A typical abbreviation for Old Fort Bay: Old Ft. Bay (or less commonly used: Old Frt. Bay)
Time Zone: Old Fort Bay lies in the Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) and does not observe daylight saving time. The time zone in French: AST- Heure Normale de l'Atlantique (HNA).
Note: If you travel east from Old Fort Bay (for example, toward L'Anse au Clair (NL)), you will leave Atlantic Standard Time and cross into the Newfoundland Time Zone (NST/NDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does.
When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 418 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 367 or 581. New phone numbers in the Old Fort Bay area will be assigned with one of these codes: 418, 367 or 581. As a result, placing a call in the Old Fort Bay area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).