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<div>Steve J.,</div>
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<div>Back in 2007 I posted a Canadian time zone map in one of the Google Earth forums.</div>
<div>Here is the link to the posting.</div>
<div><a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1024037&site_id=1#import"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1024037&site_id=1#import</u></font></a></div>
<div>Make sure you read the entire post and then open the map by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.</div>
<div>Once the file opens in Google Earth, you will need to press the radio buttons at the left to see the Winter and Summer Time Zone maps.</div>
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<div>There are discrepancies between my map and yours but most of them are relatively minor.</div>
<div>The biggest difference is in Eastern Québec; I think you picked up on the fact that Petit-Mécatina territory was officially removed from the Minganie region last year and merged with Basse-Côte-Nord to form the new region of “Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent”.
I did not know about this until I started digging into it this morning.</div>
<div>I guess we should assume that Petit-Mécatina is now on AST year round as you have indicated.</div>
<div>I will nit-pick by pointing out that the new border between Minganie and Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is not as straight as the line you have drawn on your map; it is supposed to follow the Natashquan River.</div>
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<div>For anybody else interested in Québec time zone boundaries here is a summary of events between 2006 and 2010:</div>
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<div>In 2006 the Québec government updated the time Act such that there were four time zone regions in the province:</div>
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<div>1: Îles-de-la-Madeleine:</div>
<div> UTC-4(winter)/UTC-3(summer) AST/ADT</div>
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<div>2: Listiguj Indian Reservation:</div>
<div> UTC-4(winter)/UTC-3(summer) AST/ADT</div>
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<div>3: all areas lying west of 63 degrees and the entire Minganie Region:</div>
<div> UTC-5(winter)/UTC-4(summer) EST/EDT</div>
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<div>4: all other areas lying east of 63 degrees (namely Basse-Côte-Nord a.k.a. Lower North Shore):</div>
<div> UTC-4(winter&summer) AST/AST</div>
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<div>The National Research Council of Canada and Natural Resources Canada never updated the official Canadian time zone maps; they remain out of date today.</div>
<div>But the Québec government released this helpful map. It has a date of April 28/2009.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm</u></font></a></div>
<div>Note: all maps released by the Québec government show the Labrador border to be further north than it is on maps produced by the Canadian Federal government.</div>
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<div>On July 7/2010 Petit-Mécatina territory was was transferred from the Minganie Region and merged with Basse-Côte-Nord to form a new region named “Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent”.</div>
<div>If we stick with the wording of the 2006 Time Act, we can assume that on July 7/2010 Petit-Mécatina moved back to being on AST year round (same as it was prior to 2006). With an area of about 40,000km this is a significant change on a time zone map but
with a population of precisely zero, it impacts nobody except the map makers.</div>
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<div>-chris</div>
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<div>From: Steve Jones [stevejones@OnTimeZone.com]</div>
<div>Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:31 AM</div>
<div>To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov</div>
<div>Subject: New site with North American Time Zone borders</div>
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<div>Apologies if this is not of interest here. I'm new, recently joining</div>
<div>to keep up on changes in order to keep a website with time zone data</div>
<div>up to date.</div>
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<div>There is likely nothing here that will be news to anybody, but you</div>
<div>may find it interesting: <a href="http://ontimezone.com">http://ontimezone.com</a></div>
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<div>I will be grateful for any feedback about the data, especially corrections!</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Steve Jones</div>
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