>From a86ca0f413d8b32ddcb85582a7fb65fd5c71e94c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:42:40 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Improve comments for Halifax and Glace Bay (Thanks to Brian Inglis.) * NEWS, northamerica (Halifax): Document this. * zone.tab, zone1970.tab: Improve comments for America/Halifax and America/Glace_Bay. --- NEWS | 3 +++ northamerica | 13 +++++++++++-- zone.tab | 4 ++-- zone1970.tab | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9eff28c..09eb7f1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Changes affecting installed data files + Comments for America/Halifax and America/Glace_Bay have been improved. + (Thanks to Brian Inglis.) + Data entries have been simplified for Atlantic/Canary, Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Sofia, and Europe/Tallinn. This yields slightly smaller installed data files for Europe/Simferopol and Europe/Tallinn. diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 88423e6..873a0f7 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -1235,10 +1235,19 @@ Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay # west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): +# From the historical weather station records available at: +# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada +# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was +# likely to be the same across the island.... +# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would +# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. + +# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like # Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; -# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of. +# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of +# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). # Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town # in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume # this is a typo. diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab index f418e7f..381f245 100644 --- a/zone.tab +++ b/zone.tab @@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ BW -2439+02555 Africa/Gaborone BY +5354+02734 Europe/Minsk BZ +1730-08812 America/Belize CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador -CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI -CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971 +CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI +CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton) CA +4606-06447 America/Moncton Atlantic Time - New Brunswick CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations CA +5125-05707 America/Blanc-Sablon Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab index 2689c00..c9d31d9 100644 --- a/zone1970.tab +++ b/zone1970.tab @@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ BT +2728+08939 Asia/Thimphu BY +5354+02734 Europe/Minsk BZ +1730-08812 America/Belize CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador -CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI -CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971 +CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI +CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton) CA +4606-06447 America/Moncton Atlantic Time - New Brunswick CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations CA +5125-05707 America/Blanc-Sablon Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore -- 2.1.4