Comment by acdha
4 days ago
There’s definitely inertia but I think it’s also that the US/ names match official usage: nobody, not even residents, says the time zone is New York because the official name is Eastern time.
4 days ago
There’s definitely inertia but I think it’s also that the US/ names match official usage: nobody, not even residents, says the time zone is New York because the official name is Eastern time.
Exactly this. I still don't know if there's a technical difference between America/New_York, America/Detroit, or America/Indianapolis.
America/Detroit is different from America/New_York on times before 1915 (when Detroit switched from Central to Eastern Time).