“everyone has named their timezones off of their province or territory name.” is a bit concerning. I wonder why the provinces are deciding to name their timezone after their province or territory and what problem that naming convention is intended to solve?
As someone who lives in North America, I don't have all the Canadian provinces timezones memorized (nor the US states). If each province has an independently named timezone, it would effectively mean that I would need to look up the GMT/UTC offset for every province if have a reason to interact with them (or travel there for vacation). Maybe we're moving in a direction where timezone display names will become less important and more people in North America will decide to memorize the GMT/UTC offsets instead so they can calculate the difference between their timezone and the other one? (For context, right now when I ask random people I'm interacting (e.g. my dental hygienist, cashier, etc.) with what the time difference from GMT/UTC is, most people don't know since it's not a part of their daily life. They tend only memorize the time difference between their time and other places that they care about.)
