From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   >>Another is that our time zones probably aren't correct in the first   
   >>place.  If most of us (particularly along the borders) shifted one time   
   >>zone, we could keep the same time year-round. . . .   
   >   
   >. . . especially if we used 1/2 hour time zones, but no one likes those.   
   >Isn't Labrador still in one? I think that's the only one remaining in   
   >the western hemisphere.   
      
   Newfoundland is GMT-3:30 (NST).  Most of Labrador is GMT-4:00 (AST),   
   the same as Nova Scotia, other than a little bit of eastern Labrador   
   closest to Newfoundland which is on Newfoundland time.  We're not   
   talking about a lot of people here, since the total population of   
   Labrador is only about 29,000.  (The rest of Newfoundland is about   
   500,000.)   
      
   Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949.  Before that it was a   
   separate dominion, and it set its own time zone.  Apparently the   
   government tried to switch to AST in 1963 but the people wouldn't do   
   it.   
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