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-# @(#)southamerica 7.52
+# @(#)southamerica 7.54
# 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
@@ -186,6 +186,20 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
# contains a contradiction. I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
# date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
# Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
+# The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
+# back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
+# new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
+# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
+#
+# From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
+# San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
+# Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st. It changed back to UTC-03:00
+# at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
+# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
+# 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 through 1992, from
# the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks says that
@@ -261,8 +275,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
-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 Jun 1
- -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
+ -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31
+ -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25
-3:00 - ART
#
# Jujuy (JY)
@@ -306,7 +320,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
-3:00 - ART 2004 May 23
- -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17
+ -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26
-3:00 - ART
#
# Chubut (CH)
@@ -420,6 +434,11 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890
# the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
# (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
+# From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
+# It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
+# modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
+# with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
+
# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
# The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html">
@@ -556,11 +575,15 @@ Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
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>
-Rule Brazil 2003 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+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>
+Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S
# The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST:
-# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
+# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
#
-# For dates after mid-2004, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses
+Rule Brazil 2005 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+# For dates after mid-2005, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses
# and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
@@ -648,7 +671,8 @@ Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 - LMT 1914
# Mato Grosso (MT)
Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914
-4:00 Brazil AM%sT 2003 Sep 24
- -4:00 - AMT
+ -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 4
+ -4:00 Brazil AM%sT
#
# west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO)
# West Para includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, Oriximina, and Santarem.
@@ -1029,6 +1053,11 @@ Rule Uruguay 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 -
+# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
+# The uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
+# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm
+Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 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