On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 17:28, Paul Eggert via tz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-06-19 13:22, Cary Sweet wrote: > > this Regulation expires on June 30, 2031. > > > > Does this mean that the Edmonton timezone in the patch should also > revert back to MST on that date? > No, even though that Alberta regulation expires then, it's merely about > the legal term for the time in Alberta. The Alberta Order in Council > that changes timekeeping, which is what counts for us, doesn't expire. > To be clear, one OiC brought the new Official Time Act into force, the other uses the regulatory authority within the Act to prescribe an official name and make conforming (or "consequential") amendments to other regulations. In this case, the Regulation (spelled out in the appendix of OiC 206/2026) is what expires, not the Act. (And the OiCs themselves are simply the orders that made those things happen, so it's inaccurate to say those "expire" either.) > The regulation also simply deletes several instances of the phrase > "Mountain Standard Time" from other regulations, without replacing them > with "Alberta Time". I expect they did this because they didn't want the > hassle of replacing lots of "Alberta Time"s later. I highly suspect the Regulation may be structured with its expiry and review provision just as much (or more) to simplify the task of putting all the "Mountain Standard Time"s back in or replacing them with some other string if, down the line, this latest change to timekeeping is further amended or reversed for whatever reason, or a new standardized term becomes widely adopted. On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 at 13:51, James Bellaire via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > The comment should refer to 206/2026 instead of 202/2026. Yes, I also found that particular sequence of characters to go against what the fingers wanted to do naturally. ;) Fixup attached. -- Tim Parenti
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