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@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@
 #
 # Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
 # or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
 # questions.
 #
+# tzdb data for South America and environs
+
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
 # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to

@@ -413,11 +415,11 @@
 # https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
 # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
 # standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
 # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
 # plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
-# setting for time stamps past 2038.
+# setting for timestamps past 2038.
 
 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 #
 # Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
 Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT      1894 Oct 31

@@ -946,10 +948,18 @@
 # According to many media sources, next year's DST start in Brazil will move to
 # the first Sunday of November, and it will stay like that for the years after.
 # ... https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-delays-dst-2018.html
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-20):
 # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/D9242.htm
+#
+# From Fábio Gomes (2018-10-04):
+# The Brazilian president just announced a new change on this year DST.
+# It was scheduled to start on November 4th and it was changed to November 18th.
+# From Rodrigo Brüning Wessler (2018-10-15):
+# The Brazilian government just announced that the change in DST was
+# canceled....  Maybe the president Michel Temer also woke up one hour
+# earlier today. :)
 Rule    Brazil  2018    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    -
 Rule    Brazil  2023    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 Rule    Brazil  2024    2025    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 Rule    Brazil  2026    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 Rule    Brazil  2027    2033    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -

@@ -1252,10 +1262,28 @@
 # The above says the Magallanes change expires 2019-05-11 at 24:00,
 # so in theory, they will revert to -04/-03 after that, which means
 # they will switch from -03 to -04 one hour after Santiago does that day.
 # For now, assume that they will not revert.
 
+# From Juan Correa (2018-08-13):
+# As of moments ago, the Ministry of Energy in Chile has announced the new
+# schema for DST. ...  Announcement in video (in Spanish):
+# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029000399129374720
+# From Yonathan Dossow (2018-08-13):
+# The video says "first Saturday of September", we all know it means Sunday at
+# midnight.
+# From Tim Parenti (2018-08-13):
+# Translating the captions on the video at 0:44-0:55, "We want to announce as
+# Government that from 2019, Winter Time will be increased to 5 months, between
+# the first Saturday of April and the first Saturday of September."
+# At 2:08-2:20, "The Magallanes region will maintain its current time, as
+# decided by the citizens during 2017, but our Government will promote a
+# regional dialogue table to gather their opinion on this matter."
+# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029009354001973248
+# "We will keep the new time policy unchanged for at least the next 4 years."
+# So we extend the new rules on Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time indefinitely.
+
 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 Rule    Chile   1927    1931    -       Sep      1      0:00    1:00    -
 Rule    Chile   1928    1932    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
 Rule    Chile   1968    only    -       Nov      3      4:00u   1:00    -
 Rule    Chile   1969    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -

@@ -1285,12 +1313,14 @@
 Rule    Chile   2010    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  3:00u   0       -
 Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       May     Sun>=2  3:00u   0       -
 Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       Aug     Sun>=16 4:00u   1:00    -
 Rule    Chile   2012    2014    -       Apr     Sun>=23 3:00u   0       -
 Rule    Chile   2012    2014    -       Sep     Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    -
-Rule    Chile   2016    max     -       May     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
-Rule    Chile   2016    max     -       Aug     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    -
+Rule    Chile   2016    2018    -       May     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
+Rule    Chile   2016    2018    -       Aug     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    -
+Rule    Chile   2019    max     -       Apr     Sun>=2  3:00u   0       -
+Rule    Chile   2019    max     -       Sep     Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    -
 # IATA SSIM anomalies: (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 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
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