>From 10f89078f93315b95388f562447f1316fbdd0c58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 11:52:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add comment about western Ontario zone extents * northamerica: Add note about geographical extents of western Ontario zones (thanks to Jeffery Nichols). --- northamerica | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 5ad2ac2..eba1819 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -1622,6 +1622,15 @@ Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. # Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. +# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06): +# According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, +# covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. +# The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, +# like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in +# America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the +# zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova +# Scotia).... + # From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): # [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST # effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that -- 2.24.1