On Mon, 21 Sept 2026 at 14:18, nfitz--- via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > As CBC keeps reporting the Nunavik change, is is it worth contacting their > Nunavik bureau in Kuujjuaq? >
I did copy Samuel Wat, the original author of CBC's Nunavik reporting last year, on a recent list message for his general awareness about our understanding of the situation there. But they would of course have to go through their own research process before reporting out any updates. > Ontario could issue a regulation in an instant, as long as the changes to > the Time Act remain unproclaimed. Individual municipalities (like the City > of Kenora) could also do their own thing quickly - though it's unlikely > with the municipal elections at the end of October. > The various upcoming municipal elections in many of the areas we're watching (British Columbia on 17 October, Ontario on 26 October, Manitoba on 28 October) certainly add an interesting dimension to all of this, but one that I think we'd rather avoid engaging with directly wherever possible. It may just be that we have to wait for the dust to settle and then call around the area asking "what time is it there?" as has been done at a few points in the not-so-recent past. In particular, at this late juncture, I am definitely not inclined to react by hastily making new zones that may not end up being needed once things actually shake out in *de facto* practice come 1 November. The safest thing to do in the interim seems to be to assume (albeit likely incorrectly) that all relevant portions of northwestern Ontario will follow Winnipeg, while any regions that don't can employ workarounds by using America/Chicago or America/Toronto as may be appropriate in the meantime. The sheer number of potential jurisdictions involved, and the rapidity with which they will either need to make decisions or not, starts to evoke the guidance on "[if] boundaries between regions are fluid" in theory.html: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/data/theory.html#naming It also so happens Paul and I both have a busy week this week — certainly not the biggest reason we advise 6–12 months' notice, but not a total non-factor either! 😅 But it's also why we're not likely to be able to reach out proactively to more than a handful of key jurisdictions beyond whatever traditional media may be able to help synthesize in the meantime. While the data fix itself for Manitoba is of course straightforward, documenting it and all of the potential knock-on effects comprehensively enough in a way that is both suitable for release and resilient to whatever may come next has been a fair bit more involved. Proposed patch attached, and installed in the development repository. -- Tim Parenti
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