I am not sure if this helps the decision making process but here are the population numbers according to the 2001 Canadian census: Coral Harbour: 712 Atikokan: 3632 These numbers don't include the black flies or mosquitoes! The existing America/Coral_Harbour time zone encompasses all of Southampton Island (41214 square km) plus some small adjacent islands. Coral Harbour is the only settlement on Southampton Island; the adjacent islands are (to the best of my knowledge) uninhabited. The proposed America/Atikokan time zone would encompass the township of Atikokan (317 square km) and Quetico Provincial Park (4758 square km). I confirmed with Robin Reilly from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources that the Quetico park staff use "Atikokan time" for official time keeping year-round; the reason being that the main park office is located in Atikokan. -chris -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: July 24, 2006 4:02 PM To: Chris Walton Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: atikokan daylight saving (or lack of it) "Chris Walton" <Chris.Walton@telus.com> writes:

Should we: 1) update the entry for America/Coral_Harbour but not add a zone called America/Atikokan Or 2) add a new zone for America/Atikoan and leave America/Coral_Harbour alone Or 3) delete America/Coral_Harbour, add America/Atikokan, and update the "zonetab" + "backward" files.

I'm leaning toward #3. I don't recall seeing any other comments.