Talk:Time in Canada

Rank for number of time zones changed

Where does this information come from? no reference or real explanation. From the main Time Zone#Additional Information page

“ Russia has eleven time zones, including Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea. France also has eleven time zones including those of France, French Guiana and numerous islands, inhabited and uninhabited. The United States has ten time zones (nine official plus that for Wake Island and its Antarctic stations). Australia has nine time zones (one unofficial and three official on the mainland plus four for its territories and one more for an Antarctic station not included in other time zones). The United Kingdom has eight time zones for itself and its overseas territories. Canada has six official time zones. ”

But this isn't cited either.

Yukon time zone continued

I had another close look at the O.I.C. (Order-in-Council) this evening.
This is what it says:

YUKON CANADA ORDER-IN-COUNCIL 2020/125

The attached Yukon Standard Time Regulation is made.

The following orders are repealed, effective November 1, 2020:

(a) C.O. 1973/214;

(b) D.I.C. 2006/127.

Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon September 24,2020.

INTERPRETATION ACT

YUKON STANDARD TIME REGULATION

Standard time

1 Standard time is to be reckoned as seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-7).

Coming into force

2 This Regulation comes into force on November 1, 2020.

• The first section of the O.I.C. repeals all previous legislation that defined the use of daylight saving.
• The second section defines a new UTC offset (UTC-7) for the Yukon's version of standard time
• The O.I.C. does not mention Pacific Time
• The O.I.C. does not define any period of daylight saving. In fact it does not mention daylight saving at all.

There is only one valid interpretation of the new legislation: Yukon is legally on permanent standard time and standard time is reckoned as UTC-7. Legislation is binding; old news releases are not. Any claims people have made about Yukon officially operating on any form of permanent daylight saving time are false. MapGrid (talk) 07:14, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

References

Map

Is the map gonna updated if sunshine act take in effect 184.144.174.44 (talk) 17:28, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Tungsten NWT

@CambridgeBayWeather: Tungsten is the old townsite built beside the Cantung mine. It supposedly supposedly operated on PST/PDT; this made sense because the only road access was via The Yukon. Several things have changed:

• The mine was shutdown in 2015.
• The former owner (North American Tungsten) went bankrupt in 2015; the site is now government owned.
• Yukon switched to MST in 2020

The community only existed to serve the mine. I found no online evidence to suggest that anybody lives there anymore. The Time zone should therefore be MST/MDT as defined in the NWT Interpretation Act MapGrid (talk) 15:19, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm aware of all that but saying it's on MST/MDT without a reference is original research. I checked the Canada Flight Supplement (valid until 0901Z 21 March 2024) and it says the airport is still UTC-08:00 and no DST. If the site is still only accessible by road, from Yukon, and the small airport it may not observe DST to match the rest of the territory. That's why it didn't observe DST before.

Also the GNWT may have sold their share in the mine. I did see something about that. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 03:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)