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diff --git a/timezone/southamerica b/timezone/southamerica index 43f73d3238..e2244cf237 100644 --- a/timezone/southamerica +++ b/timezone/southamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 8.19 +# @(#)southamerica 8.27 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -164,9 +164,22 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 - # From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22): # For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and # are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-09-05): +# As per message from Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz (Nicaragua), +# Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008. +# +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html +# </a> +# OR +# <a href="http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)"> +# http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish) +# </a> + Rule Arg 2007 only - Dec 30 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 2008 max - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 0 - -Rule Arg 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Arg 2008 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21): # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing @@ -294,14 +307,14 @@ Rule Arg 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S # back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I # mailed them personally and never got an answer). -# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-15): -# Until there's better information, asssume San Luis was like San Juan -# rather than Mendoza (since San Juan has a simpler DST history). - +# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): # Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks & Pottenger through 1992, # from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that -# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, but we -# haven't verified this yet so for now we'll keep it a single region. +# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which +# was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll +# keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the +# other 5 subregions. + # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -316,14 +329,12 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), # Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), -# San Luis (SL), La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) +# La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) # # Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified: # - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07. # - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29. # - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04. -# - San Luis switched to -4:00 on 1990-03-14, then to -3:00 on 1990-10-15, -# then to -4:00 on 1991-03-01, then to -3:00 on 1991-06-01. # - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01, # then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26. # @@ -425,10 +436,13 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 - -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 1 - -4:00 - WART 1991 May 7 - -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 - -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1990 + -3:00 1:00 ARST 1990 Mar 14 + -4:00 - WART 1990 Oct 15 + -4:00 1:00 WARST 1991 Mar 1 + -4:00 - WART 1991 Jun 1 + -3:00 - ART 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 1:00 WARST 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Jan 21 @@ -540,12 +554,86 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00: # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975 +# From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24): +# ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario +# Oficial da Uniao"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones, +# effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows: +# +# a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the +# part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the +# timezone UTC+4 +# b) The whole Para state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just +# part of it, as was before. +# +# This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that +# proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying +# programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone +# UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections +# were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This +# change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June, +# 1913. + +# From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24): +# Just correcting the URL: +# <a href="https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=3Ddo&secao=3D1&pagina=3D1&data=3D25/04/2008"> +# https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=3Ddo&secao=3D1&pagina=3D1&data=3D25/04/2008 +# </a> +# +# As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco +# timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall +# be created to represent the the west side of the Para State. I +# suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most +# important/populated city in the affected area. +# +# This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to +# the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4. + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24): +# This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map. +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php +# </a> +# +# - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones-eliminating time zone UTC- 05 +# (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT- 04) - western +# part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC- 03 (from UTC -04). + # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10): # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from # <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html"> # Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil # </a>. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29): +# As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late +# yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and +# it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on +# past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that +# the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year. +# +# It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html +# +# An official page about it: +# <a href="http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722"> +# http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722 +# </a> +# Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed +# by going to +# <a href="http://www.mme.gov.br/first>" +# http://www.mme.gov.br/first +# </a> +# +# One example link that works directly: +# <a href="http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54"> +# http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54 +# (Portuguese) +# </a> +# +# We have a written a short article about it as well: +# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html"> +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html +# </a> + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01) # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm">21,896</a> (1932-01-10) @@ -662,13 +750,13 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. -# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a> +# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,399</a> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. -# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a> +# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. -# <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a> +# <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a> Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif">5,539</a> (2005-09-19), # adopted by the same states as before. @@ -677,17 +765,16 @@ Rule Brazil 2005 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 S # adopted by the same states as before. Rule Brazil 2006 only - Nov 5 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2007 only - Feb 25 0:00 0 - -# (Decree number not yet known) -# http://www.brasil.gov.br/noticias/ultimas_noticias/horario_verao070920/ -# (2007-09-20) after a heads-up from Steffen Thorsen: -Rule Brazil 2007 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif">6,212</a> (2007-09-26), +# adopted by the same states as before. +Rule Brazil 2007 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2008 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2008 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST: # DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP. # For dates after mid-2008, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # # Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE) @@ -713,6 +800,13 @@ Zone America/Belem -3:13:56 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1988 Sep 12 -3:00 - BRT # +# west Para (PA) +# West Para includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, Oriximina, and Santarem. +Zone America/Santarem -3:38:48 - LMT 1914 + -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 + -4:00 - AMT 2008 Jun 24 00:00 + -3:00 - BRT +# # Maranhao (MA), Piaui (PI), Ceara (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN), # Paraiba (PB) Zone America/Fortaleza -2:34:00 - LMT 1914 @@ -775,8 +869,7 @@ Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # -# west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO) -# West Para includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, Oriximina, and Santarem. +# Rondonia (RO) Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12 -4:00 - AMT @@ -803,13 +896,14 @@ Zone America/Eirunepe -4:39:28 - LMT 1914 -5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12 -5:00 - ACT 1993 Sep 28 -5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1994 Sep 22 - -5:00 - ACT + -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 00:00 + -4:00 - AMT # # Acre (AC) Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 -5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12 - -5:00 - ACT - + -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 00:00 + -4:00 - AMT # Chile @@ -856,7 +950,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm # </a>. -# From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05): +# From Jose Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05): # ... # You could see the announces of the change on # <a href="http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm"> |