* northamerica (America/Metlakatla): Use the more-common "PST" rather than our invented "MeST" for the abbreviation. Our source called it "Pacific Time", as did a contemporaneous news report, and I couldn't find contemporaneous use of "MeST" or of "Metlakatla Time". Cite the news report in the commentary, and quote some Juneau graffiti. * zone.tab (America/Resolute): Call it Central Time, not Central Standard Time, since it observes DST now. (America/Metlakatla): Call it Pacific Standard Time, not Metlakatla Time. Mention that it's in Alaska. * NEWS: Document the above. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ northamerica | 17 +++++++++++------ zone.tab | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f77fe86..ffcbd92 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Prefix "W" to (western) Samoa time when its standard-time offset disagrees with that of American Samoa. + America/Metlakatla now uses PST, not MeST, to abbreviate its time zone. + Time zone abbreviations have been updated for Japan's two time zones used 1896-1937. JWST now stands for Western Standard Time, and JCST for Central Standard Time (formerly this was CJT). @@ -173,6 +175,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes There is new commentary about time in Poland in 1919. + Commentary about time in Metlakatla, AK and Resolute, NU has been + improved, with a new source for the former. + In zone.tab, Pacific/Easter no longer mentions Salas y Gómez, as it is uninhabited. diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index c461ef4..1b6bb23 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -421,13 +421,18 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there # were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps # it's best to simply use the official transition. -# -# From Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31): -# The author lives in Alaska and many of the references listed are only -# available to Alaskan residents. +# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): +# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and +# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: +# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." +# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. +# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html # -# http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&p... +# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: +# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. +# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). +# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keep... # From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): # Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: @@ -489,7 +494,7 @@ Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 - PST 1969 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 - -8:00 - MeST + -8:00 - PST Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -9:00 - YST 1942 diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab index e29778c..e415ca6 100644 --- a/zone.tab +++ b/zone.tab @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ CA +4901-08816 America/Nipigon Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - places that did CA +4823-08915 America/Thunder_Bay Eastern Time - Thunder Bay, Ontario CA +6344-06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern Time - east Nunavut - most locations CA +6608-06544 America/Pangnirtung Eastern Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut -CA +744144-0944945 America/Resolute Central Standard Time - Resolute, Nunavut +CA +744144-0944945 America/Resolute Central Time - Resolute, Nunavut CA +484531-0913718 America/Atikokan Eastern Standard Time - Atikokan, Ontario and Southampton I, Nunavut CA +624900-0920459 America/Rankin_Inlet Central Time - central Nunavut CA +4953-09709 America/Winnipeg Central Time - Manitoba & west Ontario @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ US +571035-1351807 America/Sitka Alaska Time - southeast Alaska panhandle US +593249-1394338 America/Yakutat Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle neck US +643004-1652423 America/Nome Alaska Time - west Alaska US +515248-1763929 America/Adak Aleutian Islands -US +550737-1313435 America/Metlakatla Metlakatla Time - Annette Island +US +550737-1313435 America/Metlakatla Pacific Standard Time - Annette Island, Alaska US +211825-1575130 Pacific/Honolulu Hawaii UY -3453-05611 America/Montevideo UZ +3940+06648 Asia/Samarkand west Uzbekistan -- 1.9.1