Pending changes to time of Newfoundland Time Zone for Daylight Savings Time

Jonathan Leffler jonathan.leffler at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 21:20:49 UTC 2011


Where is the 'time of change' recorded in this data?

As I understand the legislation, having found
http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/statutes/s23.htm (which is, I
think, the current Standard Time Act), the intent is to alter the local time
at which the switch is made from the unusual 12:01 am to the more normal
02:00 am.  It is not clear to me that the existing table recognizes this as
the time when the change occurs.  I don't think the offsets from UTC
(Greenwich Mean Solar Time is mentioned in the statute) change; it is 2.5
hours west of (behind) UTC during daylight time and 3.5 hours west of
(behind) UTC during standard time.

s23.htm says in part:

*Standard time*

        *2.*  (1) Time in the province shall be reckoned as 3 1/2 hours
later than Greenwich mean solar time.

             (2)  Time reckoned in accordance with subsection (1) shall be
known as "Newfoundland Standard Time".

RSN1970 c270 s2

*Daylight time*

        *3.*  (1) During the period in each year that the
Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by regulation establish, time in the
province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours later than Greenwich mean solar
time.

          (1.1)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), beginning in the year 2007
and continuing until changed under subsection (1), during the period in each
year between one minute after 12 a.m. of the second Sunday in March and one
minute after 12 a.m. of the first Sunday in November time in the province
shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours later than Greenwich mean solar time.

             (2)  Time reckoned in accordance with subsection (1) shall be
known as "Newfoundland Daylight Time".

RSN1970 c270 s3; 1987 c3 s1; 2006 c31
s1<http://www.assembly.nl.ca/Legislation/sr/Annualstatutes/2006/0631.chp.htm>

The amended section 3(1.1) reads:

    (1.1)  Until changed under subsection (1), during the period in each
year between 2 a.m. of the second Sunday in March and 2 a.m. of the first
Sunday in November time in the province shall be reckoned as 2 1/2 hours
later than Greenwich mean solar time.


It will be interesting working backwards to the 1970 act to see what other
changes have been made over the years, and whether the historical data is
accurate.


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 14:07, Chris Walton <Chris.Walton at telus.com> wrote:

>
> Bill 6 received Royal Assent on May 31/2011.
> http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm
> Section 2 of Bill 6 states:
> "This Act comes into force on a day to be proclaimed by the
> Lieutenant-Governor in Council."
>
> Do we expect Bill 6 to receive proclamation "before" or "after" to the next
> clock change?
> i.e. will proclamation take place prior to Nov 6/2011?
>
>
> Assuming the Bill is proclaimed prior to Nov 6/2001, a patch to the
> northamerica file might look something like this:
>
> --- old/northamerica    2011-06-15 11:05:20.000000000 +0000
> +++ new/northamerica    2011-08-05 20:04:17.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1178,7 +1178,8 @@
>                        -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT   1935 Mar 30
>                        -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1942 May 11
>                        -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
> -                       -3:30   StJohns N%sT
> +                       -3:30   StJohns N%sT    2011 Nov  6
> +                       -3:30   Canada  N%sT
>
>  # most of east Labrador
>
> @@ -1192,7 +1193,8 @@
>                        -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1942 May 11
>                        -3:30   Canada  N%sT    1946
>                        -3:30   StJohns N%sT    1966 Mar 15 2:00
> -                       -4:00   StJohns A%sT
> +                       -4:00   StJohns A%sT    2011 Nov  6
> +                       -4:00   Canada  A%sT
>
>
>  # west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
>
>
>
> -chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov]
> Sent: August 5, 2011 2:54 PM
> To: 'tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov'
> Cc: 'mpelley at gov.nl.ca'
> Subject: FW: Pending changes to time of Newfoundland Time Zone for Daylight
> Savings Time
>
> I'm forwarding this message from Michael Pelley, who is not on the time
> zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies
> appropriately.
>
> Once we learn that the proclamation has been issued, the changes should up
> at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub about two weeks later.
> From there propagation depends on database users.
>
>                                --ado
>
> From: Pelley, Michael [mailto:MPelley at gov.nl.ca]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 12:43
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Pending changes to time of Newfoundland Time Zone for Daylight
> Savings Time
>
> Folks,
>
> The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has pending changes to modify
> the hour for daylight savings time to come into effect in November 2011.
> This modification would change the time from 12:01AM to 2:00AM on the dates
> of the switches of Daylight Savings Time to/from Standard Time.
>
> As a matter of reference, in Canada provinces have the authority of setting
> time zone information.  The legislation has passed our legislative body
> (“The House of Assembly”) and is awaiting the proclamation to come into
> effect.  You may find this information at:
> http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/lists/Proclamation.htm and search
> within that web page for “Standard Time (Amendment) Act”.  The Act may be
> found at: http://www.assembly.nl.ca/business/bills/Bill1106.htm
>
> We would appreciate if we could receive some guidance as to:
> • The official mechanism for implementing this change;
> • The timeframe for the implementation of the change within the TZ sources.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
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>
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