't need the "North America" disambiguation. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)