Please explain to me why eliminating APs make business sense for Disney? And the business case for Floridians to have a discounted AP?

[Ms Bibbidi]

True, but for us, it's really not worth it to drive 7 hours for a

My bad in 2023 we will stay on daylight savings time and no longer need to change our clocks. I forgot that they modified the bill to just do daylight savings. The original plan, and what I thought was them trying to make Florida just 1 time zone, they were actually planning on moving the EST part of FL to Atlantic time zone and the CST part of FL to EST. So stupid! Below is part of that bills verbiage from back in 2018.
"So the change Florida lawmakers desire is technically a change of time zone. The majority of Florida would move from Eastern time to Atlantic time: the zone that's home to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Canadian Maritime provinces. The western part of the state's panhandle is on Central time; residents there would shift to Eastern time." So I would still lose an hour driving to WDW, even is they did change it

That's interesting. I was clearly wrong in my understanding of it. They are going to make daylight savings permanent and get rid of standard time. I also had no info on the Florida - Atlantic time zone issue. I was on the west coast when this was in the news. Guess I better sit up and pay attention. Thanks for the info.

 

[kilik64]

True, but for us, it's really not worth it to drive 7 hours for a

My bad in 2023 we will stay on daylight savings time and no longer need to change our clocks. I forgot that they modified the bill to just do daylight savings. The original plan, and what I thought was them trying to make Florida just 1 time zone, they were actually planning on moving the EST part of FL to Atlantic time zone and the CST part of FL to EST. So stupid! Below is part of that bills verbiage from back in 2018.
"So the change Florida lawmakers desire is technically a change of time zone. The majority of Florida would move from Eastern time to Atlantic time: the zone that's home to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Canadian Maritime provinces. The western part of the state's panhandle is on Central time; residents there would shift to Eastern time." So I would still lose an hour driving to WDW, even is they did change it

Thats odd, my understanding of the whole daylight vs standard debate is that states want to stay on daylight permanently (which is stupid based on light and hours, means in the winter it will yes stay light later, but you'll also not have light until an hour later too, will screw with people worse than the time change as far as circadian rhythm goes) and THAT requires federal act vs the state being able to just do it.

A state CAN just opt to NOT do daylight though, AZ does this. They just stay on standard time the whole year. Everyone wanting permanent daylight time is waiting for congress to do it.

So the moving of time zones and then opting out of daylight seems to be FL workaround waiting on the federal act to happen. Interesting.

 

[Bibbidi_Boo]

Thats odd, my understanding of the whole daylight vs standard debate is that states want to stay on daylight permanently (which is stupid based on light and hours, means in the winter it will yes stay light later, but you'll also not have light until an hour later too, will screw with people worse than the time change as far as circadian rhythm goes) and THAT requires federal act vs the state being able to just do it.

A state CAN just opt to NOT do daylight though, AZ does this. They just stay on standard time the whole year. Everyone wanting permanent daylight time is waiting for congress to do it.

So the moving of time zones and then opting out of daylight seems to be FL workaround waiting on the federal act to happen. Interesting.

I would prefer for standard time year round, eliminate daylight savings. AZ and Hawaii are smart to me.

 

[DonMacGregor]

That's interesting. I was clearly wrong in my understanding of it. They are going to make daylight savings permanent and get rid of standard time. I also had no info on the Florida - Atlantic time zone issue. I was on the west coast when this was in the news. Guess I better sit up and pay attention. Thanks for the info.

Plus, if FL moves to the Atlantic Time Zone, then a 10-minute drive west out of Pensacola into neighboring Alabama will mean a two hour time difference...

 

[Maistre Gracey]

I cannot find any reliable info in the timezone changes. Everything I read has a different spin to it.

 

[Brian Noble]

At the Federal level, the Senate has passed a bill moving to DST year round. The House has not voted on it. Given that we are right up against the midterms, I suspect it will die on the vine during this legislative session.

As for Florida, who the heck knows what they'll do, because Florida.

 

[Ms Bibbidi]

At the Federal level, the Senate has passed a bill moving to DST year round. The House has not voted on it. Given that we are right up against the midterms, I suspect it will die on the vine during this legislative session.

As for Florida, who the heck knows what they'll do, because Florida.

So probably not going to happen, then?
(See, I am sitting up and paying attention. )

 

[DizneyFamof4]

Plus, if FL moves to the Atlantic Time Zone, then a 10-minute drive west out of Pensacola into neighboring Alabama will mean a two hour time difference...

Not all of Florida would have gone to Atlantic time, us in the Central time zone would have gone to Eastern. I believe this is why they broke off the Daylight saving time piece from the original bill and just pushed for that.

So probably not going to happen, then?
(See, I am sitting up and paying attention. )

No one knows for sure, but our newspaper had a write up about a couple of weeks ago and seemed pretty sure that it is still supposed to happen by November 2023.

I will say that being in Florida in the Central Time zone I definitely want to keep DST, because it would be dumb to stay at CST. Nothing more depressing than getting off work and it's dark at 5.