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@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. +# When proposing changes to this file, please use 'git format-patch' +# format, either by attaching the resulting .patch file to your email, +# or by using 'git send-email'. This will help maintainers save time. + # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): @@ -750,6 +754,55 @@ Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s -5:00 Canada E%sT +# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): +# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, +# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: +# +# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: +# +# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, +# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist +# +# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: +# +# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator +# +# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. +# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to +# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not +# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. +# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, +# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. +# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to +# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with +# the current state of affairs. + +# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the +# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): +# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html +# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, +# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time +# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] +# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. + +# From Chris Walton (2022-11-06): +# The implication is that Pangnirtung and Qikiqtarjuaq have observed Eastern +# Time as far back as 1984 (and likely even further back than that). +# It is possible that these communities never actually observed Atlantic +# Time, but that would be difficult to prove. +# From Paul Eggert (2022-11-06): +# This is in 'backzone' as we have no good evidence that Pangnirtung differs +# from America/Iqaluit since 1970. A Google Books snippet view of +# volume 2, page 186 of "Pilot of Arctic Canada", published 1959 by +# the Canadian Hydrographic Service, suggests (though does not state) +# that Pangnirtung observed EST then. +# +# aka Panniqtuuq +Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. + -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 + -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 + -5:00 Canada E%sT + # United States # # From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): @@ -1043,7 +1096,7 @@ Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 7:20 - +0720 1941 Sep 1 7:30 - +0730 1942 Feb 16 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 12 - 7:30 - +0730 1982 Jan 1 + 7:30 - +0730 1981 Dec 31 16:00u 8:00 - +08 # Kuwait |