![]() Pacific Time = PT = either PST or PDT, depending on Daylight Saving Time rules.Pacific Daylight Time = PDT = UTC -7 hours.Pacific Standard Time = PST = UTC -8 hours, regardless of the date.For residents of states that observe Daylight Saving Time, omit “standard” or “daylight”. For Arizona residents, that means communicating Pacific Time, PT, during the spring/summer months and Mountain Time, during the fall/winter months. The solution was incredibly simple, for people in places that observe Daylight Saving Time, simply omit the words “standard” or “daylight” from your time zone vocabulary. The biggest challenge was around the use of the term Mountain Standard Time and its abbreviation, MST, when the person really meant to communicate Mountain Daylight Time, MDT. This caused a lot of confusion communicating meetings times, especially in the weeks leading up to their clocks changing in the spring or in the fall. You see Phoenix follows Mountain Standard Time, MST (UTC -7), all year round while Denver switches between Mountain Standard Time, MST (UTC -7), and Mountain Daylight Time, MDT (UTC -6), depending on the season. The issue became very apparent to me while working with a team that was split between Phoenix & Denver. Unfortunately, this seems to really confuse people in places that change their clocks depending on the time of year. Instead, we keep our clocks set to seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, UTC, 365.256 days per year. The State of Arizona, excluding the Navajo Nation, is one of the few places in the United States that does not intentionally move the hour hand of our clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall. As a lifelong resident of Arizona, one might think that I have been sheltered to the silliness of Daylight Saving Time, DST. ![]()
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