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@ Lachlb and Phoenix B 1of3: The map appearing in this article, File:UTC hue4map CAN-NU.png, shows that a tiny tip of Southampton Island is on CST year-round, while the rest of the island is on EST year-round. But the article text was edited to say (kind of clumsily) that all of Southampton Island is on EST year-round. The article Time in Canada shows a map File:UTC hue4map CAN.png, also made by User:Phoenix B 1of3, in which all of Southampton Island is on EST (the western tip does not have a different colour there). I looked up the applicable territorial statute [1] and regulation [2], and federal proclamation [3], which say that officially, the area of "Southampton Island and the islands adjacent to Southampton Island" are to observe Eastern Standard Time. There is no special mention of the western tip. Accordingly the time zone maps at the National Research Council website [4] [5] also show all of Southampton Island in the same time zone. But I wonder, how did it get originally introduced into Wikipedia, that the western tip of Southampton Island is in a different time zone than the rest of the island? Is that just an error, or does it reflect reality, i.e. is there a community there which in fact observes a different time zone than the rest of the island, even though it isn't official for legal purposes? If so, that ought to be included in this article. Mathew5000 ( talk) 01:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Here are some sources, mostly from the CBC web site, regarding the debates in 1999-2001 about whether Nunavut should have one time zone or three:
I think these debates were covered more extensively by Nunatsiaq News but most articles from that time seem to have been removed from the website. Or at any rate, the old URLs no longer work. Some of the sources are probably still available from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Mathew5000 ( talk) 08:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
It sounds like there should be 3 regions total, which means that the legend should have 3 items total, Eastern Standard Time, Central Time, and Mountain Time. And I would suggest including the word "Standard" here to remove ambiguity about whether DST is observed. So the current top line should be removed. And also, the map should be slightly updated, so that there is only one shade of yellow present. Is this correct? RheingoldRiver ( talk) 01:31, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
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@ Lachlb and Phoenix B 1of3: The map appearing in this article, File:UTC hue4map CAN-NU.png, shows that a tiny tip of Southampton Island is on CST year-round, while the rest of the island is on EST year-round. But the article text was edited to say (kind of clumsily) that all of Southampton Island is on EST year-round. The article Time in Canada shows a map File:UTC hue4map CAN.png, also made by User:Phoenix B 1of3, in which all of Southampton Island is on EST (the western tip does not have a different colour there). I looked up the applicable territorial statute [1] and regulation [2], and federal proclamation [3], which say that officially, the area of "Southampton Island and the islands adjacent to Southampton Island" are to observe Eastern Standard Time. There is no special mention of the western tip. Accordingly the time zone maps at the National Research Council website [4] [5] also show all of Southampton Island in the same time zone. But I wonder, how did it get originally introduced into Wikipedia, that the western tip of Southampton Island is in a different time zone than the rest of the island? Is that just an error, or does it reflect reality, i.e. is there a community there which in fact observes a different time zone than the rest of the island, even though it isn't official for legal purposes? If so, that ought to be included in this article. Mathew5000 ( talk) 01:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
Here are some sources, mostly from the CBC web site, regarding the debates in 1999-2001 about whether Nunavut should have one time zone or three:
I think these debates were covered more extensively by Nunatsiaq News but most articles from that time seem to have been removed from the website. Or at any rate, the old URLs no longer work. Some of the sources are probably still available from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Mathew5000 ( talk) 08:37, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
It sounds like there should be 3 regions total, which means that the legend should have 3 items total, Eastern Standard Time, Central Time, and Mountain Time. And I would suggest including the word "Standard" here to remove ambiguity about whether DST is observed. So the current top line should be removed. And also, the map should be slightly updated, so that there is only one shade of yellow present. Is this correct? RheingoldRiver ( talk) 01:31, 16 June 2023 (UTC)