From a80727b9c04040ca2cb88090551c58d481f91b72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 22:37:33 -0500 Subject: Yukon keeps year-round PDT form 2020-03-08. * northamerica (America/Whitehorse, America/Dawson): Canada's Yukon moves to "permanent Pacific Daylight Time" (-07) year-round and will not fall back on 2020-11-01. * NEWS: Mention this. --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ northamerica | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e1ac4a9..7e541ac 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,9 +3,17 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes Briefly: + Canada's Yukon will stay on year-round PDT from 2020-03-08. America/Nuuk renamed from America/Godthab. zic now supports expiration dates for leap second lists. + Changes to future timestamps + + Canada's Yukon will stay on "permanent Pacific Daylight Time" (-07) + year-round, beginning with its spring-forward transition on + 2020-03-08, and will not fall back on 2020-11-01. This affects + America/Whitehorse and America/Dawson. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) + Changes to timezone identifiers To reflect current usage in English better, America/Godthab has diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index eba1819..f67700c 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -2437,6 +2437,19 @@ Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 # obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... # I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. +# From Tim Parenti (2020-03-04): +# 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 +# +# Beginning 2020-03-08 02:00, use a base offset of -08:00 with 1:00 "permanent" +# DST for Yukon. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S @@ -2491,11 +2504,13 @@ Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 - -8:00 Canada P%sT + -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Mar 8 2:00 + -8:00 1:00 MST Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 - -8:00 Canada P%sT + -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Mar 8 2:00 + -8:00 1:00 MST ############################################################################### -- 2.15.1