[tz] Yukon to move to year-round PDT

[Tim Parenti]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 16:28, Chris Walton <Chris.Walton at telus.com> wrote:

> There are four existing zones that are already on permanent UTC-7:
>         America/Dawson_Creek
>         America/Creston
>         America/Fort_Nelson
>         America/Phoenix
> None of these zones makes use the DST bit.  The time zone is displayed
> year round as MST instead of PDT.  I don't think anybody complains about it.
>
> I don't see any compelling reason to treat the two Yukon zones
> (America/Whitehorse & America/Dawson) any differently than the four
> existing UTC-7 zones.


A good point.  I had forgotten about the smaller areas already observing
-07 year-round.

So, this new proposed patch, attached, affects abbreviations from this
coming weekend.  But timestamps remain unaffected until November.

--
Tim Parenti
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