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The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the meridian 52 degrees and 30 arcminutes west of the Greenwich Observatory. It is observed solely in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Newfoundland Time Zone is the only active time zone with a half-hour offset from UTC in the Americas.
All of Newfoundland and southern Labrador, which observes UTC−03:30 as its standard time zone, observed UTC−01:30. [25] This only happened in 1988 and the province now only adjusts its time by one hour for daylight saving time.
Labrador (/ l æ b r ə ˈ d ɔːr /) is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. [2] It is the primarily continental portion of the province and constitutes 71% of the province's area but is home to only 6% of its population.
[9] [10] [11] St. John's, Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador), also used DST before 1918, but the province itself did not become part of Canada until 1949. [ 11 ] In practice, since the late 1960s, DST across Canada has been closely or completely synchronized with its observance in the United States to facilitate consistent economic ...
Newfoundland and Labrador [b] is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 km 2 (156,453 sq mi).
UTC−03:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −03:30. It is used in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador as Newfoundland Time Zone . [ 1 ]
The Labrador Peninsula, also called Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, [1] [2] is a large peninsula in eastern Canada.It is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, Strait of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the southeast.
In 2020, the Nunatsiavut government partnering with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) funded a pre-feasibility study which determined the current airstrip was unsuitable for upgrades, but identified a potential site to develop about seven kilometres southwest of Nain. [6] [7]