[tz] [PATCH] Be a bit more consistent about Metlakatla and Resolute abbr and comments.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Jul 18 07:45:40 UTC 2014


* northamerica (America/Metlakatla): Use the more-common "PST"
rather than our invented "MeST" for the abbreviation.  Our source
called it "Pacific Time", as did a contemporaneous news report,
and I couldn't find contemporaneous use of "MeST" or of
"Metlakatla Time".  Cite the news report in the commentary,
and quote some Juneau graffiti.
* zone.tab (America/Resolute): Call it Central Time, not Central
Standard Time, since it observes DST now.
(America/Metlakatla): Call it Pacific Standard Time, not
Metlakatla Time.  Mention that it's in Alaska.
* NEWS: Document the above.
---
 NEWS         |  5 +++++
 northamerica | 17 +++++++++++------
 zone.tab     |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f77fe86..ffcbd92 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Prefix "W" to (western) Samoa time when its standard-time offset
     disagrees with that of American Samoa.
 
+    America/Metlakatla now uses PST, not MeST, to abbreviate its time zone.
+
     Time zone abbreviations have been updated for Japan's two time
     zones used 1896-1937.  JWST now stands for Western Standard
     Time, and JCST for Central Standard Time (formerly this was CJT).
@@ -173,6 +175,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
     There is new commentary about time in Poland in 1919.
 
+    Commentary about time in Metlakatla, AK and Resolute, NU has been
+    improved, with a new source for the former.
+
     In zone.tab, Pacific/Easter no longer mentions Salas y Gómez, as it
     is uninhabited.
 
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index c461ef4..1b6bb23 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -421,13 +421,18 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
 # was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.)  However, there
 # were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps
 # it's best to simply use the official transition.
-#
 
-# From Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31):
-# The author lives in Alaska and many of the references listed are only
-# available to Alaskan residents.
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18):
+# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and
+# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall:
+# "Welcome to Juneau.  Please turn your watch back to the 19th century."
+# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01.
+# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html
 #
-# http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&page=Glimpses%20of%20the%20Past&viewpost=2&ContentId=98
+# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source:
+# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response.
+# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2).
+# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/
 
 # From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01):
 # Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article:
@@ -489,7 +494,7 @@ Zone America/Metlakatla	 15:13:42 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
 			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
 			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
 			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
-			 -8:00	-	MeST
+			 -8:00	-	PST
 Zone America/Yakutat	 14:41:05 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
 			 -9:18:55 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
 			 -9:00	-	YST	1942
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index e29778c..e415ca6 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ CA	+4901-08816	America/Nipigon	Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - places that did
 CA	+4823-08915	America/Thunder_Bay	Eastern Time - Thunder Bay, Ontario
 CA	+6344-06828	America/Iqaluit	Eastern Time - east Nunavut - most locations
 CA	+6608-06544	America/Pangnirtung	Eastern Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut
-CA	+744144-0944945	America/Resolute	Central Standard Time - Resolute, Nunavut
+CA	+744144-0944945	America/Resolute	Central Time - Resolute, Nunavut
 CA	+484531-0913718	America/Atikokan	Eastern Standard Time - Atikokan, Ontario and Southampton I, Nunavut
 CA	+624900-0920459	America/Rankin_Inlet	Central Time - central Nunavut
 CA	+4953-09709	America/Winnipeg	Central Time - Manitoba & west Ontario
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ US	+571035-1351807	America/Sitka	Alaska Time - southeast Alaska panhandle
 US	+593249-1394338	America/Yakutat	Alaska Time - Alaska panhandle neck
 US	+643004-1652423	America/Nome	Alaska Time - west Alaska
 US	+515248-1763929	America/Adak	Aleutian Islands
-US	+550737-1313435	America/Metlakatla	Metlakatla Time - Annette Island
+US	+550737-1313435	America/Metlakatla	Pacific Standard Time - Annette Island, Alaska
 US	+211825-1575130	Pacific/Honolulu	Hawaii
 UY	-3453-05611	America/Montevideo
 UZ	+3940+06648	Asia/Samarkand	west Uzbekistan
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