[tz] [IANA #1173666] Time zone change - Yukon Canada

[Arthur David Olson]

One other piece of information to solicit from governments who switch to
permanent DST: is the new scheme permanent daylight time, or does it
establish a new standard time?

(This can be of importance in dealing with laws or contracts written in
terms of "standard time.")

    @dashdashado

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:22 PM Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at systematicsw.ab.ca>
wrote:

> We should also ask all government folks to provide web links to officially
> published acts, decrees, laws, orders, regulations, or statutes available
> online
> at a government web site, with the document providing full details
> including
> dates, times, and the zones in effect when any changes or transitions in
> time
> are to be made, plus any preferences as to normal English names or
> abbreviations, as well as the legally effective date (time, zone) of
> publication.
> These official document links avoid any possible later issues, should
> anyone
> dispute and solicit changes to the time keeping practice in effect at any
> location within that legal jurisdiction, as we are aware of both official
> and de
> facto variances in practices near many time zone boundaries.
>
> On 2020-07-03 12:40, Tim Parenti wrote:
> > Thanks for keeping us in the loop, then.
> > Since tz is used directly by many operating systems — Apple (including
> iOS),
> > Google (including Android), and most Linux distributions — most
> day-to-day users
> > should be good to go when the change is finalized, if they aren't
> already.  For
> > what it's worth, it seems Microsoft have also picked up on the change
> >
> https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/daylight-saving-time-time-zone/time-zone-updates-for-yukon-canada/ba-p/1334689
> ,
> > though from the date of their announcement, it's possible they got the
> news
> > from us.
> > Other software which does not rely on the operating system's timezone
> > definitions may require their own updates; those concerns are downstream
> > from this project.
>
> > On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 14:31, Andrew Smith wrote:
> > That is excellent to hear, Tim.
> > Yes, I had known that some time services has interpreted our
> announcement as
> > the ‘done and dusted’ finalization. At that point in March it was a
> policy
> > commitment, and the news on that nuance was not totally clear. We just
> do
> > have some legal process to finish off, which we are on track to do, so I
> > don’t think we will end up in a tough spot.
> > I will let you know when we make our change legally final so we can all
> rest
> > assured that November 2 will still see us on UTC -7.
>
> > On July 3, 2020 11:24 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:
> > We made this change in our codebase on 5 March 2020, based on 4 March
> CBC
> > reporting and a government press release stating that Yukon would be
> > remaining permanently on UTC-7 following its spring-forward transition
> on 8
> > March.  As such, both America/Dawson and America/Whitehorse have been
> updated
> > accordingly:
> >
> https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/e6c1f0e7daa0b6c5131b2976c6be9190845d2b49
> > (Canada/Yukon is a long-deprecated backwards-compatibility link to
> > America/Whitehorse, so need not be updated separately.)
> > This change is already included in our latest release, 2020a, which was
> > published on 23 April 2020.  Although it can sometimes take several
> weeks or
> > months after publication for our releases to make it to downstream
> > distributions and software updates for various computer and mobile
> platforms,
> > many recent devices that are receiving regular updates should already
> have
> > this change, and many more are likely to receive it before Yukon time
> > diverges from our old predictions in November.
> > One (hopefully small) point: Our understanding from the press release at
> > https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change was that this
> > decision was already finalized.  If it is not, this is not a major issue,
> > but do note that tz's current predictions published in 2020a do not have
> > Yukon falling back on 1 November 2020… so if for some reason the
> regulatory
> > processes should be delayed, please contact us as soon as that's
> apparent.
> > On July 2, 2020 3:48 PM, Amanda Baber via RT wrote:
> > Thank you for contacting us.
> > IANA hosts the Time Zone Database, but the database is managed by the
> Time
> > Zone Coordinator in conjunction with a mailing list. You can find find
> > mailing list information here:
> > https://www.iana.org/time-zones
> > This document should have or point to much of the information you're
> looking
> > for:
> > https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html
> > As is noted at the link above, "If your government plans to change its
> time
> > zone boundaries or daylight saving rules, inform tz at iana.org well in
> advance,
> > as this will coordinate updates to many cell phones, computers, and other
> > devices around the world. With less than a year's notice there is a good
> > chance that some computer-based clocks will operate incorrectly after the
> > change, due to delays in propagating updates to software and data. The
> > shorter the notice, the more likely clock problems will arise; see
> > https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes
> > for examples."
>
> > On Thu Jul 02 22:20:44 2020, Andrew Smith wrote:
> >> I work for the Government of Yukon in Canada. We are in the process of
> >> revising our definition of time to be permanently on UTC -7, no longer
> >> observing a twice-annual time change. I was on the hunt for
> authoritative
> >> standards related to time, and saw the IANA come up as caretaker of the
> >> time zone database, which appears to be relied on for software and
> systems.
> >> I started with ISO 8601, but couldn't see the full text to know if there
> >> are time zone standards there. I am contacting you to see your TZ
> database
> >> is a widely adopted and authoritative as it seems, to see if there is
> any
> >> process to making this adjustment in your TZ database, and perhaps to
> know
> >> if there are other agencies that should be aware of what Yukon is
> >> planning.
> >> From what I see now, TZ database names "America/Dawson",
> >> "America/Whitehorse" and "Canada/Yukon" would be affected by this
> change.
> >>
> >> Our regulation is not yet complete, so it is not law at this time and I
> am
> >> not looking for immediate change. We are aiming for finalization here by
> >> November 1, 2020.
>
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>
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