Paul Eggert wrote: > If anyone has contacts with the Manitoba government that could help speed up > that process, it'd be appreciated.
Although I am employed by the Government of Manitoba, I do not have any direct contact with the Premier’s or the Lieutenant Governor’s offices. I am also anxiously awaiting the OiC to make this change official. I have heard rumours that an Order will come out sometime this week, but nothing more solid than that. However, speaking ONLY as a citizen living in Manitoba, I see a problem with Tim Parenti’s commit cd70627 to eggert/tz. While CDT and EST are the same thing mathematically, they are vastly different things linguistically, legally, socially and politically. From <theory.html>, “Use abbreviations that are in common use among English-speakers […] CST/CDT/CWT/CPT Central [North America] […]”. CDT is the abbreviation in common use here in English; I have never heard anyone refer to local Manitoba time as EST during CDT. The published material from the government so far all refers to permanent Daylight Savings Time, and the expectation is that we’ll be on CDT for the foreseeable future, not EST. If the Order in Council (which I expect) explicitly refers to “Central Daylight Time”, then “EST” might also be legally inaccurate, but we’ll have to wait and see. If the 2023 Act gets Proclaimed instead, then it’ll be a new time zone “Manitoba Standard Time”, which also does not abbreviate to EST, it will abbreviate – with the force of law – to “MBT”. We’ll all find out which route the government will take shortly, and everyone hopes they do it sooner rather than later! -Adam Adam Thompson Consultant, Infrastructure Services [MERLIN] 100 - 135 Innovation Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 6A8 (204) 977-6824 or 1-800-430-6404 (MB only) 💻https://www.merlin.mb.ca 🤳Follow MERLIN on Social Media
