March 2020 - tz - lists.iana.org

Yukon to move to year-round PDT
by Tim Parenti March 10, 2020

March 10, 2020

The government of Yukon announced today the cessation of seasonal time changes. "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory will remain on 'Pacific Daylight Saving Time'. ... [The government] found 93 per cent of respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that group, 70 per cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.54863… Government press release: https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change Interestingly, in the report <https://yukon.ca/sites/yukon.ca/files/engage/engage-eco-seasonal-time-chang…> released with today's action, 57% of respondents said that "maintain[ing] time relationships with other jurisdictions" was either very or somewhat important, while only 26% said it was not very or not at all important. Perhaps this might be better treated as "MST", like Arizona, as that is more similar to Saskatchewan's existing use of CST. However, since the press release expresses a preference for "PDT", attached is a proposed patch which calls it that, implemented as UTC-08 +1 hour DST year-round. Since this change doesn't affect timestamps until 2020-11-01, we have a bit of time to determine the preferred representation and/or wait for the relevant legal wording before this necessitates a new release. -- Tim Parenti

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Update Ukrainian Timezones Names
by bebyx March 10, 2020

March 10, 2020

Hi, maintainers of tz, This file was requested by [eggert](https://github.com/eggert/tz/pull/26#issuecomment-595995177). I hope you apply this patch, cause those fantasy names you have on the project now are a real confusion for Ukrainians who are probably 99% of users of Ukrainian timezones. My initial comment: Default timezone names for Ukraine, e.g. Europe/Kiev, are more understandable and correct than ridiculous fantasy style, e.g. Ruthenia. Previous names cause confusion, misunderstanding and are considered inappropriate. Proofs: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198822, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47468, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244644. Thanks!

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Manitoba Canada not observing DST
by Marketa Calabkova March 5, 2020

March 5, 2020

There was a new law that was passed this year in Canada that Manitoba will not observe DST change, instead remaining in Central Standard Time. Reference link : https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/41-4/b205e.php Our customer is requesting the fix before the March 8th when DST begins. The bug has been reported today. Could you please fix it or point me to the existing fix? Thanks a lot! Cheers, Marketa

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