Time zones are a funny thing, but no one was laughing when the clocks changed (or didn’t) this November 1st in Canada. As Eric Cai explains, parts British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and parts of Ontario have decided to adopt permanent Daylight Saving Time this year. This change covers nearly a third of Canada’s population. (British Colombia led the pack here—which I mentioned in my post on the whimsy of the Time Zone Database.)
Microsoft calendars have not coped well with the new transitions (or rather, lack of them) and neither have cells phones, leading to chaos in scheduling across time zones. Recommended work-arounds for affected users include setting your time zone to Bogotá, Colombia.
Somehow, this new temporal regime has also resulted in a part of British Colombia (on the West coast) observing the same time as a part of Florida (on the East coast).
The only thing worse than changing the clocks once per year is suddenly not changing them, apparently.