Sorry I missed the announcement back in February. Here is a Wikipedia link for the affected region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rockies_Regional_Municipality -The area has a population of 5290 and an area of 85014 square km. -The post 1970 time zone history will no longer match America/Vancouver or America/Dawson_Creek. The change could be treated as a minor boundary tweak, but given the size I would assume a new zone entry is required. Let's see what others have to say. -chris From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Matt Johnson Sent: September 21, 2015 05:58 PM To: tz@iana.org; thorsen@timeanddate.com Subject: Re: [tz] Fort Nelson, Canada Also on this municipality's official site: http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-ti... ________________________________ From: mj1856@hotmail.com<mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com> To: tz@iana.org<mailto:tz@iana.org>; thorsen@timeanddate.com<mailto:thorsen@timeanddate.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:50:50 -0700 Subject: [tz] Fort Nelson, Canada According to http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fort-nelson-canada-time-zone.html Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with America/Dawson_Creek. Does this type of split require a new zone entry? America/Fort_Nelson ?? Thanks, Matt

Tim Parenti wrote:

See attached proposed patch to implement a new zone for Fort Nelson.

Thanks, I installed that into the experimental version on github, with some minor tweaking of NEWS and one addition: for lack of better info, I followed Shanks's assertion that Fort Nelson (unlike Vancouver) did not observe DST in 1946. Revised patch attached.