I will say, however, that the ballot measure was confused by the arguments, with both sides arguing against time changes.

>Proposition 12 (1949), a ballot initiative that established DST in California, needed to be repealed. In California, a ballot initiative cannot be repealed without the consent of voters. Therefore, the state legislature could not take action to change time policy unless voters approved Proposition 7. This applied to both permanent daylight savings time and permanent standard time.[1]

As I understand, Prop 7 was needed to undo Prop 12, which then gave the CA state legislature the power to go with DST all year around, which they have indicated they want to since 2016:

>In 2016, the California State Legislature asked the President and Congress to pass an act that would allow California to adopt year-round DST.[2]

It seems that it's the federal government preventing the states from doing what they want to do, hence my quip about states' rights.

Which I also like. We can call it the Western time zone.

I would prefer standard time, but I'll accept any time as long as days are always 86400 seconds (+/- 1 second). I'm willing to have a separate discussion about leap seconds, but that seems like it's being determined by concensus among national standards bodies, not democratic action, so I have less influence.

Here we have a month where daylight isn't a whole lot better than 8:00-5:00, so it's always amusing to hear people say that they like it to be daylight when they wake up (so 1.5 hours less sun here than San Francisco today, which is where the last person I saw with that complaint lives).

The text authorized the State legislature to make the change if Congress passed a law allowing the State to make the change. It passed.