[tz] Yukon time history updates with references containing some Canadian and global data

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Apr 18 02:15:41 UTC 2015


Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>
> Note that the Yukon had two time zones until 1973, but the
> database already knows that.  America/Whitehorse is the
> other side of the split.

Thanks, I'd forgotten about that.  In this case, Brian Inglis's comments suggest 
that we need a correction to America/Whitehorse.  (The old datum came from 
Shanks.)  Proposed patch attached.

> If you are keeping all that might be better not to lose the
> reference to the federal statute
>
>     Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1)
>
> available here
>
>      http://canlii.ca/t/7vhg

Thanks, the attached patch resurrects that too.

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