Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us (Wolf Paul) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Canada - U.S. communications Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 89 22:15:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 197, message 7 of 10 In TELECOM-Digest Vol.9, No.193, cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: >When I was recently in Minnesota, someone from Canada told me that >Canada has daylight time just like U.S., and changed it along with >U.S.'s change to first (not last) Sunday in April. >(This isn't directly phone-related, but it backs up the idea that >Canada should NOT get a separate country code.) Excuse me, but time zones and daylight savings time have very little to do with country codes. I can see two reasons for separate country codes, one more valid than the other: (a) from certain nationalistic perspectives it rankles that Canada is the only major country which does not have its own country code and has to coordinate its internal telecommunications affairs with entities in the U.S. (I don't hold that view, but then I am neither Canadian nor very nationalistically inclined); and (b) Giving Canada a separate country code frees up a few area codes for use in the U.S., and **lots of area codes** for use in Canada (this one I consider the more valid reason). But time zones and DST are irrelevant -- in Western Europe, most countries are in the same time zone but have different country codes, even though most of them also switch to and from DST on the same dates. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: {texbell, killer, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp DOMAIN: wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com