Looks like Nunavut (Territory in northern Canada) has finally decided to follow the rest of Canada and the United States. An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007. See page 18 of February's the Nunavut Gazette: http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf All of the assumptions that were made in the TZ database are now correct; no further changes are required. As per usual, I have updated my Canadian DST web page at http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html P.S. I came accross a little news article from Northern News Services dated November 13/2006. It claims that the community of Resolute (located on Conrnwallis Island in Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of daylight saving. It is not clear whether or not the clocks will change again on March 11 of if they will stay fixed on Eastern Standard Time. Technically this requires a new zone. Ouch. Is it worth it for a population of of 215 people? http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html -chris
"Chris Walton" <Chris.Walton@telus.com> writes:
Looks like Nunavut (Territory in northern Canada) has finally decided to follow the rest of Canada and the United States.
Thanks for the heads-up; I'll add a comment in the next proposed change.
the community of Resolute (located on Conrnwallis Island in Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of daylight saving. It is not clear whether or not the clocks will change again on March 11 of if they will stay fixed on Eastern Standard Time.
From the article it seems that they will use daylight saving, since it says they want to stay in sync with Iqualuit.
Technically this requires a new zone. Ouch. Is it worth it for a population of of 215 people?
I think so, yes; they're a real community and not just a military post. America/Resolute sounds like the logical name, since "Resolute Bay" and "Qausuittuq" are less-often used in English. I'll add something like that in my next proposed patch. <http://www.mb.ec.gc.ca/info/news/cc00s20.en.html> says Resolute was founded on 1947-08-31, so I'll use that as the start date, and it will have the usual "zzz" marking before that. Come to think of it, I should do the same for Pangnirtung (founded 1921), Iqaluit (founded August 1942), Rankin Inlet (founded 1957), Cambridge Bay (founded 1920), Yellowknife (founded 1935?), and Inuvik (founded 1953). If anyone has more-exact dates for founding please let me know. One bit of trivia I just discovered: the White House Oval Office desk that George W. Bush uses is made of timbers from the H.M.S. Resolute, the same Resolute that the town is named after. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk>
Paul Eggert said:
One bit of trivia I just discovered: the White House Oval Office desk that George W. Bush uses is made of timbers from the H.M.S. Resolute, the same Resolute that the town is named after. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk>
Resolute was part of a Royal Navy expedition searching for Franklin. Another RN expedition looking for Franklin was the H.M.S.Investigator, which started its search from Baring Island on the west coast of North America. The crew of the Investigator eventually reached a point on Melville Island which had already been reached from the east, thus proving the existence of the North West Passage. I mention this because one of my relatives - Sergeant John Woon - was on the H.M.S.Investigator. He was later awarded the Polar Medal. See <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/DEVON/2001-05/0990296000>. [The W. in my initials stands for Woon; I was partially named after him.] -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 THUS plc | |
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