Talk:Pacific Standard Time Zone

User:Kate: What was wrong with the info on Pitcairn Island? It does appear to be within this time zone. I didn't see any discussion about the removal and your edit summary didn't explain it. – KeithTyler 22:48, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

• The Pacific Time zone isn't an international designation. It's a name assigned by the U.S. government to a region that happens to be at the same longitude as Pitcairn Island. I don't know the official designation for the time in Pitcairn island, but since it's a British possession, the British government gets to name the local time zone. ---Isaac R 04:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wrong name

The Pacific Standard Time Zone (PST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

If that's true, where's Pacific Daylight Time Zone (PDT)?

Silly question. Of course there's no such thing. You often hear west-coast people refer to local time as "Pacific Standard Time" even when daylight time is in effect. I guess that usage crept into the title of this article. But the official name of the zone is "Pacific Time Zone". So the article should say,

The Pacific Time zone is a region that is roughly aligned with the international UTC-8 zone. During winter months, official time in the zone is Pacific Standard Time (PST) which is the same as UTC-8; during summer months official time is Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), which is the same as UTC-7.

You know, since all of the articles dealing with North American time zones have the word "Standard" in their titles, let's just leave them the way they are. Don't fix what ain't broke. Besides, I'll simply acknowledge their Daylight Saving Time equivalents in the body of each article. Denelson83 08:11, 12 May 2005 (UTC)