Talk:Daylight Saving Act of 1917

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—Yamara ✉ 17:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Time/Assessment|WikiProject Time assessment rating]] comment 

message: I played around with the idea of adding that Newfoundland was the only country ever to follow daylight fully in North America but I'm not 100% yet that Newfoundland did prior to joining Canada (there could've been some holdouts though I doubt it) and I think that Mexico and several Caribbean countries follow daylight time throughout their region. Iainsona 14:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Possible problem for us : http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html suggests that Nova Scotia and Manitoba adopted daylight savings time in 1916 but doesn't state whether this was by an act of legislation or just following suit behind European countries. Newfoundland is still the first nation in North America to have adopted it throughout its territory if either holds true. Iainsona 14:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They were provinces of Canada, would that have any bearing on the ability enact legislation? Newfoundland was an Independent nation at the time and brought forward legislation. HJKeats 15:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Canada is a federal country with a great deal of responsibilities alloted to their respective provincial legislatures; currently for the 2007 change to conform to the new U.S. change, all the provinces are having to ratify the decision to change individually and severally. Not all of them have yet. As far as the Nova Scotian government's official website, the only law I've been able to find is from 1989 : http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/legc/statutes/timedefn.htm - the Time Definition Act of 1989 but it makes reference that this is "CHAPTER 469 OF THE REVISED STATUTES, 1989" which suggests that something might have existed before but it doesn't say when or how. Iainsona 15:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nova Scotia and Manitoba earlier? 

message: I can't find one. For the current one, there's Newfoundland_and_Labrador_House_of_Assembly and for the Colonial Building itself where the Legislative Assembly sat there's Colonial_Building. Can you find anything and if these are the only two, which would be better to link to do you think? Iainsona 14:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like fodder for another article :-)... We can use the Colonial Building if you wish for now. HJKeats 15:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internal link for Newfoundland's Legislative Assembly prior to Confederation 

message: Hi, and thanks for the kind words on the latest DYK from NL. It's always a treat to see your work getting recognized in the DYK section, the articles there are very enlightening and some are very well done in such a short period of 5 days. We hopefully will be up to your challenge to produce more DYK about NL and its people. There isn't any shortage of good material for sure from this very interesting and historical province. Again thanks for posting it on the front page. Kudos also has to go to my collaborator Iainsona, another DYK, he’s only 5 days himself as a Wikipedian. Thanks,  HJKeats 01:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Echoing the thanks to Samir which I should have expressed much earlier. Pardon my lack of etiquette. Iainsona 06:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks to [[User:Samir_(The_Scope)|'''Samir''']]   <small>[[User_talk:Samir_(The_Scope)|धर्म]]</small> for placing the article at DYK