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# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
# 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).
+# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
# 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).
#
+# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
+# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
+# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
+#
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
# of the IATA's data after 1990.
@@ -402,25 +406,15 @@
# <a href="http://www.sanluis.gov.ar">
# www.sanluis.gov.ar
# <a/>
# is the official page for the Province Government).
#
-# There's also a note in only one of the major national papers (La Nación) at
-# <a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912">
+# There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
-# </a>
#
-# The press release says:
-# (...) anunció que el próximo domingo a las 00:00 los puntanos deberán
-# atrasar una hora sus relojes.
-#
-# A partir de entonces, San Luis establecerá el huso horario propio de
-# la Provincia. De esta manera, durante el periodo del calendario anual
-# 2009, el cambio horario quedará comprendido entre las 00:00 del tercer
-# domingo de marzo y las 24:00 del segundo sábado de octubre.
-# Quick&dirty translation
-# (...) announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
+# The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
+# ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
# inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
#
# Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
# during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
# in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
@@ -478,10 +472,13 @@
# yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
# UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
# rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
# stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
+# Milne says Cordoba time was -4:16:48.2. Round to the nearest second.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
-4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time
@@ -833,13 +830,13 @@
# http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
# </a>
# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
# There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
-# I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandão at
+# I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at
# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/">http://pcdsh01.on.br/</a> the
-# oficial agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
+# official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
# still in force.
# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
# It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
# time.
@@ -1264,13 +1261,17 @@
# 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
# of the same day.
# b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
# at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
# 01:00 on September 2.
-#
-# Note that...this is yet another "temporary" change that will be reevaluated
-# AGAIN in 2013.
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
+# According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
+# they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned. They
+# hope to save energy. The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
+# start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
+# http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
# NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
# 'antarctica' file.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -1309,14 +1310,12 @@
Rule Chile 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
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 S
-Rule Chile 2012 only - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 2012 only - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 2013 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 2013 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
+Rule Chile 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
+Rule Chile 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
# 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 # Santiago Mean Time
@@ -1334,21 +1333,27 @@
# Sala y Gomez Island is like Pacific/Easter.
# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernandez Is, San Ambrosio,
# San Felix, and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
# Colombia
+
+# Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogota time in 1899; round to nearest. He writes,
+# "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
+
# 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 -
# 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
+Zone America/Bogota -4:56:16 - LMT 1884 Mar 13
+ -4:56:16 - BMT 1914 Nov 23 # Bogota Mean Time
-5:00 CO CO%sT # Colombia Time
# Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
# no information; probably like America/Bogota
# Curacao
+
+# Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curacao mean time; round to nearest.
#
# 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
@@ -1361,11 +1366,11 @@
# 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.
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Curacao -4:35:44 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
+Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
-4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time
-4:00 - AST
# From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
# At least for now, use links for places with new iso3166 codes.
@@ -1375,10 +1380,12 @@
Link America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes # Sint Maarten
Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk # Bonaire, Sint Estatius and Saba
# Ecuador
#
+# Milne says the Sentral and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
+#
# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04):
# Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992.
# <http://midena.gov.ec/content/view/1261/208/> (2007-02-27) and
# <http://www.hoy.com.ec/NoticiaNue.asp?row_id=249856> (2006-11-06) both
# talk about "hora Sixto". Leave this alone for now, as we have no data.
@@ -1580,11 +1587,20 @@
# April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
# and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
# forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
# ...
Rule Para 2010 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Para 2010 max - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
+Rule Para 2010 2012 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
+# Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
+# http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
+#
+# From Carlos Raul Perasso (2013-03-15):
+# The change in Paraguay is now final. Decree number 10780
+# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
+Rule Para 2013 max - Mar Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890
-3:50:40 - AMT 1931 Oct 10 # Asuncion Mean Time
-4:00 - PYT 1972 Oct # Paraguay Time