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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I thought they had been converted. But perhaps that got overlooked due to more pressing matters during the beta.
In any case, the starting times, outside of the most recent years, are largely fictional anyway since I don't know of any database that records the actual game starting times. The first instance, as far as I'm aware, of a newspaper carrying the starting time for all scheduled MLB games, as opposed to just the city's own team, was the Chicago Tribune in 1964. The New York Times didn't start listing the starting time for all MLB games until the latter part of the 1970s, if I recall correctly.
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Thanks LGO.
I was looking through the "schedules" folder at the major_league schedule files - there are at least two for every year - one with "ap" at the end of the filename and one without. I can only assume the "ap" stands for "as played" and moves rainouts, etc. to their makeup dates, while the other schedule file contains the original season schedule. All the "non-ap" schedule files I checked (prior to the 2012 schedule file) still had "2205" game times for west coast games.
I checked a few different "ap" schedules, and all of their game times appear to be 14:05 or 19:35, so I guess if you play historical and don't want to see your west coast games starting three hours late, you could use the "ap" schedule files. All games are going to start at either 2:05 PM local or 7:35 PM local, which obviously isn't historically accurate, but like you said - game start time data doesn't seem to be tracked. Even baseball-reference didn't list the game start times as far as I could tell, just the time of game.