Dec. 1, 2006
6:49 a.m.
Andy McDonald <andy_tz@stemhaus.com> writes:
Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S ...
Zone America/Inuvik -8:54:52 - LMT 1884 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00
In situations like these, zic assumes that standard time is in effect before the first Rule line takes affect, so it uses the first standard-time rule letter it sees. At least, that's my understanding -- I haven't looked at the code recently.