[tz] Yukon to move to year-round PDT

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Thu Mar 5 04:08:08 UTC 2020


Now with a better-formed commit message.

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Tim Parenti


On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 22:53, Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com> wrote:

> The government of Yukon announced today the cessation of seasonal time
> changes.  "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory
> will remain on 'Pacific Daylight Saving Time'.  ... [The government] found
> 93 per cent of respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that
> group, 70 per cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'"
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.5486358
>
> Government press release:
> https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change
>
> Interestingly, in the report
> <https://yukon.ca/sites/yukon.ca/files/engage/engage-eco-seasonal-time-change-wwh.pdf>
> released with today's action, 57% of respondents said that "maintain[ing]
> time relationships with other jurisdictions" was either very or somewhat
> important, while only 26% said it was not very or not at all important.
>
> Perhaps this might be better treated as "MST", like Arizona, as that is
> more similar to Saskatchewan's existing use of CST.  However, since the
> press release expresses a preference for "PDT", attached is a proposed
> patch which calls it that, implemented as UTC-08 +1 hour DST year-round.
> Since this change doesn't affect timestamps until 2020-11-01, we have a bit
> of time to determine the preferred representation and/or wait for the
> relevant legal wording before this necessitates a new release.
>
> --
> Tim Parenti
>
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