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@@ -1235,10 +1235,19 @@ Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
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# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
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-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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+# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
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+# From the historical weather station records available at:
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+# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
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+# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
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+# likely to be the same across the island....
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+# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
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+# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
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+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
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# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
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# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
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-# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
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+# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
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+# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
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# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
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# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
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# this is a typo.
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Paul Eggert