Q for Canadians: Newfoundland Time (misc.)

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Hi to my neighbors to the North! Help me out here, eh? How come Newfoundland has such a different time zone? i.e. if it's 6 p.m. Eastern Time, and 7 p.m. Atlantic Time, why is Newfoundland 7:30 p.m.? I just found this out, and find it puzzling, and kind of charming, actually! Is it confusing to folks? It's the half-hour part of it that is so interesting! (So much to learn about Canada and I've lived practically next door to it for my whole life!)

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), September 28, 2000

Answers

Okay, maybe I'm just being shunned! But I still would like to know the answer to this one! Maybe the Americans can answer it then?

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), September 29, 2000.

I haven't the foggiest as to why Nfld does this -- except that maybe they're from Newfoundland....

If you think that's odd -- the ENTIRE PROVINCE of Saskatchewan refuses to switch to daylight savings time. Every other province does -- but the folks here won't --never have, never will, I think. The VERY agriculturally based population think it's ridiculous to change time to fit in with the rest of the country. So, in summer there is a different time change than in winter between Saskatchewan and everywhere else in the country. Try explaining that to my relatives in Ontario who refuse to consider this when telephoning on a Sunday morning!!!

-- Tracy (trimmer@westzone.com), September 29, 2000.


This is one of those things that we accept as a truth. My assumptions are Newfoundland is a half hour behind because it's in a different time zone. Sounds peculiar but Newfoundland is just that much more East(but not far enough east to get a whole hour jump on us in the rest of the Atlantic) and daybreak happens there first on our continent. Don't feel bad the time thing is the butt of a few jokes up here.

-- Terri (terri@tallships.ca), September 30, 2000.

Tracey, the states of Arizona and Hawaii don't go on Dayligh Saving Time either. I can understand that for Hawaii -- in the summer their daylight lasts 13 hours, and in the winter, 11 hours -- not much point for them to change!

-- Joy Froelich (dragnfly@chorus.net), October 01, 2000.

Having lived in Alaska for 12 years (moved away last fall), I can say that Alaska does go on daylight savings time. They use to not bother with the change because whether you are on daylight savings time or not, the interior of Alaska gets dark in the winter. However, they canged that years ago to be compatible with the rest of the US.

Don't know about Hawaii.

-- Tammy Hall (gregandtammy@interbel.net), October 01, 2000.



Sheepish, I did find the answer to your question but darn if I can even cut and past to this place. I used www.google.com as a search engine. When you get to that search engine, type in "newfoundland time zone" On page two of the search engine find a web page called daylight. It has all the answers to your questions. Somewhat interesting. Not a lot of help but the answer is there. If anyone else wants to help me out here it sure would be appreciated.

-- Bill (sticky@2sides.tape), October 04, 2000.

Bill, thanks for your info. I did go to google and found some websites. However, I didn't find the "daylight" one. I will keep looking....maybe I'm too tired of reading to find it. Thanks again!

-- sheepish (rborgo@gte.net), October 04, 2000.

We tried Daylight Savings Time here in Arizona. Tried to save up summer sunshine, but must have forgot where we put it as we don't do that anymore.

-- (Stalkingbull007@AOL.com), October 04, 2000.

Pakistan & Sri Lanka (and probably Bangladesh, too) are 1/2 hour off of India, and Nepal is 15 minutes off of Indian Standard (some say Stretchable) Time. Or is it India is off from the rest of the world -- I think it is India which is out of synch. China, unless it has changed, has only ONE time zone, though it is wide enough for about 5 or 6 time zones. politics, politics.

-- snoozy (allen@oz.net), October 08, 2000.

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