- Quickdraw McLaw
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Nascar weekend in Vegas is over (did any of you go?) and now it’s time to get back to the grind. Here are a few stories for you including some future potential work the Nevada legislature is creating just for you!
- Attorney Jeffrey Barr wants to revive a class-action lawsuit against the now defunct Las Vegas Constable’s Office. [RJ]
- There is a legitimate chance of the Nevada legislature passing a law permitting concealed carry on college campuses. [KNPR]
- They’re also looking at a bill requiring law enforcement officers to wear body cameras. [8NewsNow]
- How about putting lawyer advertisements on the Strip pedestrian bridges? [RJ]
- And for those of you still dragging this morning from the time change, the legislature is looking at staying in Pacific Daylight Time all year round! [RJ]
Any family law conference gossip?
Jeff Barr needs to get some other clients. This suit is looking like a publicity stunt. His clients 15 minutes of fame are over.
We ARE on PDT all year round, meaning we change the clocks twice a year with California. They want to put us on either PST (with AK in the summer and with CA in the winter) or MST (with CA in the summer and with UT in the winter). If they draft this bill poorly, which it looks like they might be doing, it could really screw things up. Pacific Standard Time is one hour BEHIND California in the summer, because CA is on Pacific Daylight Time (puts the clocks an hour ahead in the summer). If they put us on PST, we will actually be an hour BEHIND California in the summer. Talk about icing on the clown cake for this legislative session. If they want to do away with DST in a sensible way, they need to put us on MST (like Arizona), not PST.
You are confused, go back to bed. If you read AJR4, it proposes allowing states to establish daylight savings time as their standard time. Nevada is on Pacific Standard time in the winter (Nov-Mar) and on Pacific Daylight Time from March-November. We are currently on PDT. Arizona is permanently on Mountain Standard Time (that means in the winter they're an hour ahead of us and last weekend when we sprung forward, we caught up to them. In other words MST=PDT. With regard to California, from March to November we would be on the same time, but in winter, we would be an hour ahead of California since we would still be on PDT and they would be on PST.
I will provide sexual favors to any person who gets this bill passed. I hate Daylight Saving with a passion.
No, you are confused. Standard time doesn't change. Daylight time changes. Daylight time is the same as the respective standard time in the winter but one hour ahead of the respective standard time in the summer. MST does not equal PDT, although the two are the same during the summer. Nevada is on PST in the winter and MST in the summer, which is a roundabout way of saying it is on PDT all the time.
Negative, 11:20. Neither time changes. Pacific Daylight Time is defined at 7 hours behind UTC, same as Mountain Standard Time. Pacific Standard Time is defined as 8 hours behind UTC. What changes is the time zone used by Nevada during a particular period. In "winter" we use PST. In "summer" we use PDT.
Anyway you slice it, California tourists and visitors will hate Nevada having different time than they do. And we depend on them for tourist dollars and above all . . .legal precedents!
I'm all for any proposal that does away with changing the clocks twice a year.
11:31, that's not how it works. Daylight time changes, but standard doesn't. There would be no point in calling it "daylight" time if it worked your way. You would just say you switched from pacific time to mountain time. The whole point of distinguishing between "daylight" and "standard" time is to denote that the time changes in the former case. Because we have the distinction between daylight and standard time, you can just say "pacific daylight time" and convey the fact that the state is on pacific (standard) time in the winter but mountain (standard) time in the summer. No matter how you define it, Nevada is on pacific time in the winter and mountain time in the summer. The easiest way to convey that is just to say that we are always on "pacific daylight time."
1:18.
Wow. You are so wrong. And the Time Services Department of the US Naval Observatory disagrees with you.
To obtain U.S. civil time from UTC, use the following table.
To obtain
. . .
Mountain daylight time (MDT) subtract 6 hours from UTC
Mountain standard time (MST) subtract 7 hours from UTC
Pacific daylight time (PDT) subtract 7 hours from UTC
Pacific standard time (PST) subtract 8 hours from UTC
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones.php
PDT, PST, MST, DST OR UTC if we are in AK, CA, UT or read AJR4, you all have STD.
I just got PTSD from reading these posts. 🙁
2:16, you are so wrong, I see your "wow," and I raise you an OMG, an eye roll, and a hair flip. The only time zones recognized by the US are the ones in 15 USC 260 et seq., which are the standard zones. The DST provision, 15 USC 260a, doesn't create any new time zones called "daylight time," it just notes that the time in the standard zones shift between certain dates.
Speaking of time, you guys obviously have way too much of it on your hands.
This string is why I'm afraid it will never happen. Legislators will get confused, frustrated, and decide we shouldn't do it.
John Oliver does a nice piece of the bullshit that is DST: http://t.co/n3mvIlnpp7
Excellent 3 min. video.
Michele Fiore for President!! We wuv u!
Fiore makes me proud to be a Nevadan. xoxo
Top 10 Reasons Assembly District 4 put Michelle Fiore into a statewide office:
10. Nevada consistently has a low general voter turnout which gives incrementally increased voting power to the types of extremists who might vote for someone like Fiore.
9. The quality of our public education system is low compared with other parts of the country. Fiore appeals to the uneducated
8. The number of years an average Nevadan spends pursuing education is low when compared to other parts of the country. Again . . .
7. Nevada has a tendency to attract fringe wingnut types.
6. FOX News
5. Must be a good choice, look at all those signs
4. Really looked smart and well-adjusted during the Cliven Bundy fiasco
3. Poor girl, the IRS made her a victim
2. She knows more about cancer than a doctor: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626567/nevada-assemblywoman-cancer-fungus/
1. I mean, c'mon, look at those freakishly huge hooters
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, 3:15 PM. And her chest has nothing to do with her fine qualities as a legislator.
Fine qualities as a legislator… I needed a good laugh today.
I have tried to maintain good humor about Fiore, but perpetuating a myth that a salt solution or baking soda can cure cancer is downright criminal.
I tried to track down her level of higher education. Non-existent. Scary.
I tried to track down her level of intelligence. Non-existent. Scary. FTFY
How does Michelle Fiore find all the time to post about herself here when she is so busy at the legislature?
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!
UNLV Law is the 67th most AMAZING, GREATEST, ELITE law school in America!!!!
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings/page+3
I bet those empire builders in University/Boyd administration are bursting with pride, feeling completely vindicated. Just don't pull back the curtain to look at UNLV's employment score, it's not pretty!