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Per this reference, the map should be changed to reflect Yukon considers itself on permanent Pacific Daylight Time. —Joeyconnick (talk) 06:57, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Joeyconnick, the reference you provided was for an April news release that was given five months prior to the legislation. The news release is not legally binding.
 * The official legislation passed in September 2020 does not say anything about Pacific Time or daylight saving; on the contrary it repeals the 1973 daylight saving legislation and then proceeds to simply redefine the UTC offset for Yukon's version of standard time.
 * i.e. the April news release and the September legislation are in complete conflict with each other.
 * This is a copy of the legislation:

YUKON CANADA ORDER-IN-COUNCIL 2020/125
 * The attached Yukon Standard Time Regulation is made.
 * The following orders are repealed, effective November 1, 2020:
 * (a) C.O. 1973/214;
 * (b) D.I.C. 2006/127.
 * Dated at Whitehorse, Yukon September 24,2020.
 * INTERPRETATION ACT
 * YUKON STANDARD TIME REGULATION
 * Standard time
 * 1 Standard time is to be reckoned as seven hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC-7).
 * Coming into force
 * 2 This Regulation comes into force on November 1, 2020.


 * Regardless, even if the government had tried to make the name Pacific Daylight Time official, I would only have shown it as a footnote.
 * Realistically nobody in the Yukon could use permanent Pacific Daylight Time on any electronic device because quite simply it is not a valid option.
 * Specifically:
 * Microsoft does not support permanent daylight saving.
 * The maintainers of the IANA time zone database never classify any time zone region as being on permanent daylight saving.
 * Permanent UTC-7 can be achieved, but it needs to be treated as permanent Mountain Standard Time.
 * Thus:
 * All Yukon residents using Microsoft Windows will need to place their computers on Mountain Time with daylight saving disabled.
 * All Yukon residents using Linux will start to notice the MST qualifier showing up in time stamps (if it has not started happening already).
 * Many Yukon residents may already have observed that weather forecasts and almanac data from Environment Canada are already showing times with the MST qualifier.
 * Yukon residents who use any form of computer or phone based calendaring application will need to set their calendars to operate in Mountain Standard Time.
 * In summary, there is no point in claiming that Yukon is observing permanent Pacific Daylight Saving time if (a) the legislation says otherwise and (b) the phones and computers don't support it.
 * MapGrid (talk) 05:43, 1 November 2020 (UTC)