From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 11:58:53 EST Subject: Re: East-Saskatchewan -> Saskatchewan To: ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov, eggert@twinsun.com Cc: jones@skorpio.usask.ca (W. Jones), peachey@pixar.com
... Anyway, I agree with Darwyn that the situation since around the Unix epoch is CST year round for the whole province, not just some flakes in the eastern corner.
Actually, I think the province *is* split, but it's not an eastern corner vs. everybody else. I grew up in Saskatoon, which is roughly central (and one of the two major cities), and as a kid (1960s) I never knew DST *existed*. (DST still strikes me as strange and stupid, actually.) Saskatoon, and at least the immediate vicinity, has been on CST year round for a long time.
On the other hand, other areas of the province haven't been... I first became aware of DST when visiting relatives in Fort Qu'Appelle, a small town south and east of Saskatoon. That was mid-late 1960s. I haven't been back there for a long time and don't know the current situation.
Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry