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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by InclinedPlane on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:53PM (#18313290)
Not exactly, they do not have complete control. States can choose their timezone, they can choose whether to adopt DST or not. They cannot choose to switch to DST all year round though.

Edit:

http://timezonereport.com/?page_id=313

The bottom line here is that a state (or other political subdivision — see the Wayne County, KY reference below) can only:

- Opt out of DST

- If not opted out of DST, you must advance an hour starting on the second Sunday of March and ending on the first Sunday in November.

- Petition the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and request a change of time zone designation.

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by function_seven on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:57PM (#18313308)
Can't they just move to the neighboring time zone and not adopt DST? (i.e. If California wants permanent summer time, they can switch to MST and sync up with Arizona ("America/Phoenix"))
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by InclinedPlane on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:22PM (#18313400)
See my edit, they have to petition to change their time zone.
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by isostatic on Saturday October 27, 2018 @03:31AM (#18314719)
Bit confusing as you open the post with "States can choose their timezone"
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by rossdavidh on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:36PM (#18313456)
Texas has, in recent years, changed the dates at which they adopted DST more than once (it was something to do with Halloween trick-or-treating and candy lobbyists).
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by wartijn_ on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:03PM (#18313576)
Sorry, what?

edit: to answer my own question: there are some rumors about candy manufacturers influencing legislators to implement dst after Halloween so more children would partake and they would make more money. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Texas in particular and might not be true at all. But please correct me if I'm wrong.

https://www.romper.com/p/the-crazy-weird-reason-daylight-sav...

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by rossdavidh on Saturday October 27, 2018 @03:18PM (#18317262)
No this was like almost 10 years ago. As I recall, it lasted for only one year: http://www.kltv.com/story/11417485/halloween-and-daylight-sa...
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by umanwizard on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:02PM (#18313333)
Why not? Where does it say that?
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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by InclinedPlane on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:23PM (#18313404)
See edit.
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