[OmniOS-discuss] Time zone for Quebec, Canada

[Dan McDonald]

On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Simon Boulet <simon at nostalgeek.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe those are generated from IANA's timezone database, which we updated for r151012.  It looks like there's been a new update post-freeze, but generally, we just compile those and run.
> 
> Here's an up to date list for Canada:  http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/Multizones.html#ca
> 
> I notice Quebec is split in three here, including one zone that does not honor DST.
> 
> Most locations in Quebec do honor DST though, thus my recommendation for renaming "Eastern Time - Ontario - most locations" to "Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - most locations".
> 
> Hopefully this can be fixed in the next release. Not a big issue though.

You should speak to IANA.  They maintain these.

Dan