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   1    1  # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
   2    2  # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
   3    3  
   4    4  # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
   5    5  # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
   6    6  # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
   7    7  # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
   8    8  
   9      -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
  10      -# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
        9 +# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
       10 +#
       11 +# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
  11   12  # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
  12   13  # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
       14 +# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
  13   15  #
  14      -# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
  15      -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
  16      -# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
  17      -#
  18   16  # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
  19   17  # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
  20   18  # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
  21   19  # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
  22      -# of the IATA's data after 1990.
       20 +# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
       21 +# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
  23   22  #
  24      -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
  25      -# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
       23 +# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
       24 +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
       25 +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
  26   26  #
  27   27  # Earlier editions of these tables used the North American style (e.g. ARST and
  28   28  # ARDT for Argentine Standard and Daylight Time), but the following quote
  29   29  # suggests that it's better to use European style (e.g. ART and ARST).
  30   30  #       I suggest the use of _Summer time_ instead of the more cumbersome
  31   31  #       _daylight-saving time_.  _Summer time_ seems to be in general use
  32   32  #       in Europe and South America.
  33   33  #       -- E O Cutler, _New York Times_ (1937-02-14), quoted in
  34   34  #       H L Mencken, _The American Language: Supplement I_ (1960), p 466
  35   35  #
  36   36  # Earlier editions of these tables also used the North American style
  37   37  # for time zones in Brazil, but this was incorrect, as Brazilians say
  38   38  # "summer time".  Reinaldo Goulart, a São Paulo businessman active in
  39   39  # the railroad sector, writes (1999-07-06):
  40   40  #       The subject of time zones is currently a matter of discussion/debate in
  41   41  #       Brazil.  Let's say that "the Brasília time" is considered the
  42   42  #       "official time" because Brasília is the capital city.
  43   43  #       The other three time zones are called "Brasília time "minus one" or
  44   44  #       "plus one" or "plus two".  As far as I know there is no such
  45   45  #       name/designation as "Eastern Time" or "Central Time".
  46   46  # So I invented the following (English-language) abbreviations for now.
  47   47  # Corrections are welcome!
  48   48  #               std     dst
  49   49  #       -2:00   FNT     FNST    Fernando de Noronha
  50   50  #       -3:00   BRT     BRST    Brasília
  51   51  #       -4:00   AMT     AMST    Amazon
  52   52  #       -5:00   ACT     ACST    Acre
  53   53  
  54   54  ###############################################################################
  55   55  
  56   56  ###############################################################################
  57   57  
  58   58  # Argentina
  59   59  
  60   60  # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
  61   61  # Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976.
  62   62  # Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974.  Switches at midnight.
  63   63  
  64   64  # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-19):
  65   65  # ARGENTINA           3 H BEHIND   UTC
  66   66  
  67   67  # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
  68   68  # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
  69   69  # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.
  70   70  
  71   71  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
  72   72  Rule    Arg     1930    only    -       Dec      1      0:00    1:00    S
  73   73  Rule    Arg     1931    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
  74   74  Rule    Arg     1931    only    -       Oct     15      0:00    1:00    S
  75   75  Rule    Arg     1932    1940    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
  76   76  Rule    Arg     1932    1939    -       Nov      1      0:00    1:00    S
  77   77  Rule    Arg     1940    only    -       Jul      1      0:00    1:00    S
  78   78  Rule    Arg     1941    only    -       Jun     15      0:00    0       -
  79   79  Rule    Arg     1941    only    -       Oct     15      0:00    1:00    S
  80   80  Rule    Arg     1943    only    -       Aug      1      0:00    0       -
  81   81  Rule    Arg     1943    only    -       Oct     15      0:00    1:00    S
  82   82  Rule    Arg     1946    only    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
  83   83  Rule    Arg     1946    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
  84   84  Rule    Arg     1963    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    0       -
  85   85  Rule    Arg     1963    only    -       Dec     15      0:00    1:00    S
  86   86  Rule    Arg     1964    1966    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
  87   87  Rule    Arg     1964    1966    -       Oct     15      0:00    1:00    S
  88   88  Rule    Arg     1967    only    -       Apr      2      0:00    0       -
  89   89  Rule    Arg     1967    1968    -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
  90   90  Rule    Arg     1968    1969    -       Apr     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
  91   91  Rule    Arg     1974    only    -       Jan     23      0:00    1:00    S
  92   92  Rule    Arg     1974    only    -       May      1      0:00    0       -
  93   93  Rule    Arg     1988    only    -       Dec      1      0:00    1:00    S
  94   94  #
  95   95  # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
  96   96  # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
  97   97  # obtaining the data from the:
  98   98  # Talleres de Hidrografía Naval Argentina
  99   99  # (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute)
 100  100  Rule    Arg     1989    1993    -       Mar     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
 101  101  Rule    Arg     1989    1992    -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
 102  102  #
 103  103  # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
 104  104  # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
 105  105  # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
 106  106  # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.
 107  107  #
 108  108  # From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
 109  109  # On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time,
 110  110  # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
 111  111  # from the International Date Line.
 112  112  Rule    Arg     1999    only    -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
 113  113  # From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28):
 114  114  # DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted
 115  115  # to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that
 116  116  # it ended on March 3.
 117  117  Rule    Arg     2000    only    -       Mar     3       0:00    0       -
 118  118  #
 119  119  # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01):
 120  120  # We just checked with our São Paulo office and they say the government of
 121  121  # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST.
 122  122  # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
 123  123  #
 124  124  # From Fabián L. Arce Jofré (2000-04-04):
 125  125  # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
 126  126  # de la Rúa on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
 127  127  # in the winter time, rather than less.  The change took effect on March 3.
 128  128  #
 129  129  # From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06):
 130  130  # one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999
 131  131  # Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
 132  132  # in effect.... The article is at
 133  133  # http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
 134  134  # ... The Law itself is "Ley No 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
 135  135  # 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21.  The official publication is at:
 136  136  # http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
 137  137  # Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
 138  138  #
 139  139  # (2001-06-12):
 140  140  # the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday.
 141  141  # Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th....
 142  142  # http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm
 143  143  #
 144  144  # (2001-06-25):
 145  145  # Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the
 146  146  # Senate annulled the 1999 law that introduced the changes later postponed.
 147  147  # http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm
 148  148  # It remains the vote of the Deputies..., but it will be the same....
 149  149  # This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina.
 150  150  # We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country.
 151  151  #
 152  152  # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21):
 153  153  # A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST....
 154  154  # all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected.  News reports like
 155  155  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate
 156  156  # that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to
 157  157  # March, although exact rules are not given.
 158  158  #
 159  159  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2007-12-26)
 160  160  # The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in
 161  161  # the lower chamber too (Diputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against.
 162  162  # By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to
 163  163  # the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are
 164  164  # clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval:
 165  165  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996
 166  166  #
 167  167  # From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22):
 168  168  # For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and
 169  169  # are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
 170  170  
 171  171  # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-09-05):
 172  172  # As per message from Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz (Nicaragua),
 173  173  # Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008.
 174  174  #
 175  175  # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
 176  176  # http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
 177  177  
 178  178  # From Rodrigo Severo (2008-10-06):
 179  179  # Here is some info available at a Gentoo bug related to TZ on Argentina's DST:
 180  180  # ...
 181  181  # ------- Comment #1 from [jmdocile]  2008-10-06 16:28 0000 -------
 182  182  # Hi, there is a problem with timezone-data-2008e and maybe with
 183  183  # timezone-data-2008f
 184  184  # Argentinian law [Number] 25.155 is no longer valid.
 185  185  # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
 186  186  # The new one is law [Number] 26.350
 187  187  # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
 188  188  # So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
 189  189  
 190  190  # From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
 191  191  # Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
 192  192  # in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
 193  193  # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
 194  194  #
 195  195  
 196  196  # Decree 1705/2008 excepting 12 Provinces from applying DST in the summer
 197  197  # 2008/2009: Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, La
 198  198  # Pampa, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
 199  199  # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
 200  200  #
 201  201  # Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
 202  202  # Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
 203  203  # included in Decree 1705/2008).
 204  204  # http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
 205  205  
 206  206  # From fullinet (2009-10-18):
 207  207  # As announced in
 208  208  # http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
 209  209  # (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
 210  210  # (English: "No hour change").
 211  211  #
 212  212  # "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvió no modificar la hora
 213  213  # oficial, decisión que estaba en estudio para su implementación el
 214  214  # domingo 18 de octubre. Desde el Ministerio de Planificación se anunció
 215  215  # que la Argentina hoy, en estas condiciones meteorológicas, no necesita
 216  216  # la modificación del huso horario, ya que 2009 nos encuentra con
 217  217  # crecimiento en la producción y distribución energética."
 218  218  
 219  219  Rule    Arg     2007    only    -       Dec     30      0:00    1:00    S
 220  220  Rule    Arg     2008    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 221  221  Rule    Arg     2008    only    -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
 222  222  
 223  223  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21):
 224  224  # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing
 225  225  # its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night....
 226  226  # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf
 227  227  # From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24):
 228  228  # It's Law No. 7,210.  This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
 229  229  # now we'll assume it's for this year only.
 230  230  #
 231  231  # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-09):
 232  232  # Hora de verano para la República Argentina
 233  233  # http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
 234  234  # says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
 235  235  # to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25.  Go with this more-precise value
 236  236  # over Shanks & Pottenger.
 237  237  #
 238  238  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
 239  239  # These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
 240  240  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
 241  241  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
 242  242  #
 243  243  # The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
 244  244  # midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
 245  245  # Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
 246  246  # time in October 17th.
 247  247  #
 248  248  # Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
 249  249  # Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán.
 250  250  #
 251  251  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14):
 252  252  # ... this weekend, the Province of Tucumán decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00
 253  253  # yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's
 254  254  # annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained....
 255  255  #
 256  256  # From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14):
 257  257  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ...
 258  258  #     "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from
 259  259  #   the start.  The government had decreed that the measure would take
 260  260  #   effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin
 261  261  #   three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday....
 262  262  # Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place
 263  263  # on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other
 264  264  # provinces).  Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier.  So the article
 265  265  # contains a contradiction.  I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
 266  266  # date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
 267  267  # Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
 268  268  #
 269  269  # From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
 270  270  # The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
 271  271  # back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
 272  272  # new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
 273  273  # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
 274  274  #
 275  275  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
 276  276  # San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
 277  277  # Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st.  It changed back to UTC-03:00
 278  278  # at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
 279  279  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
 280  280  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html
 281  281  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html
 282  282  
 283  283  # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17):
 284  284  # Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST
 285  285  # as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008:
 286  286  #
 287  287  # Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del país
 288  288  # (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the
 289  289  # country)
 290  290  # http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel
 291  291  #
 292  292  # Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes
 293  293  # (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay)
 294  294  # http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/253414/Economia/Es-inminente-que-en-San-Luis-atrasen-una-hora-los-relojes.html
 295  295  # http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html
 296  296  
 297  297  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-18):
 298  298  # The page of the San Luis provincial government
 299  299  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812
 300  300  # confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz
 301  301  # emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard
 302  302  # time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also
 303  303  # confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
 304  304  # refused to follow San Luis in this change.
 305  305  #
 306  306  # The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
 307  307  # hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
 308  308  # a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
 309  309  # independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
 310  310  # 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed).
 311  311  
 312  312  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-25):
 313  313  # Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis
 314  314  # time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most
 315  315  # important pages of 2008."
 316  316  #
 317  317  # You can use
 318  318  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834
 319  319  # instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis
 320  320  # government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages
 321  321  # from which the first one is identical to the above.
 322  322  
 323  323  # From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28):
 324  324  # I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that
 325  325  # province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
 326  326  # (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back
 327  327  # 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round
 328  328  # (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now).
 329  329  #
 330  330  # So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San
 331  331  # Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be
 332  332  # America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's
 333  333  # history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-(
 334  334  # (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis
 335  335  # back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
 336  336  # mailed them personally and never got an answer).
 337  337  
 338  338  # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
 339  339  # Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
 340  340  # 1992, from the IATA otherwise.  As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
 341  341  # America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
 342  342  # was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
 343  343  # keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
 344  344  # other 5 subregions.
 345  345  
 346  346  # From Mariano Absatz (2009-03-13):
 347  347  # Yesterday (with our usual 2-day notice) the Province of San Luis
 348  348  # decided that next Sunday instead of "staying" @utc-03:00 they will go
 349  349  # to utc-04:00 until the second Saturday in October...
 350  350  #
 351  351  # The press release is at
 352  352  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/SL/Paginas/NoticiaDetalle.asp?TemaId=1&InfoPrensaId=3102
 353  353  # (I couldn't find the decree, but www.sanluis.gov.ar
 354  354  # is the official page for the Province Government.)
 355  355  #
 356  356  # There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
 357  357  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
 358  358  #
 359  359  # The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
 360  360  # ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
 361  361  # inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
 362  362  #
 363  363  # Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
 364  364  # during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
 365  365  # in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
 366  366  
 367  367  # From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16):
 368  368  # ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself.
 369  369  #
 370  370  # The Law at
 371  371  # http://www.diputadossanluis.gov.ar/diputadosasp/paginas/verNorma.asp?NormaID=276
 372  372  # is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in
 373  373  # October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the
 374  374  # complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and
 375  375  # ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00.
 376  376  #
 377  377  # This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday.
 378  378  #
 379  379  # IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd
 380  380  # Sunday of October and March.
 381  381  #
 382  382  # The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did
 383  383  # change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees
 384  384  # that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March.
 385  385  #
 386  386  # In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday
 387  387  # (October 11th) at 0:00.
 388  388  #
 389  389  # So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last
 390  390  # America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these...
 391  391  #
 392  392  # I'm enclosing a patch that does what I say... regretfully, the San Luis
 393  393  # timezone must be called "WART/WARST" even when most of the time (like,
 394  394  # right now) WARST == ART... that is, since last Sunday, all the country
 395  395  # is using UTC-3, but in my patch, San Luis calls it "WARST" and the rest
 396  396  # of the country calls it "ART".
 397  397  # ...
 398  398  
 399  399  # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
 400  400  # According to news reports from El Diario de la República Province San
 401  401  # Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
 402  402  # after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
 403  403  # Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
 404  404  #
 405  405  # Confirmaron la prórroga del huso horario de verano (Spanish)
 406  406  # http://www.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29383&Itemid=9
 407  407  # or (some English translation):
 408  408  # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina08.html
 409  409  
 410  410  # From Mariano Absatz (2010-04-12):
 411  411  # yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
 412  412  # UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
 413  413  # rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
 414  414  # stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
 415  415  
 416  416  # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-05):
 417  417  # Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4
 418  418  # with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
 419  419  # just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example,
 420  420  # http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
 421  421  # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
 422  422  # standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
 423  423  # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
 424  424  # plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
 425  425  # setting for time stamps past 2038.
 426  426  
 427  427  # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
 428  428  # Milne says Córdoba time was -4:16:48.2.  Round to the nearest second.
 429  429  
 430  430  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 431  431  #
 432  432  # Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
 433  433  Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT      1894 Oct 31
 434  434                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 435  435                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 436  436                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 437  437                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 438  438                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 439  439                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 440  440  #
 441  441  # Córdoba (CB), Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN),
 442  442  # Chaco (CC), Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE)
 443  443  #
 444  444  # Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified:
 445  445  # - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
 446  446  # - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
 447  447  # - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
 448  448  # - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
 449  449  #   then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
 450  450  #
 451  451  Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 452  452                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 453  453                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 454  454                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 455  455                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 456  456                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 457  457                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 458  458                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 459  459                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 460  460  #
 461  461  # Salta (SA), La Pampa (LP), Neuquén (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
 462  462  Zone America/Argentina/Salta -4:21:40 - LMT     1894 Oct 31
 463  463                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 464  464                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 465  465                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 466  466                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 467  467                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 468  468                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 469  469                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 470  470                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 471  471                          -3:00   -       ART
 472  472  #
 473  473  # Tucumán (TM)
 474  474  Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 475  475                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 476  476                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 477  477                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 478  478                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 479  479                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 480  480                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 481  481                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 482  482                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 483  483                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 13
 484  484                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 485  485  #
 486  486  # La Rioja (LR)
 487  487  Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 488  488                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 489  489                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 490  490                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 491  491                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  1
 492  492                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 May  7
 493  493                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 494  494                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 495  495                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 496  496                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 497  497                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 498  498                          -3:00   -       ART
 499  499  #
 500  500  # San Juan (SJ)
 501  501  Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 502  502                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 503  503                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 504  504                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 505  505                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  1
 506  506                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 May  7
 507  507                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 508  508                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 509  509                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 31
 510  510                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jul 25
 511  511                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 512  512                          -3:00   -       ART
 513  513  #
 514  514  # Jujuy (JY)
 515  515  Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT     1894 Oct 31
 516  516                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 517  517                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 518  518                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 519  519                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990 Mar  4
 520  520                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 28
 521  521                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar 17
 522  522                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct  6
 523  523                          -3:00   1:00    ARST    1992
 524  524                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 525  525                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 526  526                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 527  527                          -3:00   -       ART
 528  528  #
 529  529  # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
 530  530  Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
 531  531                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 532  532                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 533  533                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 534  534                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 535  535                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 536  536                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 537  537                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 538  538                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 539  539                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 540  540                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 541  541                          -3:00   -       ART
 542  542  #
 543  543  # Mendoza (MZ)
 544  544  Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 545  545                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 546  546                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 547  547                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 548  548                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990 Mar  4
 549  549                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 15
 550  550                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar  1
 551  551                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 15
 552  552                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1992 Mar  1
 553  553                          -4:00   -       WART    1992 Oct 18
 554  554                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 555  555                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 556  556                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 23
 557  557                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Sep 26
 558  558                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 559  559                          -3:00   -       ART
 560  560  #
 561  561  # San Luis (SL)
 562  562  
 563  563  Rule    SanLuis 2008    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
 564  564  Rule    SanLuis 2007    2008    -       Oct     Sun>=8  0:00    1:00    S
 565  565  
 566  566  Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 567  567                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 568  568                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 569  569                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 570  570                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990
 571  571                          -3:00   1:00    ARST    1990 Mar 14
 572  572                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 15
 573  573                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar  1
 574  574                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Jun  1
 575  575                          -3:00   -       ART     1999 Oct  3
 576  576                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   2000 Mar  3
 577  577                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 31
 578  578                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jul 25
 579  579                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Jan 21
 580  580                          -4:00   SanLuis WAR%sT  2009 Oct 11
 581  581                          -3:00   -       ART
 582  582  #
 583  583  # Santa Cruz (SC)
 584  584  Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT      1894 Oct 31
 585  585                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 586  586                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 587  587                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 588  588                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 589  589                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 590  590                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 591  591                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 592  592                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 593  593                          -3:00   -       ART
 594  594  #
 595  595  # Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (TF)
 596  596  Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 597  597                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 598  598                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 599  599                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 600  600                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 601  601                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 602  602                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 30
 603  603                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 604  604                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 605  605                          -3:00   -       ART
 606  606  
 607  607  # Aruba
 608  608  Link America/Curacao America/Aruba
 609  609  
 610  610  # Bolivia
 611  611  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 612  612  Zone    America/La_Paz  -4:32:36 -      LMT     1890
 613  613                          -4:32:36 -      CMT     1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT
 614  614                          -4:32:36 1:00   BOST    1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST
 615  615                          -4:00   -       BOT     # Bolivia Time
 616  616  
 617  617  # Brazil
 618  618  
 619  619  # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 620  620  # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
 621  621  # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
 622  622  # The rule change lasted only part of the day;
 623  623  # the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business
 624  624  # was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon.
 625  625  
 626  626  # From IATA SSIM (1996-02):
 627  627  # _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS),
 628  628  # Santa Catarina (SC), Paraná (PR), São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ),
 629  629  # Espírito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Goiás (GO),
 630  630  # Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL].
 631  631  # [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.]
 632  632  
 633  633  # From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07):
 634  634  # Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Goiás until 1989), and other
 635  635  # sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were
 636  636  # always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST....
 637  637  # The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91.  Each issue from then until
 638  638  # 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95,
 639  639  # along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2
 640  640  # (UTC-4)....  The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is
 641  641  # UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is
 642  642  # UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's
 643  643  # become part of the state of Pernambuco).  The boundary between BR1 and BR2
 644  644  # has never been clearly stated.  They've simply been called East and West.
 645  645  # However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline
 646  646  # Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil.  For each
 647  647  # airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM.  From that
 648  648  # information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amapá (AP), Ceará (CE),
 649  649  # Maranhão (MA), Paraíba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piauí (PI), and Rio Grande do
 650  650  # Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Pará (PA) are all in BR1 without DST.
 651  651  
 652  652  # From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27):
 653  653  # Brazilian official page <http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html>
 654  654  
 655  655  # From Jesper Nørgaard (2000-11-03):
 656  656  # [For an official list of which regions in Brazil use which time zones, see:]
 657  657  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
 658  658  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
 659  659  
 660  660  # From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
 661  661  # The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
 662  662  #
 663  663  # Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
 664  664  # the results are known almost immediately.  Yesterday, it was the first
 665  665  # round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
 666  666  # Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies.  Nobody is
 667  667  # counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
 668  668  # round for the Presidency and also for some Governors.  The 2nd round will
 669  669  # take place on October 27th.
 670  670  #
 671  671  # The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
 672  672  # of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
 673  673  # Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
 674  674  # the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
 675  675  # (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
 676  676  
 677  677  # From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
 678  678  # It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
 679  679  # modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
 680  680  # with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
 681  681  
 682  682  # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20):
 683  683  # Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00:
 684  684  # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975
 685  685  
 686  686  # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
 687  687  # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
 688  688  # Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
 689  689  # effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
 690  690  #
 691  691  # a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
 692  692  # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
 693  693  # timezone UTC+4
 694  694  # b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
 695  695  # part of it, as was before.
 696  696  #
 697  697  # This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that
 698  698  # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying
 699  699  # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone
 700  700  # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections
 701  701  # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This
 702  702  # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,
 703  703  # 1913.
 704  704  
 705  705  # From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24):
 706  706  # Just correcting the URL:
 707  707  # https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=25/04/2008
 708  708  #
 709  709  # As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco
 710  710  # timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall
 711  711  # be created to represent the...west side of the Pará State. I
 712  712  # suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most
 713  713  # important/populated city in the affected area.
 714  714  #
 715  715  # This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to
 716  716  # the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4.
 717  717  
 718  718  # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24):
 719  719  # This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map.
 720  720  # http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php
 721  721  #
 722  722  # - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones - eliminating time zone UTC-05
 723  723  # (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT-04) - western
 724  724  # part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC-03 (from UTC-04).
 725  725  
 726  726  # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
 727  727  # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
 728  728  # Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
 729  729  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
 730  730  
 731  731  # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
 732  732  # As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
 733  733  # yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and
 734  734  # it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on
 735  735  # past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that
 736  736  # the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year.
 737  737  #
 738  738  # It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
 739  739  #
 740  740  # An official page about it:
 741  741  # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722
 742  742  # Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed
 743  743  # by going to
 744  744  # http://www.mme.gov.br/first
 745  745  #
 746  746  # One example link that works directly:
 747  747  # http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54
 748  748  # (Portuguese)
 749  749  #
 750  750  # We have a written a short article about it as well:
 751  751  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html
 752  752  #
 753  753  # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-04):
 754  754  # State Bahia will return to Daylight savings time this year after 8 years off.
 755  755  # The announcement was made by Governor Jaques Wagner in an interview to a
 756  756  # television station in Salvador.
 757  757  
 758  758  # In Portuguese:
 759  759  # http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/10/governador-jaques-wagner-confirma-horario-de-verao-na-bahia.html
 760  760  # http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
 761  761  
 762  762  # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
 763  763  # There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
 764  764  # I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at http://pcdsh01.on.br/ the
 765  765  # official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
 766  766  # still in force.
 767  767  
 768  768  # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
 769  769  # It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
 770  770  # time.
 771  771  #        [ and in a second message (same day): ]
 772  772  # I found the decree.
 773  773  #
 774  774  # DECRETO No- 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
 775  775  # Link :
 776  776  # http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
 777  777  
 778  778  # From Kelley Cook (2012-10-16):
 779  779  # The governor of state of Bahia in Brazil announced on Thursday that
 780  780  # due to public pressure, he is reversing the DST policy they implemented
 781  781  # last year and will not be going to Summer Time on October 21st....
 782  782  # http://www.correio24horas.com.br/r/artigo/apos-pressoes-wagner-suspende-horario-de-verao-na-bahia
 783  783  
 784  784  # From Rodrigo Severo (2012-10-16):
 785  785  # Tocantins state will have DST.
 786  786  # http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
 787  787  
 788  788  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
 789  789  # Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
 790  790  # http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
 791  791  # We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
 792  792  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
 793  793  
 794  794  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-10-17):
 795  795  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html
 796  796  # Senator Jorge Viana announced that Acre will change time zone on November 10.
 797  797  # He did not specify the time of the change, nor if western parts of Amazonas
 798  798  # will change as well.
 799  799  #
 800  800  # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-17):
 801  801  # For now, assume western Amazonas will change as well.
 802  802  
 803  803  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 804  804  # Decree 20,466 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm> (1931-10-01)
 805  805  # Decree 21,896 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm> (1932-01-10)
 806  806  Rule    Brazil  1931    only    -       Oct      3      11:00   1:00    S
 807  807  Rule    Brazil  1932    1933    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
 808  808  Rule    Brazil  1932    only    -       Oct      3       0:00   1:00    S
 809  809  # Decree 23,195 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm> (1933-10-10)
 810  810  # revoked DST.
 811  811  # Decree 27,496 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm> (1949-11-24)
 812  812  # Decree 27,998 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm> (1950-04-13)
 813  813  Rule    Brazil  1949    1952    -       Dec      1       0:00   1:00    S
 814  814  Rule    Brazil  1950    only    -       Apr     16       1:00   0       -
 815  815  Rule    Brazil  1951    1952    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
 816  816  # Decree 32,308 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm> (1953-02-24)
 817  817  Rule    Brazil  1953    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 818  818  # Decree 34,724 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm> (1953-11-30)
 819  819  # revoked DST.
 820  820  # Decree 52,700 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm> (1963-10-18)
 821  821  # established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00
 822  822  # in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought.
 823  823  # Decree 53,071 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm> (1963-12-03)
 824  824  # extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09.
 825  825  Rule    Brazil  1963    only    -       Dec      9       0:00   1:00    S
 826  826  # Decree 53,604 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm> (1964-02-25)
 827  827  # extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school).
 828  828  Rule    Brazil  1964    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 829  829  # Decree 55,639 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm> (1965-01-27)
 830  830  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Jan     31       0:00   1:00    S
 831  831  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Mar     31       0:00   0       -
 832  832  # Decree 57,303 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm> (1965-11-22)
 833  833  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Dec      1       0:00   1:00    S
 834  834  # Decree 57,843 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm> (1966-02-18)
 835  835  Rule    Brazil  1966    1968    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 836  836  Rule    Brazil  1966    1967    -       Nov      1       0:00   1:00    S
 837  837  # Decree 63,429 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm> (1968-10-15)
 838  838  # revoked DST.
 839  839  # Decree 91,698 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm> (1985-09-27)
 840  840  Rule    Brazil  1985    only    -       Nov      2       0:00   1:00    S
 841  841  # Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21)
 842  842  # Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13)
 843  843  Rule    Brazil  1986    only    -       Mar     15       0:00   0       -
 844  844  # Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01)
 845  845  Rule    Brazil  1986    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 846  846  Rule    Brazil  1987    only    -       Feb     14       0:00   0       -
 847  847  # Decree 94,922 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm> (1987-09-22)
 848  848  Rule    Brazil  1987    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 849  849  Rule    Brazil  1988    only    -       Feb      7       0:00   0       -
 850  850  # Decree 96,676 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm> (1988-09-12)
 851  851  # except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory)
 852  852  Rule    Brazil  1988    only    -       Oct     16       0:00   1:00    S
 853  853  Rule    Brazil  1989    only    -       Jan     29       0:00   0       -
 854  854  # Decree 98,077 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm> (1989-08-21)
 855  855  # with the same exceptions
 856  856  Rule    Brazil  1989    only    -       Oct     15       0:00   1:00    S
 857  857  Rule    Brazil  1990    only    -       Feb     11       0:00   0       -
 858  858  # Decree 99,530 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm> (1990-09-17)
 859  859  # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF.
 860  860  # Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT.
 861  861  Rule    Brazil  1990    only    -       Oct     21       0:00   1:00    S
 862  862  Rule    Brazil  1991    only    -       Feb     17       0:00   0       -
 863  863  # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm> (1991-09-25)
 864  864  # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF.
 865  865  Rule    Brazil  1991    only    -       Oct     20       0:00   1:00    S
 866  866  Rule    Brazil  1992    only    -       Feb      9       0:00   0       -
 867  867  # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm> (1992-10-16)
 868  868  # adopted by same states.
 869  869  Rule    Brazil  1992    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 870  870  Rule    Brazil  1993    only    -       Jan     31       0:00   0       -
 871  871  # Decree 942 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm> (1993-09-28)
 872  872  # adopted by same states, plus AM.
 873  873  # Decree 1,252 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm> (1994-09-22;
 874  874  # web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM.
 875  875  # Decree 1,636 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm> (1995-09-14)
 876  876  # adopted by same states, plus MT and TO.
 877  877  # Decree 1,674 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm> (1995-10-13)
 878  878  # adds AL, SE.
 879  879  Rule    Brazil  1993    1995    -       Oct     Sun>=11  0:00   1:00    S
 880  880  Rule    Brazil  1994    1995    -       Feb     Sun>=15  0:00   0       -
 881  881  Rule    Brazil  1996    only    -       Feb     11       0:00   0       -
 882  882  # Decree 2,000 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm> (1996-09-04)
 883  883  # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
 884  884  Rule    Brazil  1996    only    -       Oct      6       0:00   1:00    S
 885  885  Rule    Brazil  1997    only    -       Feb     16       0:00   0       -
 886  886  # From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
 887  887  # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
 888  888  # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
 889  889  # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
 890  890  # This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1
 891  891  # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
 892  892  #
 893  893  # Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states.
 894  894  Rule    Brazil  1997    only    -       Oct      6       0:00   1:00    S
 895  895  # Decree 2,495 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG>
 896  896  # (1998-02-10)
 897  897  Rule    Brazil  1998    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 898  898  # Decree 2,780 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg> (1998-09-11)
 899  899  # adopted by the same states as before.
 900  900  Rule    Brazil  1998    only    -       Oct     11       0:00   1:00    S
 901  901  Rule    Brazil  1999    only    -       Feb     21       0:00   0       -
 902  902  # Decree 3,150 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif>
 903  903  # (1999-08-23) adopted by same states.
 904  904  # Decree 3,188 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif> (1999-09-30)
 905  905  # adds SE, AL, PB, PE, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR.
 906  906  Rule    Brazil  1999    only    -       Oct      3       0:00   1:00    S
 907  907  Rule    Brazil  2000    only    -       Feb     27       0:00   0       -
 908  908  # Decree 3,592 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DEC3592.htm> (2000-09-06)
 909  909  # adopted by the same states as before.
 910  910  # Decree 3,630 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3630.jpg> (2000-10-13)
 911  911  # repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00.
 912  912  # Decree 3,632 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3632.jpg> (2000-10-17)
 913  913  # repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
 914  914  # Decree 3,916 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif>
 915  915  # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
 916  916  Rule    Brazil  2000    2001    -       Oct     Sun>=8   0:00   1:00    S
 917  917  Rule    Brazil  2001    2006    -       Feb     Sun>=15  0:00   0       -
 918  918  # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
 919  919  # 4,399 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm>
 920  920  Rule    Brazil  2002    only    -       Nov      3       0:00   1:00    S
 921  921  # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO.
 922  922  # 4,844 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm>
 923  923  Rule    Brazil  2003    only    -       Oct     19       0:00   1:00    S
 924  924  # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.
 925  925  # 5,223 <http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
 926  926  Rule    Brazil  2004    only    -       Nov      2       0:00   1:00    S
 927  927  # Decree 5,539 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif> (2005-09-19),
 928  928  # adopted by the same states as before.
 929  929  Rule    Brazil  2005    only    -       Oct     16       0:00   1:00    S
 930  930  # Decree 5,920 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5920.gif> (2006-10-03),
 931  931  # adopted by the same states as before.
 932  932  Rule    Brazil  2006    only    -       Nov      5       0:00   1:00    S
 933  933  Rule    Brazil  2007    only    -       Feb     25       0:00   0       -
 934  934  # Decree 6,212 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif> (2007-09-26),
 935  935  # adopted by the same states as before.
 936  936  Rule    Brazil  2007    only    -       Oct     Sun>=8   0:00   1:00    S
 937  937  # From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10):
 938  938  # According to this decree
 939  939  # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm
 940  940  # [t]he DST period in Brazil now on will be from the 3rd Oct Sunday to the
 941  941  # 3rd Feb Sunday. There is an exception on the return date when this is
 942  942  # the Carnival Sunday then the return date will be the next Sunday...
 943  943  Rule    Brazil  2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
 944  944  Rule    Brazil  2008    2011    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 945  945  Rule    Brazil  2012    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 946  946  Rule    Brazil  2013    2014    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 947  947  Rule    Brazil  2015    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 948  948  Rule    Brazil  2016    2022    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 949  949  Rule    Brazil  2023    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 950  950  Rule    Brazil  2024    2025    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 951  951  Rule    Brazil  2026    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 952  952  Rule    Brazil  2027    2033    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 953  953  Rule    Brazil  2034    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 954  954  Rule    Brazil  2035    2036    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 955  955  Rule    Brazil  2037    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 956  956  # From Arthur David Olson (2008-09-29):
 957  957  # The next is wrong in some years but is better than nothing.
 958  958  Rule    Brazil  2038    max     -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 959  959  
 960  960  # The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST:
 961  961  # DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
 962  962  
 963  963  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 964  964  #
 965  965  # Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE)
 966  966  Zone America/Noronha    -2:09:40 -      LMT     1914
 967  967                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   1990 Sep 17
 968  968                          -2:00   -       FNT     1999 Sep 30
 969  969                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   2000 Oct 15
 970  970                          -2:00   -       FNT     2001 Sep 13
 971  971                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   2002 Oct  1
 972  972                          -2:00   -       FNT
 973  973  # Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement.
 974  974  # These include Trindade and Martim Vaz (administratively part of ES),
 975  975  # Rocas Atoll (RN), and the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (PE).
 976  976  # Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01;
 977  977  # it also included the Penedos.
 978  978  #
 979  979  # Amapá (AP), east Pará (PA)
 980  980  # East Pará includes Belém, Marabá, Serra Norte, and São Félix do Xingu.
 981  981  # The division between east and west Pará is the river Xingu.
 982  982  # In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess,
 983  983  # the border with Amapá) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu.
 984  984  Zone America/Belem      -3:13:56 -      LMT     1914
 985  985                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1988 Sep 12
 986  986                          -3:00   -       BRT
 987  987  #
 988  988  # west Pará (PA)
 989  989  # West Pará includes Altamira, Óbidos, Prainha, Oriximiná, and Santarém.
 990  990  Zone America/Santarem   -3:38:48 -      LMT     1914
 991  991                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
 992  992                          -4:00   -       AMT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
 993  993                          -3:00   -       BRT
 994  994  #
 995  995  # Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
 996  996  # Paraíba (PB)
 997  997  Zone America/Fortaleza  -2:34:00 -      LMT     1914
 998  998                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
 999  999                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
1000 1000                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 22
1001 1001                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
1002 1002                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
1003 1003                          -3:00   -       BRT
1004 1004  #
1005 1005  # Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
1006 1006  Zone America/Recife     -2:19:36 -      LMT     1914
1007 1007                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1008 1008                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
1009 1009                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 15
1010 1010                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
1011 1011                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
1012 1012                          -3:00   -       BRT
1013 1013  #
1014 1014  # Tocantins (TO)
1015 1015  Zone America/Araguaina  -3:12:48 -      LMT     1914
1016 1016                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1017 1017                          -3:00   -       BRT     1995 Sep 14
1018 1018                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2003 Sep 24
1019 1019                          -3:00   -       BRT     2012 Oct 21
1020 1020                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2013 Sep
1021 1021                          -3:00   -       BRT
1022 1022  #
1023 1023  # Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
1024 1024  Zone America/Maceio     -2:22:52 -      LMT     1914
1025 1025                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1026 1026                          -3:00   -       BRT     1995 Oct 13
1027 1027                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1996 Sep  4
1028 1028                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
1029 1029                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 22
1030 1030                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
1031 1031                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
1032 1032                          -3:00   -       BRT
1033 1033  #
1034 1034  # Bahia (BA)
1035 1035  # There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead
1036 1036  # of America/Salvador.
1037 1037  Zone America/Bahia      -2:34:04 -      LMT     1914
1038 1038                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2003 Sep 24
1039 1039                          -3:00   -       BRT     2011 Oct 16
1040 1040                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2012 Oct 21
1041 1041                          -3:00   -       BRT
1042 1042  #
1043 1043  # Goiás (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
1044 1044  # Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Paraná (PR),
1045 1045  # Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
1046 1046  Zone America/Sao_Paulo  -3:06:28 -      LMT     1914
1047 1047                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1963 Oct 23  0:00
1048 1048                          -3:00   1:00    BRST    1964
1049 1049                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT
1050 1050  #
1051 1051  # Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
1052 1052  Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 -    LMT     1914
1053 1053                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT
1054 1054  #
1055 1055  # Mato Grosso (MT)
1056 1056  Zone America/Cuiaba     -3:44:20 -      LMT     1914
1057 1057                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   2003 Sep 24
1058 1058                          -4:00   -       AMT     2004 Oct  1
1059 1059                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT
1060 1060  #
1061 1061  # Rondônia (RO)
1062 1062  Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 -     LMT     1914
1063 1063                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1064 1064                          -4:00   -       AMT
1065 1065  #
1066 1066  # Roraima (RR)
1067 1067  Zone America/Boa_Vista  -4:02:40 -      LMT     1914
1068 1068                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1069 1069                          -4:00   -       AMT     1999 Sep 30
1070 1070                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   2000 Oct 15
1071 1071                          -4:00   -       AMT
1072 1072  #
1073 1073  # east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Jutaí, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto
1074 1074  # The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides
1075 1075  # east from west Amazonas.
1076 1076  Zone America/Manaus     -4:00:04 -      LMT     1914
1077 1077                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1078 1078                          -4:00   -       AMT     1993 Sep 28
1079 1079                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1994 Sep 22
1080 1080                          -4:00   -       AMT
1081 1081  #
1082 1082  # west Amazonas (AM): Atalaia do Norte, Boca do Maoco, Benjamin Constant,
1083 1083  #       Eirunepé, Envira, Ipixuna
1084 1084  Zone America/Eirunepe   -4:39:28 -      LMT     1914
1085 1085                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1988 Sep 12
1086 1086                          -5:00   -       ACT     1993 Sep 28
1087 1087                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1994 Sep 22
1088 1088                          -5:00   -       ACT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
1089 1089                          -4:00   -       AMT     2013 Nov 10
1090 1090                          -5:00   -       ACT
1091 1091  #
1092 1092  # Acre (AC)
1093 1093  Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 -      LMT     1914
1094 1094                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1988 Sep 12
1095 1095                          -5:00   -       ACT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
1096 1096                          -4:00   -       AMT     2013 Nov 10
1097 1097                          -5:00   -       ACT
1098 1098  
1099 1099  # Chile
1100 1100  
1101 1101  # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
1102 1102  # The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
1103 1103  # of October....  The law is the same for March and October.
1104 1104  # (1998-09-29):
1105 1105  # Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
1106 1106  # DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
1107 1107  # (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).
1108 1108  
1109 1109  # From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18):
1110 1110  # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
1111 1111  # on April 3, (one-time change).
1112 1112  
1113 1113  # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
1114 1114  # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1115 1115  
1116 1116  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-08):
1117 1117  # I think that there are some obvious mistakes in the suggested link
1118 1118  # from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66 says that GMT-4
1119 1119  # ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at 1990-09-15
1120 1120  # (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16 respectively), but
1121 1121  # anyhow it clears up some doubts too.
1122 1122  
1123 1123  # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
1124 1124  # The following data entries for Chile and America/Santiago are from
1125 1125  # <http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm> (2006-09-20), transcribed by
1126 1126  # Jesper Nørgaard Welen.  The data entries for Pacific/Easter are from Shanks
1127 1127  # & Pottenger, except with DST transitions after 1932 cloned from
1128 1128  # America/Santiago.  The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data entries are dubious,
1129 1129  # but we have no other source.
1130 1130  
1131 1131  # From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
1132 1132  # Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks.  This
1133 1133  # is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
1134 1134  # and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
1135 1135  # The Supreme Decree is located at
1136 1136  # http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
1137 1137  # and the instructions for 2008 are located in:
1138 1138  # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1139 1139  
1140 1140  # From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
1141 1141  # ...
1142 1142  # You could see the announces of the change on
1143 1143  # http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
1144 1144  
1145 1145  # From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
1146 1146  # Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
1147 1147  # http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
1148 1148  # (in Spanish, last paragraph).
1149 1149  #
1150 1150  # This is breaking news. There should be more information available later.
1151 1151  
1152 1152  # From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
1153 1153  # Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
1154 1154  
1155 1155  # From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02):
1156 1156  # It appears that the Chilean government has decided to postpone the
1157 1157  # change from summer time to winter time again, by three weeks to April
1158 1158  # 2nd:
1159 1159  # http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=467651
1160 1160  #
1161 1161  # This is not yet reflected in the official "cambio de hora" site, but
1162 1162  # probably will be soon:
1163 1163  # http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1164 1164  
1165 1165  # From Arthur David Olson (2011-03-02):
1166 1166  # The emol.com article mentions a water shortage as the cause of the
1167 1167  # postponement, which may mean that it's not a permanent change.
1168 1168  
1169 1169  # From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
1170 1170  # The article:
1171 1171  # http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
1172 1172  #
1173 1173  # In English:
1174 1174  # Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
1175 1175  # of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
1176 1176  # August, not in October as they have since 1968. This is a pilot plan
1177 1177  # which will be reevaluated in 2012.
1178 1178  
1179 1179  # From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
1180 1180  # As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
1181 1181  # http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
1182 1182  # The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
1183 1183  # (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012. The decision has not
1184 1184  # been yet formalized but it will within the next days.
1185 1185  # Quote from the website communication:
1186 1186  #
1187 1187  # 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
1188 1188  # a. Saturday April 28, 2012, clocks should go back 60 minutes; that is, at
1189 1189  # 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
1190 1190  # of the same day.
1191 1191  # b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
1192 1192  # at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
1193 1193  # 01:00 on September 2.
1194 1194  
1195 1195  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
1196 1196  # According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
1197 1197  # they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned.  They
1198 1198  # hope to save energy.  The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
  
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1199 1199  # start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
1200 1200  # http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
1201 1201  
1202 1202  # From José Miguel Garrido (2014-02-19):
1203 1203  # Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
1204 1204  # dates to 2014.
1205 1205  # DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
1206 1206  # DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
1207 1207  # http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
1208 1208  
     1209 +# From Juan Correa (2015-01-28):
     1210 +# ... today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep
     1211 +# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round....
     1212 +# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html
     1213 +
1209 1214  # NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
1210 1215  # 'antarctica' file.
1211 1216  
1212 1217  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1213 1218  Rule    Chile   1927    1932    -       Sep      1      0:00    1:00    S
1214 1219  Rule    Chile   1928    1932    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1215 1220  Rule    Chile   1942    only    -       Jun      1      4:00u   0       -
1216 1221  Rule    Chile   1942    only    -       Aug      1      5:00u   1:00    S
1217 1222  Rule    Chile   1946    only    -       Jul     15      4:00u   1:00    S
1218 1223  Rule    Chile   1946    only    -       Sep      1      3:00u   0:00    -
1219 1224  Rule    Chile   1947    only    -       Apr      1      4:00u   0       -
1220 1225  Rule    Chile   1968    only    -       Nov      3      4:00u   1:00    S
1221 1226  Rule    Chile   1969    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1222 1227  Rule    Chile   1969    only    -       Nov     23      4:00u   1:00    S
1223 1228  Rule    Chile   1970    only    -       Mar     29      3:00u   0       -
1224 1229  Rule    Chile   1971    only    -       Mar     14      3:00u   0       -
1225 1230  Rule    Chile   1970    1972    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1226 1231  Rule    Chile   1972    1986    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1227 1232  Rule    Chile   1973    only    -       Sep     30      4:00u   1:00    S
1228 1233  Rule    Chile   1974    1987    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1229 1234  Rule    Chile   1987    only    -       Apr     12      3:00u   0       -
1230 1235  Rule    Chile   1988    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1231 1236  Rule    Chile   1988    only    -       Oct     Sun>=1  4:00u   1:00    S
1232 1237  Rule    Chile   1989    only    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1233 1238  Rule    Chile   1990    only    -       Mar     18      3:00u   0       -
1234 1239  Rule    Chile   1990    only    -       Sep     16      4:00u   1:00    S
1235 1240  Rule    Chile   1991    1996    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1236 1241  Rule    Chile   1991    1997    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1237 1242  Rule    Chile   1997    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1238 1243  Rule    Chile   1998    only    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1239 1244  Rule    Chile   1998    only    -       Sep     27      4:00u   1:00    S
  
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1240 1245  Rule    Chile   1999    only    -       Apr      4      3:00u   0       -
1241 1246  Rule    Chile   1999    2010    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1242 1247  Rule    Chile   2000    2007    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1243 1248  # N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
1244 1249  # which is used below in specifying the transition.
1245 1250  Rule    Chile   2008    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1246 1251  Rule    Chile   2009    only    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1247 1252  Rule    Chile   2010    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  3:00u   0       -
1248 1253  Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       May     Sun>=2  3:00u   0       -
1249 1254  Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       Aug     Sun>=16 4:00u   1:00    S
1250      -Rule    Chile   2012    max     -       Apr     Sun>=23 3:00u   0       -
1251      -Rule    Chile   2012    max     -       Sep     Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    S
     1255 +Rule    Chile   2012    2015    -       Apr     Sun>=23 3:00u   0       -
     1256 +Rule    Chile   2012    2014    -       Sep     Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    S
1252 1257  # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
1253 1258  # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08.  Ignore these.
1254 1259  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1255 1260  Zone America/Santiago   -4:42:46 -      LMT     1890
1256 1261                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1910        # Santiago Mean Time
1257 1262                          -5:00   -       CLT     1916 Jul  1 # Chile Time
1258 1263                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1918 Sep  1 # Santiago Mean Time
1259 1264                          -4:00   -       CLT     1919 Jul  1 # Chile Time
1260 1265                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1927 Sep  1 # Santiago Mean Time
1261 1266                          -5:00   Chile   CL%sT   1947 May 22 # Chile Time
1262      -                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT
     1267 +                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT   2015 Apr 26  3:00u
     1268 +                        -3:00   -       CLT
1263 1269  Zone Pacific/Easter     -7:17:44 -      LMT     1890
1264 1270                          -7:17:28 -      EMT     1932 Sep    # Easter Mean Time
1265      -                        -7:00   Chile   EAS%sT  1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter Time
1266      -                        -6:00   Chile   EAS%sT
     1271 +                        -7:00   Chile   EAS%sT  1982 Mar 13 3:00u # Easter Time
     1272 +                        -6:00   Chile   EAS%sT  2015 Apr 26 3:00u
     1273 +                        -5:00   -       EAST
1267 1274  #
1268 1275  # Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
1269 1276  # Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
1270 1277  # and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
1271 1278  
1272 1279  # Colombia
1273 1280  
1274 1281  # Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogotá time in 1899; round to nearest.  He writes,
1275 1282  # "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
1276 1283  
1277 1284  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1278 1285  Rule    CO      1992    only    -       May      3      0:00    1:00    S
1279 1286  Rule    CO      1993    only    -       Apr      4      0:00    0       -
1280 1287  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1281 1288  Zone    America/Bogota  -4:56:16 -      LMT     1884 Mar 13
1282 1289                          -4:56:16 -      BMT     1914 Nov 23 # Bogotá Mean Time
1283 1290                          -5:00   CO      CO%sT   # Colombia Time
1284 1291  # Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
1285 1292  # no information; probably like America/Bogota
1286 1293  
1287 1294  # Curaçao
1288 1295  
1289 1296  # Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curaçao mean time; round to nearest.
1290 1297  #
1291 1298  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1292 1299  # Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at
1293 1300  # -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that
1294 1301  # Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from
1295 1302  # 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01.  The former is dubious, since S&P also say
1296 1303  # Saba Island has been like Curaçao.
1297 1304  # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though.
1298 1305  #
1299 1306  # By July 2007 Curaçao and St Maarten are planned to become
1300 1307  # associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba;
1301 1308  # Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the
1302 1309  # Netherlands as Kingdom Islands.  This won't affect their time zones
1303 1310  # though, as far as we know.
1304 1311  #
1305 1312  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1306 1313  Zone    America/Curacao -4:35:47 -      LMT     1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
1307 1314                          -4:30   -       ANT     1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time
1308 1315                          -4:00   -       AST
1309 1316  
1310 1317  # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
1311 1318  # use links for places with new iso3166 codes.
1312 1319  # The name "Lower Prince's Quarter" is both longer than fourteen characters
1313 1320  # and contains an apostrophe; use "Lower_Princes" below.
1314 1321  
1315 1322  Link    America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes   # Sint Maarten
1316 1323  Link    America/Curacao America/Kralendijk      # Caribbean Netherlands
1317 1324  
1318 1325  # Ecuador
1319 1326  #
1320 1327  # Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
1321 1328  #
1322 1329  # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04):
1323 1330  # Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992.
1324 1331  # <http://midena.gov.ec/content/view/1261/208/> (2007-02-27) and
1325 1332  # <http://www.hoy.com.ec/NoticiaNue.asp?row_id=249856> (2006-11-06) both
1326 1333  # talk about "hora Sixto".  Leave this alone for now, as we have no data.
1327 1334  #
1328 1335  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1329 1336  Zone America/Guayaquil  -5:19:20 -      LMT     1890
1330 1337                          -5:14:00 -      QMT     1931 # Quito Mean Time
1331 1338                          -5:00   -       ECT     # Ecuador Time
1332 1339  Zone Pacific/Galapagos  -5:58:24 -      LMT     1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
1333 1340                          -5:00   -       ECT     1986
1334 1341                          -6:00   -       GALT    # Galápagos Time
1335 1342  
1336 1343  # Falklands
1337 1344  
1338 1345  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1339 1346  # Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except
1340 1347  # the IATA gives 1996-09-08.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1341 1348  
1342 1349  # From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22)
1343 1350  # via Jesper Nørgaard:
1344 1351  # ... the clocks revert back to Local Mean Time at 2 am on Sunday 15
1345 1352  # April 2001 and advance one hour to summer time at 2 am on Sunday 2
1346 1353  # September.  It is anticipated that the clocks will revert back at 2
1347 1354  # am on Sunday 21 April 2002 and advance to summer time at 2 am on
1348 1355  # Sunday 1 September.
1349 1356  
1350 1357  # From Rives McDow (2001-02-13):
1351 1358  #
1352 1359  # I have communicated several times with people there, and the last
1353 1360  # time I had communications that was helpful was in 1998.  Here is
1354 1361  # what was said then:
1355 1362  #
1356 1363  # "The general rule was that Stanley used daylight saving and the Camp
1357 1364  # did not. However for various reasons many people in the Camp have
1358 1365  # started to use daylight saving (known locally as 'Stanley Time')
1359 1366  # There is no rule as to who uses daylight saving - it is a matter of
1360 1367  # personal choice and so it is impossible to draw a map showing who
1361 1368  # uses it and who does not. Any list would be out of date as soon as
1362 1369  # it was produced. This year daylight saving ended on April 18/19th
1363 1370  # and started again on September 12/13th.  I do not know what the rule
1364 1371  # is, but can find out if you like.  We do not change at the same time
1365 1372  # as UK or Chile."
1366 1373  #
1367 1374  # I did have in my notes that the rule was "Second Saturday in Sep at
1368 1375  # 0:00 until third Saturday in Apr at 0:00".  I think that this does
1369 1376  # not agree in some cases with Shanks; is this true?
1370 1377  #
1371 1378  # Also, there is no mention in the list that some areas in the
1372 1379  # Falklands do not use DST.  I have found in my communications there
1373 1380  # that these areas are on the western half of East Falkland and all of
1374 1381  # West Falkland.  Stanley is the only place that consistently observes
1375 1382  # DST.  Again, as in other places in the world, the farmers don't like
1376 1383  # it.  West Falkland is almost entirely sheep farmers.
1377 1384  #
1378 1385  # I know one lady there that keeps a list of which farm keeps DST and
1379 1386  # which doesn't each year.  She runs a shop in Stanley, and says that
1380 1387  # the list changes each year.  She uses it to communicate to her
1381 1388  # customers, catching them when they are home for lunch or dinner.
1382 1389  
1383 1390  # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1384 1391  # For now, we'll just record the time in Stanley, since we have no
1385 1392  # better info.
1386 1393  
1387 1394  # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-04-01):
1388 1395  # The Falkland Islands will not turn back clocks this winter, but stay on
1389 1396  # daylight saving time.
1390 1397  #
1391 1398  # One source:
1392 1399  # http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=5914&source=3
1393 1400  #
1394 1401  # We have gotten this confirmed by a clerk of the legislative assembly:
1395 1402  # Normally the clocks revert to Local Mean Time (UTC/GMT -4 hours) on the
1396 1403  # third Sunday of April at 0200hrs and advance to Summer Time (UTC/GMT -3
1397 1404  # hours) on the first Sunday of September at 0200hrs.
1398 1405  #
1399 1406  # IMPORTANT NOTE: During 2011, on a trial basis, the Falkland Islands
1400 1407  # will not revert to local mean time, but clocks will remain on Summer
1401 1408  # time (UTC/GMT - 3 hours) throughout the whole of 2011.  Any long term
1402 1409  # change to local time following the trial period will be notified.
1403 1410  #
1404 1411  # From Andrew Newman (2012-02-24)
1405 1412  # A letter from Justin McPhee, Chief Executive,
1406 1413  # Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands (dated 2012-02-22)
1407 1414  # states...
1408 1415  #   The current Atlantic/Stanley entry under South America expects the
1409 1416  #   clocks to go back to standard Falklands Time (FKT) on the 15th April.
1410 1417  #   The database entry states that in 2011 Stanley was staying on fixed
1411 1418  #   summer time on a trial basis only.  FIG need to contact IANA and/or
1412 1419  #   the maintainers of the database to inform them we're adopting
1413 1420  #   the same policy this year and suggest recommendations for future years.
1414 1421  #
1415 1422  # For now we will assume permanent summer time for the Falklands
1416 1423  # until advised differently (to apply for 2012 and beyond, after the 2011
1417 1424  # experiment was apparently successful.)
1418 1425  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1419 1426  Rule    Falk    1937    1938    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1420 1427  Rule    Falk    1938    1942    -       Mar     Sun>=19 0:00    0       -
1421 1428  Rule    Falk    1939    only    -       Oct     1       0:00    1:00    S
1422 1429  Rule    Falk    1940    1942    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1423 1430  Rule    Falk    1943    only    -       Jan     1       0:00    0       -
1424 1431  Rule    Falk    1983    only    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1425 1432  Rule    Falk    1984    1985    -       Apr     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1426 1433  Rule    Falk    1984    only    -       Sep     16      0:00    1:00    S
1427 1434  Rule    Falk    1985    2000    -       Sep     Sun>=9  0:00    1:00    S
1428 1435  Rule    Falk    1986    2000    -       Apr     Sun>=16 0:00    0       -
1429 1436  Rule    Falk    2001    2010    -       Apr     Sun>=15 2:00    0       -
1430 1437  Rule    Falk    2001    2010    -       Sep     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
1431 1438  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1432 1439  Zone Atlantic/Stanley   -3:51:24 -      LMT     1890
1433 1440                          -3:51:24 -      SMT     1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
1434 1441                          -4:00   Falk    FK%sT   1983 May    # Falkland Is Time
1435 1442                          -3:00   Falk    FK%sT   1985 Sep 15
1436 1443                          -4:00   Falk    FK%sT   2010 Sep  5  2:00
1437 1444                          -3:00   -       FKST
1438 1445  
1439 1446  # French Guiana
1440 1447  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1441 1448  Zone America/Cayenne    -3:29:20 -      LMT     1911 Jul
1442 1449                          -4:00   -       GFT     1967 Oct # French Guiana Time
1443 1450                          -3:00   -       GFT
1444 1451  
1445 1452  # Guyana
1446 1453  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1447 1454  Zone    America/Guyana  -3:52:40 -      LMT     1915 Mar    # Georgetown
1448 1455                          -3:45   -       GBGT    1966 May 26 # Br Guiana Time
1449 1456                          -3:45   -       GYT     1975 Jul 31 # Guyana Time
1450 1457                          -3:00   -       GYT     1991
1451 1458  # IATA SSIM (1996-06) says -4:00.  Assume a 1991 switch.
1452 1459                          -4:00   -       GYT
1453 1460  
1454 1461  # Paraguay
1455 1462  #
1456 1463  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1457 1464  # Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are 01:00 -> 02:00,
1458 1465  # and autumn transitions are 00:00 -> 23:00.  Go with pre-1999
1459 1466  # editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00.
1460 1467  #
1461 1468  # From Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (2013-09-20):
1462 1469  # No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
1463 1470  # adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
1464 1471  #
1465 1472  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1466 1473  Rule    Para    1975    1988    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1467 1474  Rule    Para    1975    1978    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1468 1475  Rule    Para    1979    1991    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1469 1476  Rule    Para    1989    only    -       Oct     22      0:00    1:00    S
1470 1477  Rule    Para    1990    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1471 1478  Rule    Para    1991    only    -       Oct      6      0:00    1:00    S
1472 1479  Rule    Para    1992    only    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1473 1480  Rule    Para    1992    only    -       Oct      5      0:00    1:00    S
1474 1481  Rule    Para    1993    only    -       Mar     31      0:00    0       -
1475 1482  Rule    Para    1993    1995    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1476 1483  Rule    Para    1994    1995    -       Feb     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1477 1484  Rule    Para    1996    only    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1478 1485  # IATA SSIM (2000-02) says 1999-10-10; ignore this for now.
1479 1486  # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-02):
1480 1487  # I have three independent reports that Paraguay changed to DST this Sunday
1481 1488  # (10-01).
1482 1489  #
1483 1490  # Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
1484 1491  # Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
1485 1492  # http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
1486 1493  # Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
1487 1494  # fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power....  The time change
1488 1495  # system has been operating for several years.  Formerly there was a separate
1489 1496  # decree each year; the new law has the same effect, but permanently.  Every
1490 1497  # year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the
1491 1498  # clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March.
1492 1499  #
1493 1500  Rule    Para    1996    2001    -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1494 1501  # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1495 1502  Rule    Para    1997    only    -       Feb     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1496 1503  # Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but
1497 1504  # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
1498 1505  Rule    Para    1998    2001    -       Mar     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
1499 1506  # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
1500 1507  # A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
1501 1508  # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
1502 1509  # April.
1503 1510  Rule    Para    2002    2004    -       Apr     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
1504 1511  Rule    Para    2002    2003    -       Sep     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1505 1512  #
1506 1513  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-01-02):
1507 1514  # There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made
1508 1515  # a timezone rule change in autumn 2004.
1509 1516  # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
1510 1517  # Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
1511 1518  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
1512 1519  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
1513 1520  Rule    Para    2004    2009    -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
1514 1521  Rule    Para    2005    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
1515 1522  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18):
1516 1523  # By decree number 3958 issued yesterday
1517 1524  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decreto3958.pdf
1518 1525  # Paraguay changes its DST schedule, postponing the March rule to April and
1519 1526  # modifying the October date. The decree reads:
1520 1527  # ...
1521 1528  # Art. 1. It is hereby established that from the second Sunday of the month of
1522 1529  # April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
1523 1530  # and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
1524 1531  # forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
1525 1532  # ...
1526 1533  Rule    Para    2010    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1527 1534  Rule    Para    2010    2012    -       Apr     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
1528 1535  #
1529 1536  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
1530 1537  # Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
1531 1538  # http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
1532 1539  #
1533 1540  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2013-03-15):
1534 1541  # The change in Paraguay is now final.  Decree number 10780
1535 1542  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
1536 1543  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2014-02-28):
1537 1544  # Decree 1264 can be found at:
1538 1545  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/archivos/documentos/DECRETO1264_ey9r8zai.pdf
1539 1546  Rule    Para    2013    max     -       Mar     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
1540 1547  
1541 1548  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1542 1549  Zone America/Asuncion   -3:50:40 -      LMT     1890
1543 1550                          -3:50:40 -      AMT     1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time
1544 1551                          -4:00   -       PYT     1972 Oct    # Paraguay Time
1545 1552                          -3:00   -       PYT     1974 Apr
1546 1553                          -4:00   Para    PY%sT
1547 1554  
1548 1555  # Peru
1549 1556  #
1550 1557  # From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26)
1551 1558  # <news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>:
1552 1559  # When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over
1553 1560  # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon.
1554 1561  #
1555 1562  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1556 1563  # Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition.  Assume 1986 was like 1987.
1557 1564  
1558 1565  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1559 1566  Rule    Peru    1938    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1560 1567  Rule    Peru    1938    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1561 1568  Rule    Peru    1938    1939    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1562 1569  Rule    Peru    1939    1940    -       Mar     Sun>=24 0:00    0       -
1563 1570  Rule    Peru    1986    1987    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1564 1571  Rule    Peru    1986    1987    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1565 1572  Rule    Peru    1990    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1566 1573  Rule    Peru    1990    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1567 1574  # IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1568 1575  Rule    Peru    1994    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1569 1576  Rule    Peru    1994    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1570 1577  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1571 1578  Zone    America/Lima    -5:08:12 -      LMT     1890
1572 1579                          -5:08:36 -      LMT     1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time?
1573 1580                          -5:00   Peru    PE%sT   # Peru Time
1574 1581  
1575 1582  # South Georgia
1576 1583  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1577 1584  Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 -  LMT     1890 # Grytviken
1578 1585                          -2:00   -       GST     # South Georgia Time
1579 1586  
1580 1587  # South Sandwich Is
1581 1588  # uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered
1582 1589  
1583 1590  # Suriname
1584 1591  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1585 1592  Zone America/Paramaribo -3:40:40 -      LMT     1911
1586 1593                          -3:40:52 -      PMT     1935     # Paramaribo Mean Time
1587 1594                          -3:40:36 -      PMT     1945 Oct    # The capital moved?
1588 1595                          -3:30   -       NEGT    1975 Nov 20 # Dutch Guiana Time
1589 1596                          -3:30   -       SRT     1984 Oct    # Suriname Time
1590 1597                          -3:00   -       SRT
1591 1598  
1592 1599  # Trinidad and Tobago
1593 1600  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1594 1601  Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -   LMT     1912 Mar 2
1595 1602                          -4:00   -       AST
1596 1603  
1597 1604  # These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970.
1598 1605  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla
1599 1606  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica
1600 1607  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada
1601 1608  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe
1602 1609  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot      # St Martin (French part)
1603 1610  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Montserrat
1604 1611  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy # St Barthélemy
1605 1612  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Kitts     # St Kitts & Nevis
1606 1613  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Lucia
1607 1614  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Thomas    # Virgin Islands (US)
1608 1615  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Vincent
1609 1616  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Tortola      # Virgin Islands (UK)
1610 1617  
1611 1618  # Uruguay
1612 1619  # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
1613 1620  # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
1614 1621  # From Shanks & Pottenger:
1615 1622  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1616 1623  # Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1617 1624  Rule    Uruguay 1923    only    -       Oct      2       0:00   0:30    HS
1618 1625  Rule    Uruguay 1924    1926    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
1619 1626  Rule    Uruguay 1924    1925    -       Oct      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1620 1627  Rule    Uruguay 1933    1935    -       Oct     lastSun  0:00   0:30    HS
1621 1628  # Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 1 0:00 & 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman.
1622 1629  Rule    Uruguay 1934    1936    -       Mar     Sat>=25 23:30s  0       -
1623 1630  Rule    Uruguay 1936    only    -       Nov      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1624 1631  Rule    Uruguay 1937    1941    -       Mar     lastSun  0:00   0       -
1625 1632  # Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1626 1633  Rule    Uruguay 1937    1940    -       Oct     lastSun  0:00   0:30    HS
1627 1634  # Whitman gives 1941 Oct 24 - 1942 Mar 27, 1942 Dec 14 - 1943 Apr 13,
1628 1635  # and 1943 Apr 13 "to present time"; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1629 1636  Rule    Uruguay 1941    only    -       Aug      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1630 1637  Rule    Uruguay 1942    only    -       Jan      1       0:00   0       -
1631 1638  Rule    Uruguay 1942    only    -       Dec     14       0:00   1:00    S
1632 1639  Rule    Uruguay 1943    only    -       Mar     14       0:00   0       -
1633 1640  Rule    Uruguay 1959    only    -       May     24       0:00   1:00    S
1634 1641  Rule    Uruguay 1959    only    -       Nov     15       0:00   0       -
1635 1642  Rule    Uruguay 1960    only    -       Jan     17       0:00   1:00    S
1636 1643  Rule    Uruguay 1960    only    -       Mar      6       0:00   0       -
1637 1644  Rule    Uruguay 1965    1967    -       Apr     Sun>=1   0:00   1:00    S
1638 1645  Rule    Uruguay 1965    only    -       Sep     26       0:00   0       -
1639 1646  Rule    Uruguay 1966    1967    -       Oct     31       0:00   0       -
1640 1647  Rule    Uruguay 1968    1970    -       May     27       0:00   0:30    HS
1641 1648  Rule    Uruguay 1968    1970    -       Dec      2       0:00   0       -
1642 1649  Rule    Uruguay 1972    only    -       Apr     24       0:00   1:00    S
1643 1650  Rule    Uruguay 1972    only    -       Aug     15       0:00   0       -
1644 1651  Rule    Uruguay 1974    only    -       Mar     10       0:00   0:30    HS
1645 1652  Rule    Uruguay 1974    only    -       Dec     22       0:00   1:00    S
1646 1653  Rule    Uruguay 1976    only    -       Oct      1       0:00   0       -
1647 1654  Rule    Uruguay 1977    only    -       Dec      4       0:00   1:00    S
1648 1655  Rule    Uruguay 1978    only    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
1649 1656  Rule    Uruguay 1979    only    -       Oct      1       0:00   1:00    S
1650 1657  Rule    Uruguay 1980    only    -       May      1       0:00   0       -
1651 1658  Rule    Uruguay 1987    only    -       Dec     14       0:00   1:00    S
1652 1659  Rule    Uruguay 1988    only    -       Mar     14       0:00   0       -
1653 1660  Rule    Uruguay 1988    only    -       Dec     11       0:00   1:00    S
1654 1661  Rule    Uruguay 1989    only    -       Mar     12       0:00   0       -
1655 1662  Rule    Uruguay 1989    only    -       Oct     29       0:00   1:00    S
1656 1663  # Shanks & Pottenger say no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2,
1657 1664  # and that 1992/3's DST was from 10-25 to 03-01.  Go with IATA.
1658 1665  Rule    Uruguay 1990    1992    -       Mar     Sun>=1   0:00   0       -
1659 1666  Rule    Uruguay 1990    1991    -       Oct     Sun>=21  0:00   1:00    S
1660 1667  Rule    Uruguay 1992    only    -       Oct     18       0:00   1:00    S
1661 1668  Rule    Uruguay 1993    only    -       Feb     28       0:00   0       -
1662 1669  # From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
1663 1670  # The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
1664 1671  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm
1665 1672  Rule    Uruguay 2004    only    -       Sep     19       0:00   1:00    S
1666 1673  # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
1667 1674  # Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to
1668 1675  # save energy ... it was postponed two weeks....
1669 1676  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2005/03/2005031005.htm
1670 1677  Rule    Uruguay 2005    only    -       Mar     27       2:00   0       -
1671 1678  # From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27):
1672 1679  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/decretos/2005/09/CM%20119_09%2009%202005_00001.PDF
1673 1680  # This means that from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at
1674 1681  # 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
1675 1682  Rule    Uruguay 2005    only    -       Oct      9       2:00   1:00    S
1676 1683  Rule    Uruguay 2006    only    -       Mar     12       2:00   0       -
1677 1684  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
1678 1685  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF
1679 1686  Rule    Uruguay 2006    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1   2:00   1:00    S
1680 1687  Rule    Uruguay 2007    max     -       Mar     Sun>=8   2:00   0       -
1681 1688  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1682 1689  Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 -      LMT     1898 Jun 28
1683 1690                          -3:44:44 -      MMT     1920 May  1 # Montevideo MT
1684 1691                          -3:30   Uruguay UY%sT   1942 Dec 14 # Uruguay Time
1685 1692                          -3:00   Uruguay UY%sT
1686 1693  
1687 1694  # Venezuela
1688 1695  #
1689 1696  # From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
1690 1697  # ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
1691 1698  # been brought forward to 2007-12-09.  The official announcement was
1692 1699  # published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana
1693 1700  # de Venezuela, número 38.819" (official document for all laws or
1694 1701  # resolution publication)
1695 1702  # http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
1696 1703  
1697 1704  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1698 1705  Zone    America/Caracas -4:27:44 -      LMT     1890
1699 1706                          -4:27:40 -      CMT     1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
1700 1707                          -4:30   -       VET     1965        # Venezuela Time
1701 1708                          -4:00   -       VET     2007 Dec  9  3:00
1702 1709                          -4:30   -       VET
  
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