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The Government of Canada specifies the ISO 8601 format for all-numeric dates (YYYY-MM-DD; for example, 2025-02-21). [2] It recommends writing the time using the 24-hour clock (11:36) for maximum clarity in both Canadian English and Canadian French, [3] but also allows the 12-hour clock (11:36 a.m.) in English. [4]
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CHU can be practically unusable in most of Western Canada, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories, for significant stretches of time. U.S. stations WWV and WWVH are the fallback in Western Canada. In the high Arctic, however, both the U.S. shortwave time stations and CHU become essentially unusable or unreliable.
The National Research Council (NRC) maintains Canada's official time through the use of atomic clocks. [3] The official time is specified in legislation passed by the individual provinces. In Quebec it is based on coordinated universal time. [4] The other provinces use mean solar time.
Some regions utilize 24-hour time notation in casual speech as well, such as regions that speak German, French, or Romanian, though this is less common overall; other countries that utilize the 24-hour clock for displaying time physically may use the 12-hour clock more often in verbal communication. [citation needed]
This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the most commonly used time notation in the world today, [A] and is used by the international standard ISO 8601. [1] A number of countries, particularly English speaking, use the 12-hour clock, or a mixture of the 24- and 12-hour time systems.
In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the entire year.
Given that Petit-Mécatina is no longer part of Minganie, and given that it is entirely east of 63°W, a careful interpretation of 2006 time act will place Petit-Mécatina on permanent Atlantic Standard Time (AST) from 2010 onwards. This may be considered moot because Petit-Mécatina is a vast wilderness with no infrastructure and no inhabitants.