Friday, November 02, 2007

Turning Back the Clocks







The United States government passed an energy bill on August 8/2005. It was part of an initiative to reduce energy consumption. The bill declared that daylight saving time in the United States should be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.
In Canada, daylight saving legislation is the responsibility of the provincial and territorial governments.
Twelve of the thirteen provincial and territorial governments updated the appropriate legislation in order to keep Canadian clocks in sync with US clocks.

The government of Saskatchewan neglected to update its time legislation... presumably because most of Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving. It would appear that the small areas of Saskatchewan that do observe daylight saving have adopted the extension even though the Saskatchewan time Act still has explicit references to the old daylight saving dates.

Bottom line is that all areas of Canada that observe daylight saving have adopted the new dates.

Daylight saving for 2007 started on March 11 and will end on November 4.

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