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diff --git a/timezone/southamerica b/timezone/southamerica index bfda827649..43f73d3238 100644 --- a/timezone/southamerica +++ b/timezone/southamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 8.12 +# @(#)southamerica 8.19 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours # from the International Date Line. Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28): +# DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted +# to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that +# it ended on March 3. +Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 - # # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01): # We just checked with our Sao Paulo office and they say the government of @@ -140,6 +144,30 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina. # We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21): +# A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST.... +# all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected. News reports like +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate +# that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to +# March, although exact rules are not given. +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-12-26) +# The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in +# the lower chamber too (Deputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against. +# By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to +# the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are +# clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval: +# <a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996"> +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996 +# </a> +# +# 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. +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 + # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21): # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing # its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night.... @@ -200,6 +228,76 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17): +# Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST +# as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008: +# +# Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del pais +# (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the +# country) +# <a href="http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel"> +# http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel +# </a> +# +# Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes +# (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay) +# <a href="http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/vernotae.asp?id_nota=253414"> +# http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/vernotae.asp?id_nota=253414 +# </a> +# +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html +# </a> + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-01-18): +# The page of the San Luis provincial government +# <a href="http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812"> +# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812 +# </a> +# confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz +# emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard +# time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also +# confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza +# refused to follow San Luis in this change. +# +# The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21.st at 0:00 +# hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need +# a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented +# independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in +# 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed). + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-01-25): +# Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis +# time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most +# important pages of 2008." +# +# You can use +# <a href="http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834"> +# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834 +# </a> +# instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis +# government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages +# from which the first one is identical to the above. + +# From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28): +# I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that +# province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008 +# (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back +# 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round +# (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now). +# +# So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San +# Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be +# America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's +# history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-( +# (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis +# 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). + # 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 @@ -214,7 +312,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), # Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), @@ -237,7 +335,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Tucuman (TM) Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -250,7 +348,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 13 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # La Rioja (LR) Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -263,7 +361,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # San Juan (SJ) Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -276,7 +374,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -290,7 +388,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -3:00 1:00 ARST 1992 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -303,7 +401,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Mendoza (MZ) Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -320,6 +418,20 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23 -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT +# +# San Luis (SL) +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 - ART 2004 May 31 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Jan 21 -3:00 - ART # # Santa Cruz (SC) @@ -331,7 +443,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF) Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -342,7 +454,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 30 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # Aruba # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -731,6 +843,26 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # America/Santiago. The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data are dubious, # but we have no other source. +# From German Poo-Caaman~o (2008-03-03): +# Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks. This +# is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago +# and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter) +# The Supreme Decree is located at +# <a href="http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf"> +# http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf +# </a> +# and the instructions for 2008 are located in: +# <a href="http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm"> +# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm +# </a>. + +# From José 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"> +# http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm +# </a>. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Chile 1927 1932 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - @@ -761,7 +893,11 @@ Rule Chile 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time, +# which is used below in specifying the transition. +Rule Chile 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 2009 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1107,19 +1243,17 @@ Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 # Venezuela # -# From Kiraz Janicke (2007-09-25), in -# http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2645: -# The proposal ... involves turning the clock back half an hour from -# +4.00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), to +4.30GMT, the time zone -# Venezuela had until December 31, 1964, when the current time zone -# was adopted. The change was due to take place on September 17 and -# then on September 24, but has since been postponed until December -# 31, to allow for compliance with international organizations, such -# as the International Office of Weights and Measures. +# From John Stainforth (2007-11-28): +# ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has +# been brought forward to 2007-12-09. The official announcement was +# published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la Republica Bolivariana +# de Venezuela, numero 38.819" (official document for all laws or +# resolution publication) +# http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890 -4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time? -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time - -4:00 - VET 2008 + -4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 03:00 -4:30 - VET |