[tz] Metlakatla

[TechOps]

Resurrecting this thread because Metlakatla has voted to reverse their
prior decision. The community will be changing back on the 20th of this
month and are hopeful the tz db can be updated for them. -Ryan

Article:
https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-allow-liquor-sales/

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:46 PM Aaron Brown <asb110273 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a great article. But there appears to be a mistake. It says about
> Little Diomede, "the sun did not reach its zenith until 3:20 p.m. during
> the winter and 4:20 p.m. during the summer." I believe this should be 2:20
> pm and 3:20 pm as Little Diomede, at around 170 is the equivalent of about
> 2.3 time zones west of the 135 deg meridian.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:13 AM D Nathan Cookson <dorzak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other question is does the local government have the authority or is
>> this another situation like Little Diomede, Alaska.
>>
>> There are many cultural and political issues  around time zones in
>> Alaska. I believe to be legally recognized the DoT has to sign off on it.
>>
>>
>> https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 12, 2018, at 5:00 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>>
>> Given that it’s in the past, do we really want to wait till people start
>> complaining?
>>
>>
>> That's what we've done in the past, as I recall, for low-population
>> locations. It's the usual cost-benefit tradeoff.
>>
>>
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