On Fri, 2 Oct 2026 at 21:57, James Bellaire via tz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that we are within a month of the traditional end of DST and > Microsoft and Google (and others) have updated for the western Canada > changes we should start seeing antidotal references to time While it's still early, one such reference I've seen in the last day or so is from the CBC. Announcing their schedule for *Hockey Night in Canada* and new partnership with the PWHL after their broadcast deal with the NHL expired, they've listed the times of each planned broadcast in ET and PCT (though one April conversion seems to be incorrect): https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/cbc-hockey-night-in-canada-pwhl-schedule-revealed-october-2-9.7366402 I briefly leafed through the sports and television sections of the *Vancouver Sun* in hopes of finding a time reference but so far only saw an "ET/PT" that may have come from a syndicated article. I've also seen a small handful of BC streamers start to use "PCT" but it would be much harder to differentiate those who do not from those elsewhere in the Pacific time zone. As for what I'm doing, for one of my North American calls with cross-border participants, I've started rephrasing reminders based on participants' general areas/cities (e.g, "8:30pm NY/Tor, 7:30pm Chi, 5:30pm SF/Vanc") so I can easily separate SF and Vancouver later. I'd imagine some professional bodies that offer international webinars and the like may start doing something similar, if they acknowledge the difference at all. The Canadian Football League, now nearing the end of its season, doesn't list any of the new zones but instead appears to have modified the interpretation of certain existing zones (though not all): https://cfl.ca/schedule The Grey Cup championship game scheduled for 16 November is listed at "6pm ET", but also "6pm CT" (reasonable enough for Winnipeg), "5pm MT" and "5pm CST", but inconsistently "3pm PT" (which is not right for Vancouver). Meanwhile, Canada's *Weather Network* has a video explainer out which gets into the nomenclature weeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7butFyhi4 It asserts northwestern Ontario will fall back, which is maybe true enough in a *de jure* sense at present, though that is seeming less and less like the *de facto* likelihood. It also treats the potential Nunavik change as final and, while mentioning how Saskatchewan fits in, makes no mention of Yukon's recent practice. And while it states correctly that you'll "gain an hour" on a short drive from Vancouver to Seattle, the on-screen animation gets the direction of the time difference wrong. The video ends with a wry "I hope that clears things up", and the top comment reads "no it does not clear it up". On Sat, 3 Oct 2026 at 06:39, James Bellaire via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > They, like we, are probably waiting for the dust to settle on this > year's changes. tzdata is up to date with the official changes so far. I > suspect NRCC didn't want to make five map changes this year (not > including the two that were each reversed a week later). > > Silly season should be over by ... December? > One can hope! (Of course, by then, it's entirely possible that any of these regions decide they don't like the shift and begin work on shifting back…) -- Tim Parenti
