Observing my cellphone switch towers

Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by montroser on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:48AM (#27173679)

Yes, a similar thing used to happen to me just at this one particular bar in Chelsea. But it wasn't off by 19 years, it was off by just an hour, which is worse in a way. That made for some confusing drunken time warps until I figured out the pattern...

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Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by scrozier on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:25AM (#27173918)

I was in a rental vacation house at the southeastern end of Lake Michigan three years ago. It was a pretty big house, and as you walked from one end to the other, the time zone would change. Really messed with me until I figured that out.

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Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by lizknope on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:08PM (#27177496)

Antelope Canyon is a popular tourist attraction in Arizona.

During the summer Utah is on daylight savings time, Arizona does NOT observe daylight savings time but the Navajo Nation within Arizona DOES observe daylight savings time.

Antelope Canyon is on Navajo Nation land and requires a tour guide from a licensed tour guide company. The canyon and tour guides DO observe daylight savings time.

The canyon is only about 5 miles from the Utah border and many people are traveling from Utah. Because of all the competing cell phone towers you end up with people that show up at the wrong time.

I purposely brought an old school watch for my trip.

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Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by m463 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:08PM (#27178043)

I recall in Nevada (Pacific time), there's one city right near the utah border that observes mountain time. I don't think my electronics figured it out.

edit: it is West Wendover NV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wendover,_Nevada

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Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by lizknope on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:12PM (#27178084)

I've been there. It's a bunch of casinos literally a foot over the state border. It's less than 2 hours west of Salt Lake City. Wendover is a tiny town in Utah but West Wendover in Nevada is completely different just a foot over the border.

They probably want to stay on Mountain time because 99% of their visitors/customers are from Salt Lake City on mountain time and their TV stations are also probably from Salt Lake City

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Re:Observing my cellphone switch towers by Breza on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:53PM (#27242065)

I once ran an A/B time-of-send test for our readers where I analyzed the results by local time. Timezones and DST made it a painful experience.

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