[michaelt]

> you'd obviously pick standard time and not randomly offset everything by an hour

Isn't Pacific Daylight Time = Mountain Standard Time?

You can offset everything by an hour and still have 'standard' in the name of the timezone.

[globular-toast]

Yeah, you could just start counting from two and call it the standard counting system, but why would you? The current system works fine and there's no need to change it.