[OmniOS-discuss] Time zone for Quebec, Canada

[Hugh McIntyre]

On 10/01/2014 10:43 AM, Simon Boulet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
>
>> You should speak to IANA.  They maintain these.
>
> What do you want me to ask them? They seems to have it right.
>
>  From here: http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/Multizones.html#ca
>
> You can read:
> *Québec Eastern time, UTC-5, DST  Most of Québec*, West of 63° W. This
> includes the part of the Minganie region that is East of 63° W and it
> includes the whole of Île d'Anticosti.
>
> Other sources also confirms this. Most of Quebec honors DST.
>
> I don't know how OmniOS pulls the data from IANA, but somehow you're
> pulling it wrong. Somehow OmniOS seems to think most of Quebec is NOT DST.

Indeed, from the latest zoneinfo code at iana.org:

CA      +5125-05707     America/Blanc-Sablon    Atlantic Standard Time - 
Quebec - Lower North Shore
CA      +4339-07923     America/Toronto Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec 
- most locations
CA      +4901-08816     America/Nipigon Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec 
- places that did not observe DST 1967-1973

The latest Illumos sources (and also illumos-omnios) seems to have the 
same in usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab(.txt).

Does the installer use a different source file, or is the version of 
this file in omnios r151012 somehow older?

> Agree that's not a huge issue but it does make OmniOS installer a bit
> less enjoyable.
> If it's something that can easily be fixed that be great.

Hugh.