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  92 # of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
  93 # Not everyone is happy with the results:
  94 #
  95 #       I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
  96 #       agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
  97 #       daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
  98 #       I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
  99 #       valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.  As an admirer
 100 #       of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
 101 #       reduce my time for enjoying it.  At the back of the Daylight Saving
 102 #       scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
 103 #       to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
 104 #       them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
 105 #
 106 #        -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
 107 #          Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
 108 #
 109 # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
 110 # Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
 111 # (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).
 112 # http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html
 113 #
 114 # Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
 115 # However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
 116 # was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
 117 # time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
 118 
 119 # From Paul Eggert (2019-06-04):
 120 # Here is the legal basis for the US federal rules.
 121 # * Public Law 65-106 (1918-03-19) implemented standard and daylight saving
 122 #   time for the first time across the US, springing forward on March's last
 123 #   Sunday and falling back on October's last Sunday.
 124 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch24.pdf
 125 # * Public Law 66-40 (1919-08-20) repealed DST on October 1919's last Sunday.
 126 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/66th-congress/session-1/c66s1ch51.pdf
 127 # * Public Law 77-403 (1942-01-20) started wartime DST on 1942-02-09.
 128 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-2/c77s2ch7.pdf
 129 # * Public Law 79-187 (1945-09-25) ended wartime DST on 1945-09-30.
 130 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/79th-congress/session-1/c79s1ch388.pdf
 131 # * Public Law 89-387 (1966-04-13) reinstituted a national standard for DST,
 132 #   from April's last Sunday to October's last Sunday, effective 1967.


1476                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
1477                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    2011 Nov
1478                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT
1479 
1480 # most of east Labrador
1481 
1482 # The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
1483 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1484 Zone America/Goose_Bay  -4:01:40 -      LMT     1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1485                         -3:30:52 -      NST     1918
1486                         -3:30:52 Canada N%sT    1919
1487                         -3:30:52 -      NST     1935 Mar 30
1488                         -3:30   -       NST     1936
1489                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1942 May 11
1490                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
1491                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1966 Mar 15  2:00
1492                         -4:00   StJohns A%sT    2011 Nov
1493                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT
1494 
1495 
1496 # west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I

1497 
1498 # From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
1499 # From the historical weather station records available at:
1500 # https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
1501 # Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
1502 # likely to be the same across the island....
1503 # Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
1504 # have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
1505 
1506 # From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
1507 # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1508 # Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1509 # the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
1510 # (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
1511 # Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1512 # in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1513 # this is a typo.
1514 







1515 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1516 Rule    Halifax 1916    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    1:00    D
1517 Rule    Halifax 1916    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    0       S
1518 Rule    Halifax 1920    only    -       May      9      0:00    1:00    D
1519 Rule    Halifax 1920    only    -       Aug     29      0:00    0       S
1520 Rule    Halifax 1921    only    -       May      6      0:00    1:00    D
1521 Rule    Halifax 1921    1922    -       Sep      5      0:00    0       S
1522 Rule    Halifax 1922    only    -       Apr     30      0:00    1:00    D
1523 Rule    Halifax 1923    1925    -       May     Sun>=1       0:00    1:00    D
1524 Rule    Halifax 1923    only    -       Sep      4      0:00    0       S
1525 Rule    Halifax 1924    only    -       Sep     15      0:00    0       S
1526 Rule    Halifax 1925    only    -       Sep     28      0:00    0       S
1527 Rule    Halifax 1926    only    -       May     16      0:00    1:00    D
1528 Rule    Halifax 1926    only    -       Sep     13      0:00    0       S
1529 Rule    Halifax 1927    only    -       May      1      0:00    1:00    D
1530 Rule    Halifax 1927    only    -       Sep     26      0:00    0       S
1531 Rule    Halifax 1928    1931    -       May     Sun>=8       0:00    1:00    D
1532 Rule    Halifax 1928    only    -       Sep      9      0:00    0       S
1533 Rule    Halifax 1929    only    -       Sep      3      0:00    0       S
1534 Rule    Halifax 1930    only    -       Sep     15      0:00    0       S


1588 Rule    Moncton 1940    only    -       May     19      1:00    1:00    D
1589 Rule    Moncton 1941    only    -       May      4      1:00    1:00    D
1590 Rule    Moncton 1946    1972    -       Apr     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
1591 Rule    Moncton 1946    1956    -       Sep     lastSun 2:00    0       S
1592 Rule    Moncton 1957    1972    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
1593 Rule    Moncton 1993    2006    -       Apr     Sun>=1       0:01    1:00    D
1594 Rule    Moncton 1993    2006    -       Oct     lastSun 0:01    0       S
1595 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1596 Zone America/Moncton    -4:19:08 -      LMT     1883 Dec  9
1597                         -5:00   -       EST     1902 Jun 15
1598                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1933
1599                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    1942
1600                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1946
1601                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    1973
1602                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1993
1603                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    2007
1604                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT
1605 
1606 # Quebec
1607 
1608 # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24):
1609 # See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal.

1610 #
1611 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1612 # meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1613 # Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1614 # The Quebec department of justice writes in
1615 # "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord"
1616 # http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm
1617 # that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
1618 # observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
1619 # https://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en
1620 # says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007.
1621 # For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1622 # Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1623 
1624 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1625 Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -    LMT     1884
1626                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1970
1627                         -4:00   -       AST
1628 
1629 # Ontario
1630 
1631 # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1632 # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1633 # Toronto.
1634 # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1635 # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1636 # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1637 # Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1638 









1639 # From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1640 # [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1641 # effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1642 # Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1643 # have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1644 # 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1645 # hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1646 # only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1647 # presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1648 # earlier in June).
1649 #
1650 # Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1651 #
1652 # From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08):
1653 # For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving
1654 # time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08.
1655 # https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html
1656 
1657 # From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1658 # Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star


2425 # I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using
2426 # Eastern Standard Time.
2427 #
2428 # Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the
2429 # 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way
2430 # of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in
2431 # the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs"
2432 #
2433 # This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008.
2434 #
2435 # I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz
2436 # responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You
2437 # may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a
2438 # search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site"
2439 #
2440 # If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would
2441 # never have contacted her.  I now believe that all the information I
2442 # obtained in November 2008 should be ignored...
2443 # I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008.
2444 












2445 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
2446 Rule    NT_YK   1918    only    -       Apr     14      2:00    1:00    D
2447 Rule    NT_YK   1918    only    -       Oct     27      2:00    0       S
2448 Rule    NT_YK   1919    only    -       May     25      2:00    1:00    D
2449 Rule    NT_YK   1919    only    -       Nov      1      0:00    0       S
2450 Rule    NT_YK   1942    only    -       Feb      9      2:00    1:00    W # War
2451 Rule    NT_YK   1945    only    -       Aug     14      23:00u  1:00    P # Peace
2452 Rule    NT_YK   1945    only    -       Sep     30      2:00    0       S
2453 Rule    NT_YK   1965    only    -       Apr     lastSun 0:00    2:00    DD
2454 Rule    NT_YK   1965    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
2455 Rule    NT_YK   1980    1986    -       Apr     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
2456 Rule    NT_YK   1980    2006    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
2457 Rule    NT_YK   1987    2006    -       Apr     Sun>=1       2:00    1:00    D
2458 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
2459 # aka Panniqtuuq
2460 Zone America/Pangnirtung 0      -       -00     1921 # trading post est.
2461                         -4:00   NT_YK   A%sT    1995 Apr Sun>=1  2:00
2462                         -5:00   Canada  E%sT    1999 Oct 31  2:00
2463                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2464                         -5:00   Canada  E%sT


2479                         -6:00   NT_YK   C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2480                         -5:00   -       EST     2001 Apr  1  3:00
2481                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT
2482 # aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
2483 Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0    -       -00     1920 # trading post est.?
2484                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1999 Oct 31  2:00
2485                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2486                         -5:00   -       EST     2000 Nov  5  0:00
2487                         -6:00   -       CST     2001 Apr  1  3:00
2488                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2489 Zone America/Yellowknife 0      -       -00     1935 # Yellowknife founded?
2490                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1980
2491                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2492 Zone America/Inuvik     0       -       -00     1953 # Inuvik founded
2493                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1979 Apr lastSun  2:00
2494                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1980
2495                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2496 Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 -      LMT     1900 Aug 20
2497                         -9:00   NT_YK   Y%sT    1967 May 28  0:00
2498                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1980
2499                         -8:00   Canada  P%sT

2500 Zone America/Dawson     -9:17:40 -      LMT     1900 Aug 20
2501                         -9:00   NT_YK   Y%sT    1973 Oct 28  0:00
2502                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1980
2503                         -8:00   Canada  P%sT

2504 
2505 
2506 ###############################################################################
2507 
2508 # Mexico
2509 
2510 # From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07):
2511 # The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
2512 # Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
2513 # history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
2514 # http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm
2515 #
2516 # Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
2517 # (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
2518 # S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
2519 # S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
2520 # S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
2521 # S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
2522 
2523 # From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):




  92 # of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
  93 # Not everyone is happy with the results:
  94 #
  95 #       I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
  96 #       agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
  97 #       daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
  98 #       I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
  99 #       valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.  As an admirer
 100 #       of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
 101 #       reduce my time for enjoying it.  At the back of the Daylight Saving
 102 #       scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
 103 #       to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
 104 #       them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
 105 #
 106 #        -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
 107 #          Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
 108 #
 109 # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
 110 # Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
 111 # (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).
 112 # https://web.archive.org/web/20160517155308/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html
 113 #
 114 # Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
 115 # However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
 116 # was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
 117 # time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
 118 
 119 # From Paul Eggert (2019-06-04):
 120 # Here is the legal basis for the US federal rules.
 121 # * Public Law 65-106 (1918-03-19) implemented standard and daylight saving
 122 #   time for the first time across the US, springing forward on March's last
 123 #   Sunday and falling back on October's last Sunday.
 124 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch24.pdf
 125 # * Public Law 66-40 (1919-08-20) repealed DST on October 1919's last Sunday.
 126 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/66th-congress/session-1/c66s1ch51.pdf
 127 # * Public Law 77-403 (1942-01-20) started wartime DST on 1942-02-09.
 128 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-2/c77s2ch7.pdf
 129 # * Public Law 79-187 (1945-09-25) ended wartime DST on 1945-09-30.
 130 #   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/79th-congress/session-1/c79s1ch388.pdf
 131 # * Public Law 89-387 (1966-04-13) reinstituted a national standard for DST,
 132 #   from April's last Sunday to October's last Sunday, effective 1967.


1476                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
1477                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    2011 Nov
1478                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT
1479 
1480 # most of east Labrador
1481 
1482 # The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
1483 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1484 Zone America/Goose_Bay  -4:01:40 -      LMT     1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1485                         -3:30:52 -      NST     1918
1486                         -3:30:52 Canada N%sT    1919
1487                         -3:30:52 -      NST     1935 Mar 30
1488                         -3:30   -       NST     1936
1489                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1942 May 11
1490                         -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
1491                         -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1966 Mar 15  2:00
1492                         -4:00   StJohns A%sT    2011 Nov
1493                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT
1494 
1495 
1496 # west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I,
1497 # Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Listuguj reserve
1498 
1499 # From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
1500 # From the historical weather station records available at:
1501 # https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
1502 # Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
1503 # likely to be the same across the island....
1504 # Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
1505 # have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
1506 
1507 # From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
1508 # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1509 # Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1510 # the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
1511 # (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
1512 # Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1513 # in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1514 # this is a typo.
1515 
1516 # From Jeffery Nichols (2020-01-09):
1517 # America/Halifax ... also applies to Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Listuguj
1518 # reserve in Quebec. Officially, this came into effect on January 1, 2007
1519 # (Legal Time Act, CQLR c T-5.1), but the legislative debates surrounding that
1520 # bill say that it is "accommodating the customs and practices" of those
1521 # regions, which suggests that they have always been in-line with Halifax.
1522 
1523 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1524 Rule    Halifax 1916    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    1:00    D
1525 Rule    Halifax 1916    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    0       S
1526 Rule    Halifax 1920    only    -       May      9      0:00    1:00    D
1527 Rule    Halifax 1920    only    -       Aug     29      0:00    0       S
1528 Rule    Halifax 1921    only    -       May      6      0:00    1:00    D
1529 Rule    Halifax 1921    1922    -       Sep      5      0:00    0       S
1530 Rule    Halifax 1922    only    -       Apr     30      0:00    1:00    D
1531 Rule    Halifax 1923    1925    -       May     Sun>=1       0:00    1:00    D
1532 Rule    Halifax 1923    only    -       Sep      4      0:00    0       S
1533 Rule    Halifax 1924    only    -       Sep     15      0:00    0       S
1534 Rule    Halifax 1925    only    -       Sep     28      0:00    0       S
1535 Rule    Halifax 1926    only    -       May     16      0:00    1:00    D
1536 Rule    Halifax 1926    only    -       Sep     13      0:00    0       S
1537 Rule    Halifax 1927    only    -       May      1      0:00    1:00    D
1538 Rule    Halifax 1927    only    -       Sep     26      0:00    0       S
1539 Rule    Halifax 1928    1931    -       May     Sun>=8       0:00    1:00    D
1540 Rule    Halifax 1928    only    -       Sep      9      0:00    0       S
1541 Rule    Halifax 1929    only    -       Sep      3      0:00    0       S
1542 Rule    Halifax 1930    only    -       Sep     15      0:00    0       S


1596 Rule    Moncton 1940    only    -       May     19      1:00    1:00    D
1597 Rule    Moncton 1941    only    -       May      4      1:00    1:00    D
1598 Rule    Moncton 1946    1972    -       Apr     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
1599 Rule    Moncton 1946    1956    -       Sep     lastSun 2:00    0       S
1600 Rule    Moncton 1957    1972    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
1601 Rule    Moncton 1993    2006    -       Apr     Sun>=1       0:01    1:00    D
1602 Rule    Moncton 1993    2006    -       Oct     lastSun 0:01    0       S
1603 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1604 Zone America/Moncton    -4:19:08 -      LMT     1883 Dec  9
1605                         -5:00   -       EST     1902 Jun 15
1606                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1933
1607                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    1942
1608                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1946
1609                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    1973
1610                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1993
1611                         -4:00   Moncton A%sT    2007
1612                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT
1613 
1614 # Quebec
1615 
1616 # From Paul Eggert (2020-01-10):
1617 # See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal.
1618 # See America/Halifax for the Îles de la Madeleine and the Listuguj reserve.
1619 #
1620 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1621 # meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1622 # Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1623 # The Quebec department of justice writes in
1624 # "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord"
1625 # https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/
1626 # that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
1627 # observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
1628 # This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act,
1629 # CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>.
1630 # For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1631 # Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1632 
1633 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1634 Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -    LMT     1884
1635                         -4:00   Canada  A%sT    1970
1636                         -4:00   -       AST
1637 
1638 # Ontario
1639 
1640 # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1641 # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1642 # Toronto.
1643 # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1644 # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1645 # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1646 # Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1647 
1648 # From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06):
1649 # According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge,
1650 # covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins.
1651 # The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after,
1652 # like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in
1653 # America/Nipigon.  I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the
1654 # zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova
1655 # Scotia)....
1656 
1657 # From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1658 # [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1659 # effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1660 # Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1661 # have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1662 # 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1663 # hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1664 # only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1665 # presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1666 # earlier in June).
1667 #
1668 # Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1669 #
1670 # From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08):
1671 # For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving
1672 # time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08.
1673 # https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html
1674 
1675 # From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1676 # Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star


2443 # I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using
2444 # Eastern Standard Time.
2445 #
2446 # Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the
2447 # 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way
2448 # of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in
2449 # the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs"
2450 #
2451 # This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008.
2452 #
2453 # I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz
2454 # responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You
2455 # may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a
2456 # search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site"
2457 #
2458 # If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would
2459 # never have contacted her.  I now believe that all the information I
2460 # obtained in November 2008 should be ignored...
2461 # I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008.
2462 
2463 # From Tim Parenti (2020-03-05):
2464 # The government of Yukon announced [yesterday] the cessation of seasonal time
2465 # changes.  "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory
2466 # will remain on [UTC-07].  ... [The government] found 93 per cent of
2467 # respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that group, 70 per
2468 # cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'"
2469 # https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.5486358
2470 #
2471 # Although the government press release prefers PDT, we prefer MST for
2472 # consistency with nearby Dawson Creek, Creston, and Fort Nelson.
2473 # https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change
2474 
2475 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
2476 Rule    NT_YK   1918    only    -       Apr     14      2:00    1:00    D
2477 Rule    NT_YK   1918    only    -       Oct     27      2:00    0       S
2478 Rule    NT_YK   1919    only    -       May     25      2:00    1:00    D
2479 Rule    NT_YK   1919    only    -       Nov      1      0:00    0       S
2480 Rule    NT_YK   1942    only    -       Feb      9      2:00    1:00    W # War
2481 Rule    NT_YK   1945    only    -       Aug     14      23:00u  1:00    P # Peace
2482 Rule    NT_YK   1945    only    -       Sep     30      2:00    0       S
2483 Rule    NT_YK   1965    only    -       Apr     lastSun 0:00    2:00    DD
2484 Rule    NT_YK   1965    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
2485 Rule    NT_YK   1980    1986    -       Apr     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
2486 Rule    NT_YK   1980    2006    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0       S
2487 Rule    NT_YK   1987    2006    -       Apr     Sun>=1       2:00    1:00    D
2488 # Zone  NAME            STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
2489 # aka Panniqtuuq
2490 Zone America/Pangnirtung 0      -       -00     1921 # trading post est.
2491                         -4:00   NT_YK   A%sT    1995 Apr Sun>=1  2:00
2492                         -5:00   Canada  E%sT    1999 Oct 31  2:00
2493                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2494                         -5:00   Canada  E%sT


2509                         -6:00   NT_YK   C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2510                         -5:00   -       EST     2001 Apr  1  3:00
2511                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT
2512 # aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
2513 Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0    -       -00     1920 # trading post est.?
2514                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1999 Oct 31  2:00
2515                         -6:00   Canada  C%sT    2000 Oct 29  2:00
2516                         -5:00   -       EST     2000 Nov  5  0:00
2517                         -6:00   -       CST     2001 Apr  1  3:00
2518                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2519 Zone America/Yellowknife 0      -       -00     1935 # Yellowknife founded?
2520                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1980
2521                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2522 Zone America/Inuvik     0       -       -00     1953 # Inuvik founded
2523                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1979 Apr lastSun  2:00
2524                         -7:00   NT_YK   M%sT    1980
2525                         -7:00   Canada  M%sT
2526 Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 -      LMT     1900 Aug 20
2527                         -9:00   NT_YK   Y%sT    1967 May 28  0:00
2528                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1980
2529                         -8:00   Canada  P%sT    2020 Mar  8  2:00
2530                         -7:00   -       MST
2531 Zone America/Dawson     -9:17:40 -      LMT     1900 Aug 20
2532                         -9:00   NT_YK   Y%sT    1973 Oct 28  0:00
2533                         -8:00   NT_YK   P%sT    1980
2534                         -8:00   Canada  P%sT    2020 Mar  8  2:00
2535                         -7:00   -       MST
2536 
2537 
2538 ###############################################################################
2539 
2540 # Mexico
2541 
2542 # From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07):
2543 # The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
2544 # Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
2545 # history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
2546 # http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm
2547 #
2548 # Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
2549 # (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
2550 # S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
2551 # S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
2552 # S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
2553 # S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
2554 
2555 # From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):


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