On Sat, 19 Sept 2026 at 16:03, James Bellaire <[email protected]> wrote:
> BTW: The CBC map shows…Nunavik (northern > Quebec) following UTC-04 year round. > > > I was hoping Makivvik would make a more definitive statement on the > issue than the CBC interview last year. As far as I can tell, CBC's 7 November 2025 article remains the only major secondary source reporting the proposed change in Nunavik. At the time, we'd flagged that as a bit thin on the types of details we'd need. Reporter Samuel Wat clarified to this list in February 2026 that his primary sources were community radio interviews and Facebook posts from Makivvik staff: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/LJJ5NAXPTCLUQ7PJQCTJBXBNEOIXGMHC/#VCYHKT2B4RRGBOQ3E4OOYVOAWFZGKXW3 Since then, Paul and I have continued to maintain private correspondence with a staffer there on a periodic basis to try to get more information on progress in their process, which was still in quite early stages at that time. At present, there's not much I can characterize publicly about where their timekeeping plans may actually be headed, as the process has been fairly slow compared to what we've recently seen elsewhere in Canada, and some of the details remain unclear to us even now. But we've been in contact as recently as a couple weeks ago and have been encouraging them to consider communicating clear timelines, both to us and to the broader public and media, as soon as they're ready to. The continued uncertainty of whether and when timekeeping in Nunavik will actually diverge from the rest of Québec is the main reason we've still not yet moved forward with an America/Kuujjuaq zone for Nunavik, despite CBC's inclusion of the proposed change in its recent reporting on related changes. -- Tim Parenti
