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diff --git a/timezone/southamerica b/timezone/southamerica index ca6c492..3a61cd7 100644 --- a/timezone/southamerica +++ b/timezone/southamerica @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 8.6 +# @(#)southamerica 8.1 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-07-07): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). +# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for -# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, +# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. # # Earlier editions of these tables used the North American style (e.g. ARST and # ARDT for Argentine Standard and Daylight Time), but the following quote @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina # (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute) +# +# Shanks stops after 1992-03-01; go with Otero. Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # @@ -148,12 +150,12 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # It's Law No. 7,210. This change is due to a public power emergency, so for # now we'll assume it's for this year only. # -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (2002-01-22): # <a href="http://www.spicasc.net/horvera.html"> -# Hora de verano para la Republica Argentina (2003-06-08) +# Hora de verano para la Republica Argentina (2000-10-01) # </a> says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31 # to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25. Go with this more-precise value -# over Shanks & Pottenger. +# over Shanks. # # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05): # These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state: @@ -200,8 +202,8 @@ 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 -# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks & Pottenger through 1992, -# from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that +# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks through 1992, from +# the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks says 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. # @@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 # Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), # San Luis (SL), La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) # -# Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified: +# Shanks also makes 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. @@ -428,7 +430,11 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # 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>. +# </a> (2001-09-20, in Portuguese). +# The official site for all decrees, including those not related to time, is +# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/principal_ano.htm"> +# Presidencia da Republica, Subchefia para Assuntos Juridicos, Decretos +# </a> (in Portuguese). # 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) @@ -544,7 +550,7 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif">3,916</a> # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2001 max - 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> Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S @@ -556,14 +562,10 @@ Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S 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. -Rule Brazil 2005 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 S -# Decree <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2006/Decreto/D5920.htm">5,920</a> -# (2006-10-03), adopted by the same states as before. -Rule Brazil 2006 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Brazil 2007 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Brazil 2005 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-2007, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses +# For dates after mid-2006, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. @@ -704,64 +706,53 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later, # on April 3, (one-time change). -# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08): -# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-04): +# I came across another article in "La Tercera" about Chilean DST. +# <http://www.tercera.cl/diario/2000/10/13/t-extras.html> +# It clearly confirms my earlier suggestion, that DST begins at 22:00 +# on Easter Island.... But it also seems to be saying that the +# observance of DST in Chile began in 1966, rather than 1969 as +# ... [Shanks] has it.... +# +# My translation: +# +# "The Chilean Army has announced that summer time will begin tomorrow, +# Saturday, October 14 in continental Chile, insular Chile, and +# Antarctica, as provided by Supreme Decree 25 of January 11, 1966. +# By the preceding, official time in continental Chile and Chilean +# Antarctic, and official time in Western Insular Chile, which applies +# to Easter Island and Sala y Gomez Island, will be set forward at +# midnight and at 22:00, respectively, by 20 minutes." -# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-08): -# I think that there are some obvious mistakes in the suggested link -# from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66 says that GMT-4 -# ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at 1990-09-15 -# (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16 respectively), but -# anyhow it clears up some doubts too. +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# Go with this article in preference to Shanks's 1969 date for modern DST. +# Assume this rule has been used since DST was introduced in the islands. -# The following data are from <http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm> -# (2006-09-20), transcribed by Jesper Norgaard Welen. +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-24): +# <http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm> gives many details that +# disagree with the following table, but we haven't had time to compare them. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Chile 1927 1932 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Chile 1942 only - Jun 1 4:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1942 only - Aug 1 5:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1946 only - Jul 15 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1946 only - Sep 1 3:00u 0:00 - -Rule Chile 1947 only - Apr 1 4:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1968 only - Nov 3 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1969 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1969 only - Nov 23 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1970 only - Mar 29 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1971 only - Mar 14 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1973 only - Sep 30 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1967 1998 - 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 - -# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; +# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1990-09) says 1990-09-16; (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890 - -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time - -5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time - -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time - -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time - -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time - -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time +Zone America/Santiago -4:42:40 - LMT 1890 + -4:42:40 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time + -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep # Chile Time -4:00 Chile CL%sT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri -7:17:28 - MMT 1932 Sep # Mataveri Mean Time - -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Jan 18 21:00 # Easter I Time + -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT # # Sala y Gomez Island is like Pacific/Easter. @@ -769,9 +760,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri # San Felix, and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago. # Colombia +# Shanks specifies 24:00 for 1992 transition times; go with IATA, +# as it seems implausible to change clocks at midnight New Year's Eve. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule CO 1992 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S -Rule CO 1993 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - +Rule CO 1992 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule CO 1992 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 Mar 13 -4:56:20 - BMT 1914 Nov 23 # Bogota Mean Time @@ -780,21 +773,10 @@ Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 Mar 13 # no information; probably like America/Bogota # Curacao -# -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at -# -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that -# Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from -# 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. The former is dubious, since S&P also say -# Saba Island has been like Curacao. -# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. -# -# By July 2007 Curacao and St Maarten are planned to become -# associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; -# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the -# Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones -# though, as far as we know. -# +# Shanks says that Bottom and Oranjestad have been at -4:00 since +# standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that Kralendijk and Rincon +# used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. +# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Curacao -4:35:44 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad -4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time @@ -811,9 +793,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno # Falklands -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except -# the IATA gives 1996-09-08. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): +# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks and the IATA agree except +# the IATA gives 1996-09-08. Go with Shanks. # From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22) # via Jesper Norgaard: @@ -896,9 +878,9 @@ Zone America/Guyana -3:52:40 - LMT 1915 Mar # Georgetown -4:00 - GYT # Paraguay -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are from 01:00 -> 02:00, -# and autumn transitions are from 00:00 -> 23:00. Go with pre-1999 +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# Shanks (1999) says that spring transitions are from 01:00 -> 02:00, +# and autumn transitions are from 00:00 -> 23:00. Go with earlier # editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Para 1975 1988 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S @@ -929,10 +911,13 @@ Rule Para 1996 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 - # year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the # clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March. # +# From Jesper Norgaard (2001-03-06) [an official URL saying similar things]: +# http://gateway.abc.com.py:8000/pub/pag04.mbr/artic?FHA=2001-03-03-02.24.52.900592 +# Rule Para 1996 2001 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks. Rule Para 1997 only - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - -# Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but +# Shanks says 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27). Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28): @@ -946,9 +931,7 @@ Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S # There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made # a timezone rule change in autumn 2004. # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): -# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) -# From Carlos Raul Perasso via Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-13) -# <http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf> +# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) <http://www.labor.com.py/noticias.asp?id=27> Rule Para 2004 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 2005 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - @@ -966,8 +949,8 @@ Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 # When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon. # -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition. Assume 1986 was like 1987. +# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-02): +# Shanks doesn't have this transition. Assume 1986 was like 1987. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Peru 1938 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S @@ -978,7 +961,7 @@ Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1990 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1990 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks. Rule Peru 1994 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1011,23 +994,23 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Uruguay # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules. -# From Shanks & Pottenger: +# From Shanks: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks. Rule Uruguay 1923 only - Oct 2 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1924 1926 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1933 1935 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS -# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 1 0:00 & 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman. +# Shanks gives 1935 Apr 1 0:00 and 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman. Rule Uruguay 1934 1936 - Mar Sat>=25 23:30s 0 - Rule Uruguay 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1937 1941 - Mar lastSun 0:00 0 - -# Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks. Rule Uruguay 1937 1940 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS # Whitman gives 1941 Oct 24 - 1942 Mar 27, 1942 Dec 14 - 1943 Apr 13, -# and 1943 Apr 13 ``to present time''; go with Shanks & Pottenger. -Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0:30 HS -Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - +# and 1943 Apr 13 ``to present time''; go with Shanks. +Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Jan 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Dec 14 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1943 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1959 only - May 24 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1053,7 +1036,7 @@ Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Dec 11 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Mar 12 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Oct 29 0:00 1:00 S -# Shanks & Pottenger say no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2, +# Shanks says no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2, # and that 1992/3's DST was from 10-25 to 03-01. Go with IATA. Rule Uruguay 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1074,10 +1057,6 @@ Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 - # 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2. Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 2006 only - Mar 12 2:00 0 - -# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-06): -# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF -Rule Uruguay 2006 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT |