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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    9  # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
  10   10  #
  11   11  # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
  12   12  # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
  13   13  # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
  14   14  # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
  15   15  #
  16   16  # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
  17   17  # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
  18   18  # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
  19   19  # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
  20   20  # of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
  21   21  # IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
  22   22  #
  23   23  # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
  24   24  # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
  25   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 Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
 179  179  # via Rodrigo Severo:
 180  180  # Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
 181  181  # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
 182  182  # The new one is law No. 26.350
 183  183  # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
 184  184  # So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
 185  185  
 186  186  # From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
 187  187  # Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
 188  188  # in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
 189  189  # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
 190  190  #
 191  191  
 192  192  # Decree 1705/2008 excepting 12 Provinces from applying DST in the summer
 193  193  # 2008/2009: Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, La
 194  194  # Pampa, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
 195  195  # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
 196  196  #
 197  197  # Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
 198  198  # Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
 199  199  # included in Decree 1705/2008).
 200  200  # http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
 201  201  
 202  202  # From fullinet (2009-10-18):
 203  203  # As announced in
 204  204  # http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
 205  205  # (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
 206  206  # (English: "No hour change").
 207  207  #
 208  208  # "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvió no modificar la hora
 209  209  # oficial, decisión que estaba en estudio para su implementación el
 210  210  # domingo 18 de octubre. Desde el Ministerio de Planificación se anunció
 211  211  # que la Argentina hoy, en estas condiciones meteorológicas, no necesita
 212  212  # la modificación del huso horario, ya que 2009 nos encuentra con
 213  213  # crecimiento en la producción y distribución energética."
 214  214  
 215  215  Rule    Arg     2007    only    -       Dec     30      0:00    1:00    S
 216  216  Rule    Arg     2008    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 217  217  Rule    Arg     2008    only    -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
 218  218  
 219  219  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21):
 220  220  # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing
 221  221  # its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night....
 222  222  # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf
 223  223  # From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24):
 224  224  # It's Law No. 7,210.  This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
 225  225  # now we'll assume it's for this year only.
 226  226  #
 227  227  # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-09):
 228  228  # Hora de verano para la República Argentina
 229  229  # http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
 230  230  # says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
 231  231  # to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25.  Go with this more-precise value
 232  232  # over Shanks & Pottenger.
 233  233  #
 234  234  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
 235  235  # These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
 236  236  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
 237  237  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
 238  238  #
 239  239  # The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
 240  240  # midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
 241  241  # Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
 242  242  # time in October 17th.
 243  243  #
 244  244  # Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
 245  245  # Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán.
 246  246  #
 247  247  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14):
 248  248  # ... this weekend, the Province of Tucumán decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00
 249  249  # yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's
 250  250  # annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained....
 251  251  #
 252  252  # From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14):
 253  253  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ...
 254  254  #     "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from
 255  255  #   the start.  The government had decreed that the measure would take
 256  256  #   effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin
 257  257  #   three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday....
 258  258  # Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place
 259  259  # on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other
 260  260  # provinces).  Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier.  So the article
 261  261  # contains a contradiction.  I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
 262  262  # date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
 263  263  # Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
 264  264  #
 265  265  # From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
 266  266  # The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
 267  267  # back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
 268  268  # new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
 269  269  # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
 270  270  #
 271  271  # From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
 272  272  # San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
 273  273  # Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st.  It changed back to UTC-03:00
 274  274  # at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
 275  275  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
 276  276  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html
 277  277  # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html
 278  278  
 279  279  # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17):
 280  280  # Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST
 281  281  # as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008:
 282  282  #
 283  283  # Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del país
 284  284  # (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the
 285  285  # country)
 286  286  # http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel
 287  287  #
 288  288  # Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes
 289  289  # (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay)
 290  290  # http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/253414/Economia/Es-inminente-que-en-San-Luis-atrasen-una-hora-los-relojes.html
 291  291  # http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html
 292  292  
 293  293  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-18):
 294  294  # The page of the San Luis provincial government
 295  295  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812
 296  296  # confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz
 297  297  # emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard
 298  298  # time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also
 299  299  # confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
 300  300  # refused to follow San Luis in this change.
 301  301  #
 302  302  # The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
 303  303  # hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
 304  304  # a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
 305  305  # independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
 306  306  # 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed).
 307  307  
 308  308  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-25):
 309  309  # Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis
 310  310  # time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most
 311  311  # important pages of 2008."
 312  312  #
 313  313  # You can use
 314  314  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834
 315  315  # instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis
 316  316  # government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages
 317  317  # from which the first one is identical to the above.
 318  318  
 319  319  # From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28):
 320  320  # I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that
 321  321  # province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
 322  322  # (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back
 323  323  # 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round
 324  324  # (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now).
 325  325  #
 326  326  # So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San
 327  327  # Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be
 328  328  # America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's
 329  329  # history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-(
 330  330  # (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis
 331  331  # back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
 332  332  # mailed them personally and never got an answer).
 333  333  
 334  334  # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
 335  335  # Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
 336  336  # 1992, from the IATA otherwise.  As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
 337  337  # America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
 338  338  # was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
 339  339  # keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
 340  340  # other 5 subregions.
 341  341  
 342  342  # From Mariano Absatz (2009-03-13):
 343  343  # Yesterday (with our usual 2-day notice) the Province of San Luis
 344  344  # decided that next Sunday instead of "staying" @utc-03:00 they will go
 345  345  # to utc-04:00 until the second Saturday in October...
 346  346  #
 347  347  # The press release is at
 348  348  # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/SL/Paginas/NoticiaDetalle.asp?TemaId=1&InfoPrensaId=3102
 349  349  # (I couldn't find the decree, but www.sanluis.gov.ar
 350  350  # is the official page for the Province Government.)
 351  351  #
 352  352  # There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
 353  353  # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
 354  354  #
 355  355  # The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
 356  356  # ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
 357  357  # inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
 358  358  #
 359  359  # Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
 360  360  # during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
 361  361  # in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
 362  362  
 363  363  # From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16):
 364  364  # ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself.
 365  365  #
 366  366  # The Law at
 367  367  # http://www.diputadossanluis.gov.ar/diputadosasp/paginas/verNorma.asp?NormaID=276
 368  368  # is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in
 369  369  # October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the
 370  370  # complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and
 371  371  # ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00.
 372  372  #
 373  373  # This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday.
 374  374  #
 375  375  # IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd
 376  376  # Sunday of October and March.
 377  377  #
 378  378  # The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did
 379  379  # change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees
 380  380  # that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March.
 381  381  #
 382  382  # In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday
 383  383  # (October 11th) at 0:00.
 384  384  #
 385  385  # So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last
 386  386  # America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these...
 387  387  #
 388  388  # I'm enclosing a patch that does what I say... regretfully, the San Luis
 389  389  # timezone must be called "WART/WARST" even when most of the time (like,
 390  390  # right now) WARST == ART... that is, since last Sunday, all the country
 391  391  # is using UTC-3, but in my patch, San Luis calls it "WARST" and the rest
 392  392  # of the country calls it "ART".
 393  393  # ...
 394  394  
 395  395  # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
 396  396  # According to news reports from El Diario de la República Province San
 397  397  # Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
 398  398  # after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
 399  399  # Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
 400  400  #
 401  401  # Confirmaron la prórroga del huso horario de verano (Spanish)
 402  402  # http://www.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29383&Itemid=9
 403  403  # or (some English translation):
 404  404  # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina08.html
 405  405  
 406  406  # From Mariano Absatz (2010-04-12):
 407  407  # yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
 408  408  # UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
 409  409  # rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
 410  410  # stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
 411  411  
 412  412  # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-05):
 413  413  # Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4
 414  414  # with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
 415  415  # just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example,
 416  416  # http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
 417  417  # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
 418  418  # standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
 419  419  # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
 420  420  # plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
 421  421  # setting for time stamps past 2038.
 422  422  
 423  423  # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
 424  424  # Milne says Córdoba time was -4:16:48.2.  Round to the nearest second.
 425  425  
 426  426  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 427  427  #
 428  428  # Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
 429  429  Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT      1894 Oct 31
 430  430                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 431  431                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 432  432                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 433  433                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 434  434                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 435  435                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 436  436  #
 437  437  # Córdoba (CB), Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN),
 438  438  # Chaco (CC), Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE)
 439  439  #
 440  440  # Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified:
 441  441  # - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
 442  442  # - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
 443  443  # - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
 444  444  # - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
 445  445  #   then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
 446  446  #
 447  447  Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 448  448                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 449  449                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 450  450                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 451  451                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 452  452                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 453  453                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 454  454                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 455  455                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 456  456  #
 457  457  # Salta (SA), La Pampa (LP), Neuquén (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
 458  458  Zone America/Argentina/Salta -4:21:40 - LMT     1894 Oct 31
 459  459                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 460  460                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 461  461                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 462  462                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 463  463                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 464  464                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 465  465                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 466  466                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 467  467                          -3:00   -       ART
 468  468  #
 469  469  # Tucumán (TM)
 470  470  Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 471  471                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 472  472                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 473  473                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 474  474                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 475  475                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 476  476                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 477  477                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 478  478                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 479  479                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 13
 480  480                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT
 481  481  #
 482  482  # La Rioja (LR)
 483  483  Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 484  484                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 485  485                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 486  486                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 487  487                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  1
 488  488                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 May  7
 489  489                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 490  490                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 491  491                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 492  492                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 493  493                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 494  494                          -3:00   -       ART
 495  495  #
 496  496  # San Juan (SJ)
 497  497  Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 498  498                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 499  499                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 500  500                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 501  501                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  1
 502  502                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 May  7
 503  503                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 504  504                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 505  505                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 31
 506  506                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jul 25
 507  507                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 508  508                          -3:00   -       ART
 509  509  #
 510  510  # Jujuy (JY)
 511  511  Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT     1894 Oct 31
 512  512                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 513  513                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 514  514                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 515  515                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990 Mar  4
 516  516                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 28
 517  517                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar 17
 518  518                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct  6
 519  519                          -3:00   1:00    ARST    1992
 520  520                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 521  521                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 522  522                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 523  523                          -3:00   -       ART
 524  524  #
 525  525  # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
 526  526  Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
 527  527                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 528  528                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 529  529                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 530  530                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1991 Mar  3
 531  531                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 20
 532  532                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 533  533                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 534  534                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 535  535                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 536  536                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 537  537                          -3:00   -       ART
 538  538  #
 539  539  # Mendoza (MZ)
 540  540  Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 541  541                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 542  542                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 543  543                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 544  544                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990 Mar  4
 545  545                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 15
 546  546                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar  1
 547  547                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Oct 15
 548  548                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1992 Mar  1
 549  549                          -4:00   -       WART    1992 Oct 18
 550  550                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 551  551                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 552  552                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 23
 553  553                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Sep 26
 554  554                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 555  555                          -3:00   -       ART
 556  556  #
 557  557  # San Luis (SL)
 558  558  
 559  559  Rule    SanLuis 2008    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
 560  560  Rule    SanLuis 2007    2008    -       Oct     Sun>=8  0:00    1:00    S
 561  561  
 562  562  Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT  1894 Oct 31
 563  563                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May
 564  564                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 565  565                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 566  566                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1990
 567  567                          -3:00   1:00    ARST    1990 Mar 14
 568  568                          -4:00   -       WART    1990 Oct 15
 569  569                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   1991 Mar  1
 570  570                          -4:00   -       WART    1991 Jun  1
 571  571                          -3:00   -       ART     1999 Oct  3
 572  572                          -4:00   1:00    WARST   2000 Mar  3
 573  573                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 31
 574  574                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jul 25
 575  575                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Jan 21
 576  576                          -4:00   SanLuis WAR%sT  2009 Oct 11
 577  577                          -3:00   -       ART
 578  578  #
 579  579  # Santa Cruz (SC)
 580  580  Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT      1894 Oct 31
 581  581                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 582  582                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 583  583                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 584  584                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 585  585                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 586  586                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 Jun  1
 587  587                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 588  588                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 589  589                          -3:00   -       ART
 590  590  #
 591  591  # Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (TF)
 592  592  Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT   1894 Oct 31
 593  593                          -4:16:48 -      CMT     1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
 594  594                          -4:00   -       ART     1930 Dec
 595  595                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
 596  596                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1999 Oct  3
 597  597                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   2000 Mar  3
 598  598                          -3:00   -       ART     2004 May 30
 599  599                          -4:00   -       WART    2004 Jun 20
 600  600                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   2008 Oct 18
 601  601                          -3:00   -       ART
 602  602  
 603  603  # Aruba
 604  604  Link America/Curacao America/Aruba
 605  605  
 606  606  # Bolivia
 607  607  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 608  608  Zone    America/La_Paz  -4:32:36 -      LMT     1890
 609  609                          -4:32:36 -      CMT     1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT
 610  610                          -4:32:36 1:00   BOST    1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST
 611  611                          -4:00   -       BOT     # Bolivia Time
 612  612  
 613  613  # Brazil
 614  614  
 615  615  # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
 616  616  # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
 617  617  # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
 618  618  # The rule change lasted only part of the day;
 619  619  # the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business
 620  620  # was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon.
 621  621  
 622  622  # From IATA SSIM (1996-02):
 623  623  # _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS),
 624  624  # Santa Catarina (SC), Paraná (PR), São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ),
 625  625  # Espírito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Goiás (GO),
 626  626  # Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL].
 627  627  # [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.]
 628  628  
 629  629  # From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07):
 630  630  # Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Goiás until 1989), and other
 631  631  # sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were
 632  632  # always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST....
 633  633  # The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91.  Each issue from then until
 634  634  # 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95,
 635  635  # along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2
 636  636  # (UTC-4)....  The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is
 637  637  # UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is
 638  638  # UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's
 639  639  # become part of the state of Pernambuco).  The boundary between BR1 and BR2
 640  640  # has never been clearly stated.  They've simply been called East and West.
 641  641  # However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline
 642  642  # Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil.  For each
 643  643  # airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM.  From that
 644  644  # information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amapá (AP), Ceará (CE),
 645  645  # Maranhão (MA), Paraíba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piauí (PI), and Rio Grande do
 646  646  # Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Pará (PA) are all in BR1 without DST.
 647  647  
 648  648  # From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27):
 649  649  # Brazilian official page <http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html>
 650  650  
 651  651  # From Jesper Nørgaard (2000-11-03):
 652  652  # [For an official list of which regions in Brazil use which time zones, see:]
 653  653  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
 654  654  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
 655  655  
 656  656  # From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
 657  657  # The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
 658  658  #
 659  659  # Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
 660  660  # the results are known almost immediately.  Yesterday, it was the first
 661  661  # round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
 662  662  # Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies.  Nobody is
 663  663  # counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
 664  664  # round for the Presidency and also for some Governors.  The 2nd round will
 665  665  # take place on October 27th.
 666  666  #
 667  667  # The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
 668  668  # of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
 669  669  # Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
 670  670  # the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
 671  671  # (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
 672  672  
 673  673  # From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
 674  674  # It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
 675  675  # modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
 676  676  # with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
 677  677  
 678  678  # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20):
 679  679  # Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00:
 680  680  # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975
 681  681  
 682  682  # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
 683  683  # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
 684  684  # Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
 685  685  # effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
 686  686  #
 687  687  # a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
 688  688  # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
 689  689  # timezone UTC+4
 690  690  # b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
 691  691  # part of it, as was before.
 692  692  #
 693  693  # This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that
 694  694  # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying
 695  695  # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone
 696  696  # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections
 697  697  # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This
 698  698  # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,
 699  699  # 1913.
 700  700  
 701  701  # From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24):
 702  702  # Just correcting the URL:
 703  703  # https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=25/04/2008
 704  704  #
 705  705  # As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco
 706  706  # timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall
 707  707  # be created to represent the...west side of the Pará State. I
 708  708  # suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most
 709  709  # important/populated city in the affected area.
 710  710  #
 711  711  # This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to
 712  712  # the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4.
 713  713  
 714  714  # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24):
 715  715  # This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map.
 716  716  # http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php
 717  717  #
 718  718  # - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones - eliminating time zone UTC-05
 719  719  # (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT-04) - western
 720  720  # part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC-03 (from UTC-04).
 721  721  
 722  722  # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
 723  723  # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
 724  724  # Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
 725  725  # http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
 726  726  
 727  727  # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
 728  728  # As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
 729  729  # yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and
 730  730  # it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on
 731  731  # past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that
 732  732  # the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year.
 733  733  #
 734  734  # It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
 735  735  #
 736  736  # An official page about it:
 737  737  # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722
 738  738  # Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed
 739  739  # by going to
 740  740  # http://www.mme.gov.br/first
 741  741  #
 742  742  # One example link that works directly:
 743  743  # http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54
 744  744  # (Portuguese)
 745  745  #
 746  746  # We have a written a short article about it as well:
 747  747  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html
 748  748  #
 749  749  # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-04):
 750  750  # State Bahia will return to Daylight savings time this year after 8 years off.
 751  751  # The announcement was made by Governor Jaques Wagner in an interview to a
 752  752  # television station in Salvador.
 753  753  
 754  754  # In Portuguese:
 755  755  # http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/10/governador-jaques-wagner-confirma-horario-de-verao-na-bahia.html
 756  756  # http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
 757  757  
 758  758  # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
 759  759  # There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
 760  760  # I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at http://pcdsh01.on.br/ the
 761  761  # official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
 762  762  # still in force.
 763  763  
 764  764  # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
 765  765  # It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
 766  766  # time.
 767  767  #        [ and in a second message (same day): ]
 768  768  # I found the decree.
 769  769  #
 770  770  # DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
 771  771  # Link :
 772  772  # http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
 773  773  
 774  774  # From Kelley Cook (2012-10-16):
 775  775  # The governor of state of Bahia in Brazil announced on Thursday that
 776  776  # due to public pressure, he is reversing the DST policy they implemented
 777  777  # last year and will not be going to Summer Time on October 21st....
 778  778  # http://www.correio24horas.com.br/r/artigo/apos-pressoes-wagner-suspende-horario-de-verao-na-bahia
 779  779  
 780  780  # From Rodrigo Severo (2012-10-16):
 781  781  # Tocantins state will have DST.
 782  782  # http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
 783  783  
 784  784  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
 785  785  # Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
 786  786  # http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
 787  787  # We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
 788  788  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
 789  789  
 790  790  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-10-17):
 791  791  # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html
 792  792  # Senator Jorge Viana announced that Acre will change time zone on November 10.
 793  793  # He did not specify the time of the change, nor if western parts of Amazonas
 794  794  # will change as well.
 795  795  #
 796  796  # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-17):
 797  797  # For now, assume western Amazonas will change as well.
 798  798  
 799  799  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 800  800  # Decree 20,466 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm> (1931-10-01)
 801  801  # Decree 21,896 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm> (1932-01-10)
 802  802  Rule    Brazil  1931    only    -       Oct      3      11:00   1:00    S
 803  803  Rule    Brazil  1932    1933    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
 804  804  Rule    Brazil  1932    only    -       Oct      3       0:00   1:00    S
 805  805  # Decree 23,195 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm> (1933-10-10)
 806  806  # revoked DST.
 807  807  # Decree 27,496 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm> (1949-11-24)
 808  808  # Decree 27,998 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm> (1950-04-13)
 809  809  Rule    Brazil  1949    1952    -       Dec      1       0:00   1:00    S
 810  810  Rule    Brazil  1950    only    -       Apr     16       1:00   0       -
 811  811  Rule    Brazil  1951    1952    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
 812  812  # Decree 32,308 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm> (1953-02-24)
 813  813  Rule    Brazil  1953    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 814  814  # Decree 34,724 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm> (1953-11-30)
 815  815  # revoked DST.
 816  816  # Decree 52,700 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm> (1963-10-18)
 817  817  # established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00
 818  818  # in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought.
 819  819  # Decree 53,071 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm> (1963-12-03)
 820  820  # extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09.
 821  821  Rule    Brazil  1963    only    -       Dec      9       0:00   1:00    S
 822  822  # Decree 53,604 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm> (1964-02-25)
 823  823  # extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school).
 824  824  Rule    Brazil  1964    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 825  825  # Decree 55,639 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm> (1965-01-27)
 826  826  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Jan     31       0:00   1:00    S
 827  827  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Mar     31       0:00   0       -
 828  828  # Decree 57,303 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm> (1965-11-22)
 829  829  Rule    Brazil  1965    only    -       Dec      1       0:00   1:00    S
 830  830  # Decree 57,843 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm> (1966-02-18)
 831  831  Rule    Brazil  1966    1968    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 832  832  Rule    Brazil  1966    1967    -       Nov      1       0:00   1:00    S
 833  833  # Decree 63,429 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm> (1968-10-15)
 834  834  # revoked DST.
 835  835  # Decree 91,698 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm> (1985-09-27)
 836  836  Rule    Brazil  1985    only    -       Nov      2       0:00   1:00    S
 837  837  # Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21)
 838  838  # Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13)
 839  839  Rule    Brazil  1986    only    -       Mar     15       0:00   0       -
 840  840  # Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01)
 841  841  Rule    Brazil  1986    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 842  842  Rule    Brazil  1987    only    -       Feb     14       0:00   0       -
 843  843  # Decree 94,922 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm> (1987-09-22)
 844  844  Rule    Brazil  1987    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 845  845  Rule    Brazil  1988    only    -       Feb      7       0:00   0       -
 846  846  # Decree 96,676 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm> (1988-09-12)
 847  847  # except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory)
 848  848  Rule    Brazil  1988    only    -       Oct     16       0:00   1:00    S
 849  849  Rule    Brazil  1989    only    -       Jan     29       0:00   0       -
 850  850  # Decree 98,077 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm> (1989-08-21)
 851  851  # with the same exceptions
 852  852  Rule    Brazil  1989    only    -       Oct     15       0:00   1:00    S
 853  853  Rule    Brazil  1990    only    -       Feb     11       0:00   0       -
 854  854  # Decree 99,530 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm> (1990-09-17)
 855  855  # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF.
 856  856  # Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT.
 857  857  Rule    Brazil  1990    only    -       Oct     21       0:00   1:00    S
 858  858  Rule    Brazil  1991    only    -       Feb     17       0:00   0       -
 859  859  # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm> (1991-09-25)
 860  860  # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF.
 861  861  Rule    Brazil  1991    only    -       Oct     20       0:00   1:00    S
 862  862  Rule    Brazil  1992    only    -       Feb      9       0:00   0       -
 863  863  # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm> (1992-10-16)
 864  864  # adopted by same states.
 865  865  Rule    Brazil  1992    only    -       Oct     25       0:00   1:00    S
 866  866  Rule    Brazil  1993    only    -       Jan     31       0:00   0       -
 867  867  # Decree 942 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm> (1993-09-28)
 868  868  # adopted by same states, plus AM.
 869  869  # Decree 1,252 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm> (1994-09-22;
 870  870  # web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM.
 871  871  # Decree 1,636 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm> (1995-09-14)
 872  872  # adopted by same states, plus MT and TO.
 873  873  # Decree 1,674 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm> (1995-10-13)
 874  874  # adds AL, SE.
 875  875  Rule    Brazil  1993    1995    -       Oct     Sun>=11  0:00   1:00    S
 876  876  Rule    Brazil  1994    1995    -       Feb     Sun>=15  0:00   0       -
 877  877  Rule    Brazil  1996    only    -       Feb     11       0:00   0       -
 878  878  # Decree 2,000 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm> (1996-09-04)
 879  879  # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
 880  880  Rule    Brazil  1996    only    -       Oct      6       0:00   1:00    S
 881  881  Rule    Brazil  1997    only    -       Feb     16       0:00   0       -
 882  882  # From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
 883  883  # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
 884  884  # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
 885  885  # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
 886  886  # This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1
 887  887  # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
 888  888  #
 889  889  # Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states.
 890  890  Rule    Brazil  1997    only    -       Oct      6       0:00   1:00    S
 891  891  # Decree 2,495 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG>
 892  892  # (1998-02-10)
 893  893  Rule    Brazil  1998    only    -       Mar      1       0:00   0       -
 894  894  # Decree 2,780 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg> (1998-09-11)
 895  895  # adopted by the same states as before.
 896  896  Rule    Brazil  1998    only    -       Oct     11       0:00   1:00    S
 897  897  Rule    Brazil  1999    only    -       Feb     21       0:00   0       -
 898  898  # Decree 3,150 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif>
 899  899  # (1999-08-23) adopted by same states.
 900  900  # Decree 3,188 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif> (1999-09-30)
 901  901  # adds SE, AL, PB, PE, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR.
 902  902  Rule    Brazil  1999    only    -       Oct      3       0:00   1:00    S
 903  903  Rule    Brazil  2000    only    -       Feb     27       0:00   0       -
 904  904  # Decree 3,592 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DEC3592.htm> (2000-09-06)
 905  905  # adopted by the same states as before.
 906  906  # Decree 3,630 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3630.jpg> (2000-10-13)
 907  907  # repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00.
 908  908  # Decree 3,632 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3632.jpg> (2000-10-17)
 909  909  # repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
 910  910  # Decree 3,916 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif>
 911  911  # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
 912  912  Rule    Brazil  2000    2001    -       Oct     Sun>=8   0:00   1:00    S
 913  913  Rule    Brazil  2001    2006    -       Feb     Sun>=15  0:00   0       -
 914  914  # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
 915  915  # 4,399 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm>
 916  916  Rule    Brazil  2002    only    -       Nov      3       0:00   1:00    S
 917  917  # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO.
 918  918  # 4,844 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm>
 919  919  Rule    Brazil  2003    only    -       Oct     19       0:00   1:00    S
 920  920  # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.
 921  921  # 5,223 <http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
 922  922  Rule    Brazil  2004    only    -       Nov      2       0:00   1:00    S
 923  923  # Decree 5,539 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif> (2005-09-19),
 924  924  # adopted by the same states as before.
 925  925  Rule    Brazil  2005    only    -       Oct     16       0:00   1:00    S
 926  926  # Decree 5,920 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5920.gif> (2006-10-03),
 927  927  # adopted by the same states as before.
 928  928  Rule    Brazil  2006    only    -       Nov      5       0:00   1:00    S
 929  929  Rule    Brazil  2007    only    -       Feb     25       0:00   0       -
 930  930  # Decree 6,212 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif> (2007-09-26),
 931  931  # adopted by the same states as before.
 932  932  Rule    Brazil  2007    only    -       Oct     Sun>=8   0:00   1:00    S
 933  933  # From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10):
 934  934  # According to this decree
 935  935  # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm
 936  936  # [t]he DST period in Brazil now on will be from the 3rd Oct Sunday to the
 937  937  # 3rd Feb Sunday. There is an exception on the return date when this is
 938  938  # the Carnival Sunday then the return date will be the next Sunday...
 939  939  Rule    Brazil  2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
 940  940  Rule    Brazil  2008    2011    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 941  941  Rule    Brazil  2012    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 942  942  Rule    Brazil  2013    2014    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 943  943  Rule    Brazil  2015    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 944  944  Rule    Brazil  2016    2022    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 945  945  Rule    Brazil  2023    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 946  946  Rule    Brazil  2024    2025    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 947  947  Rule    Brazil  2026    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 948  948  Rule    Brazil  2027    2033    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 949  949  Rule    Brazil  2034    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 950  950  Rule    Brazil  2035    2036    -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 951  951  Rule    Brazil  2037    only    -       Feb     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
 952  952  # From Arthur David Olson (2008-09-29):
 953  953  # The next is wrong in some years but is better than nothing.
 954  954  Rule    Brazil  2038    max     -       Feb     Sun>=15 0:00    0       -
 955  955  
 956  956  # The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST:
 957  957  # DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
 958  958  
 959  959  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 960  960  #
 961  961  # Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE)
 962  962  Zone America/Noronha    -2:09:40 -      LMT     1914
 963  963                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   1990 Sep 17
 964  964                          -2:00   -       FNT     1999 Sep 30
 965  965                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   2000 Oct 15
 966  966                          -2:00   -       FNT     2001 Sep 13
 967  967                          -2:00   Brazil  FN%sT   2002 Oct  1
 968  968                          -2:00   -       FNT
 969  969  # Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement.
 970  970  # These include Trindade and Martim Vaz (administratively part of ES),
 971  971  # Rocas Atoll (RN), and the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (PE).
 972  972  # Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01;
 973  973  # it also included the Penedos.
 974  974  #
 975  975  # Amapá (AP), east Pará (PA)
 976  976  # East Pará includes Belém, Marabá, Serra Norte, and São Félix do Xingu.
 977  977  # The division between east and west Pará is the river Xingu.
 978  978  # In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess,
 979  979  # the border with Amapá) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu.
 980  980  Zone America/Belem      -3:13:56 -      LMT     1914
 981  981                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1988 Sep 12
 982  982                          -3:00   -       BRT
 983  983  #
 984  984  # west Pará (PA)
 985  985  # West Pará includes Altamira, Óbidos, Prainha, Oriximiná, and Santarém.
 986  986  Zone America/Santarem   -3:38:48 -      LMT     1914
 987  987                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
 988  988                          -4:00   -       AMT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
 989  989                          -3:00   -       BRT
 990  990  #
 991  991  # Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
 992  992  # Paraíba (PB)
 993  993  Zone America/Fortaleza  -2:34:00 -      LMT     1914
 994  994                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
 995  995                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
 996  996                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 22
 997  997                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
 998  998                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
 999  999                          -3:00   -       BRT
1000 1000  #
1001 1001  # Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
1002 1002  Zone America/Recife     -2:19:36 -      LMT     1914
1003 1003                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1004 1004                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
1005 1005                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 15
1006 1006                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
1007 1007                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
1008 1008                          -3:00   -       BRT
1009 1009  #
1010 1010  # Tocantins (TO)
1011 1011  Zone America/Araguaina  -3:12:48 -      LMT     1914
1012 1012                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1013 1013                          -3:00   -       BRT     1995 Sep 14
1014 1014                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2003 Sep 24
1015 1015                          -3:00   -       BRT     2012 Oct 21
1016 1016                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2013 Sep
1017 1017                          -3:00   -       BRT
1018 1018  #
1019 1019  # Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
1020 1020  Zone America/Maceio     -2:22:52 -      LMT     1914
1021 1021                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1990 Sep 17
1022 1022                          -3:00   -       BRT     1995 Oct 13
1023 1023                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1996 Sep  4
1024 1024                          -3:00   -       BRT     1999 Sep 30
1025 1025                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2000 Oct 22
1026 1026                          -3:00   -       BRT     2001 Sep 13
1027 1027                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2002 Oct  1
1028 1028                          -3:00   -       BRT
1029 1029  #
1030 1030  # Bahia (BA)
1031 1031  # There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead
1032 1032  # of America/Salvador.
1033 1033  Zone America/Bahia      -2:34:04 -      LMT     1914
1034 1034                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2003 Sep 24
1035 1035                          -3:00   -       BRT     2011 Oct 16
1036 1036                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   2012 Oct 21
1037 1037                          -3:00   -       BRT
1038 1038  #
1039 1039  # Goiás (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
1040 1040  # Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Paraná (PR),
1041 1041  # Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
1042 1042  Zone America/Sao_Paulo  -3:06:28 -      LMT     1914
1043 1043                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT   1963 Oct 23  0:00
1044 1044                          -3:00   1:00    BRST    1964
1045 1045                          -3:00   Brazil  BR%sT
1046 1046  #
1047 1047  # Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
1048 1048  Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 -    LMT     1914
1049 1049                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT
1050 1050  #
1051 1051  # Mato Grosso (MT)
1052 1052  Zone America/Cuiaba     -3:44:20 -      LMT     1914
1053 1053                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   2003 Sep 24
1054 1054                          -4:00   -       AMT     2004 Oct  1
1055 1055                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT
1056 1056  #
1057 1057  # Rondônia (RO)
1058 1058  Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 -     LMT     1914
1059 1059                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1060 1060                          -4:00   -       AMT
1061 1061  #
1062 1062  # Roraima (RR)
1063 1063  Zone America/Boa_Vista  -4:02:40 -      LMT     1914
1064 1064                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1065 1065                          -4:00   -       AMT     1999 Sep 30
1066 1066                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   2000 Oct 15
1067 1067                          -4:00   -       AMT
1068 1068  #
1069 1069  # east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Jutaí, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto
1070 1070  # The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides
1071 1071  # east from west Amazonas.
1072 1072  Zone America/Manaus     -4:00:04 -      LMT     1914
1073 1073                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1988 Sep 12
1074 1074                          -4:00   -       AMT     1993 Sep 28
1075 1075                          -4:00   Brazil  AM%sT   1994 Sep 22
1076 1076                          -4:00   -       AMT
1077 1077  #
1078 1078  # west Amazonas (AM): Atalaia do Norte, Boca do Maoco, Benjamin Constant,
1079 1079  #       Eirunepé, Envira, Ipixuna
1080 1080  Zone America/Eirunepe   -4:39:28 -      LMT     1914
1081 1081                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1988 Sep 12
1082 1082                          -5:00   -       ACT     1993 Sep 28
1083 1083                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1994 Sep 22
1084 1084                          -5:00   -       ACT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
1085 1085                          -4:00   -       AMT     2013 Nov 10
1086 1086                          -5:00   -       ACT
1087 1087  #
1088 1088  # Acre (AC)
1089 1089  Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 -      LMT     1914
1090 1090                          -5:00   Brazil  AC%sT   1988 Sep 12
1091 1091                          -5:00   -       ACT     2008 Jun 24  0:00
1092 1092                          -4:00   -       AMT     2013 Nov 10
1093 1093                          -5:00   -       ACT
1094 1094  
1095 1095  # Chile
1096 1096  
1097 1097  # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-03):
1098 1098  # Shanks & Pottenger says America/Santiago introduced standard time in
1099 1099  # 1890 and rounds its UTC offset to 70W40; guess that in practice this
1100 1100  # was the same offset as in 1916-1919.  It also says Pacific/Easter
1101 1101  # standardized on 109W22 in 1890; assume this didn't change the clocks.
1102 1102  #
1103 1103  # Dates for America/Santiago from 1910 to 2004 are primarily from
1104 1104  # the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
1105 1105  # [1] Chile Law
1106 1106  # http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
1107 1107  # This contains a copy of a this official table:
1108 1108  # Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
1109 1109  # http://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1110 1110  # [1] needs several corrections, though.
1111 1111  #
1112 1112  # The first set of corrections is from:
1113 1113  # [2] History of the Official Time of Chile
1114 1114  # http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html (retrieved 2012-03-06).  See:
1115 1115  # http://web.archive.org/web/20120306042032/http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html
1116 1116  # This is an English translation of:
1117 1117  # Historia de la hora oficial de Chile (retrieved 2012-10-24).  See:
1118 1118  # http://web.archive.org/web/20121024234627/http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm
1119 1119  # A fancier Spanish version (requiring mouse-clicking) is at:
1120 1120  # http://www.horaoficial.cl/historia_hora.html
1121 1121  # Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
1122 1122  #
1123 1123  #  - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
1124 1124  #    Boletín No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910).  Go with [2].
1125 1125  #
1126 1126  #  - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
1127 1127  #    1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
1128 1128  #    Astronomical Observatory (OAN), then located in what is now
1129 1129  #    Quinta Normal in Santiago.  Go with [2], rounding it to -4:42:46.
1130 1130  #
1131 1131  #  - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
1132 1132  #    Boletín No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23).  Go with [2].
1133 1133  #
1134 1134  #  - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
1135 1135  #    at midnight mainland time, the current common practice.  However,
1136 1136  #    go with [2]'s specification of 23:00 for the 1947-05-21 transition.
1137 1137  #
1138 1138  # Another correction to [1] is from Jesper Nørgaard Welen, who
1139 1139  # wrote (2006-10-08), "I think that there are some obvious mistakes in
1140 1140  # the suggested link from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66
1141 1141  # says that GMT-4 ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at
1142 1142  # 1990-09-15 (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16
1143 1143  # respectively), but anyhow it clears up some doubts too."
1144 1144  #
1145 1145  # Data for Pacific/Easter from 1910 through 1967 come from Shanks &
1146 1146  # Pottenger.  After that, for lack of better info assume
1147 1147  # Pacific/Easter is always two hours behind America/Santiago;
1148 1148  # this is known to work for DST transitions starting in 2008 and
1149 1149  # may well be true for earlier transitions.
1150 1150  
1151 1151  # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
1152 1152  # The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
1153 1153  # of October....  The law is the same for March and October.
1154 1154  # (1998-09-29):
1155 1155  # Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
1156 1156  # DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
1157 1157  # (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).
1158 1158  
1159 1159  # From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18):
1160 1160  # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
1161 1161  # on April 3, (one-time change).
1162 1162  
1163 1163  # From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
1164 1164  # Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks.  This
1165 1165  # is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
1166 1166  # and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
1167 1167  # The Supreme Decree is located at
1168 1168  # http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
1169 1169  #
1170 1170  # From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
1171 1171  # http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
1172 1172  
1173 1173  # From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
1174 1174  # Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
1175 1175  # http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
1176 1176  #
1177 1177  # From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
1178 1178  # Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
1179 1179  
1180 1180  # From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
1181 1181  # http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
1182 1182  # In English:
1183 1183  # Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
1184 1184  # of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
1185 1185  # August, not in October as they have since 1968.
1186 1186  
1187 1187  # From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
1188 1188  # As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
1189 1189  # http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
1190 1190  # The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
1191 1191  # (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012....
1192 1192  # Quote from the website communication:
1193 1193  #
1194 1194  # 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
1195 1195  # a. Saturday April 28, 2012, clocks should go back 60 minutes; that is, at
1196 1196  # 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
1197 1197  # of the same day.
1198 1198  # b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
1199 1199  # at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
1200 1200  # 01:00 on September 2.
1201 1201  
1202 1202  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
1203 1203  # According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
1204 1204  # they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned.  They
1205 1205  # hope to save energy.  The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
1206 1206  # start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
1207 1207  # http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
1208 1208  
1209 1209  # From José Miguel Garrido (2014-02-19):
1210 1210  # Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
1211 1211  # dates to 2014.
1212 1212  # DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
1213 1213  # DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
  
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1214 1214  # http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
1215 1215  
1216 1216  # From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
1217 1217  # Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
1218 1218  # permanently until March 25 of 2017
1219 1219  # http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/1-large.jpg
1220 1220  #
1221 1221  # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
1222 1222  # For now, assume that the extension will persist indefinitely.
1223 1223  
     1224 +# From Juan Correa (2016-03-18):
     1225 +# The decree regarding DST has been published in today's Official Gazette:
     1226 +# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do/20160318/
     1227 +# http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1088502
     1228 +# It does consider the second Saturday of May and August as the dates
     1229 +# for the transition; and it lists DST dates until 2019, but I think
     1230 +# this scheme will stick.
     1231 +#
     1232 +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
     1233 +# For now, assume the pattern holds for the indefinite future.
     1234 +# The decree says transitions occur at 24:00; in practice this appears
     1235 +# to mean 24:00 mainland time, not 24:00 local time, so that Easter
     1236 +# Island is always two hours behind the mainland.
     1237 +
1224 1238  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1225 1239  Rule    Chile   1927    1931    -       Sep      1      0:00    1:00    S
1226 1240  Rule    Chile   1928    1932    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1227 1241  Rule    Chile   1968    only    -       Nov      3      4:00u   1:00    S
1228 1242  Rule    Chile   1969    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1229 1243  Rule    Chile   1969    only    -       Nov     23      4:00u   1:00    S
1230 1244  Rule    Chile   1970    only    -       Mar     29      3:00u   0       -
1231 1245  Rule    Chile   1971    only    -       Mar     14      3:00u   0       -
1232 1246  Rule    Chile   1970    1972    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1233 1247  Rule    Chile   1972    1986    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1234 1248  Rule    Chile   1973    only    -       Sep     30      4:00u   1:00    S
1235 1249  Rule    Chile   1974    1987    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1236 1250  Rule    Chile   1987    only    -       Apr     12      3:00u   0       -
1237 1251  Rule    Chile   1988    1990    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1238 1252  Rule    Chile   1988    1989    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1239 1253  Rule    Chile   1990    only    -       Sep     16      4:00u   1:00    S
1240 1254  Rule    Chile   1991    1996    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1241 1255  Rule    Chile   1991    1997    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1242 1256  Rule    Chile   1997    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1243 1257  Rule    Chile   1998    only    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1244 1258  Rule    Chile   1998    only    -       Sep     27      4:00u   1:00    S
  
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1245 1259  Rule    Chile   1999    only    -       Apr      4      3:00u   0       -
1246 1260  Rule    Chile   1999    2010    -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1247 1261  Rule    Chile   2000    2007    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1248 1262  # N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
1249 1263  # which is used below in specifying the transition.
1250 1264  Rule    Chile   2008    only    -       Mar     30      3:00u   0       -
1251 1265  Rule    Chile   2009    only    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
1252 1266  Rule    Chile   2010    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  3:00u   0       -
1253 1267  Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       May     Sun>=2  3:00u   0       -
1254 1268  Rule    Chile   2011    only    -       Aug     Sun>=16 4:00u   1:00    S
1255      -Rule    Chile   2012    2015    -       Apr     Sun>=23 3:00u   0       -
     1269 +Rule    Chile   2012    2014    -       Apr     Sun>=23 3:00u   0       -
1256 1270  Rule    Chile   2012    2014    -       Sep     Sun>=2  4:00u   1:00    S
     1271 +Rule    Chile   2016    max     -       May     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
     1272 +Rule    Chile   2016    max     -       Aug     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
1257 1273  # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
1258 1274  # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08.  Ignore these.
1259 1275  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1260 1276  Zone America/Santiago   -4:42:46 -      LMT     1890
1261 1277                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
1262 1278                          -5:00   -       CLT     1916 Jul  1 # Chile Time
1263 1279                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1918 Sep 10
1264 1280                          -4:00   -       CLT     1919 Jul  1
1265 1281                          -4:42:46 -      SMT     1927 Sep  1
1266 1282                          -5:00   Chile   CL%sT   1932 Sep  1
1267 1283                          -4:00   -       CLT     1942 Jun  1
1268 1284                          -5:00   -       CLT     1942 Aug  1
1269 1285                          -4:00   -       CLT     1946 Jul 15
1270 1286                          -4:00   1:00    CLST    1946 Sep  1 # central Chile
1271 1287                          -4:00   -       CLT     1947 Apr  1
1272 1288                          -5:00   -       CLT     1947 May 21 23:00
1273      -                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT   2015 Apr 26  3:00u
1274      -                        -3:00   -       CLT
     1289 +                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT
1275 1290  Zone Pacific/Easter     -7:17:28 -      LMT     1890
1276 1291                          -7:17:28 -      EMT     1932 Sep    # Easter Mean Time
1277 1292                          -7:00   Chile   EAS%sT  1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
1278      -                        -6:00   Chile   EAS%sT  2015 Apr 26 3:00u
1279      -                        -5:00   -       EAST
     1293 +                        -6:00   Chile   EAS%sT
1280 1294  #
1281 1295  # Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
1282 1296  # Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
1283 1297  # and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
1284 1298  
1285 1299  # Antarctic base using South American rules
1286 1300  # (See the file 'antarctica' for more.)
1287 1301  #
1288 1302  # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
1289 1303  #
1290 1304  # From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
  
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1291 1305  # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
1292 1306  # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
1293 1307  # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
1294 1308  # Palmer has followed Chile.  Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
1295 1309  # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
1296 1310  #
1297 1311  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1298 1312  Zone Antarctica/Palmer  0       -       zzz     1965
1299 1313                          -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
1300 1314                          -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1982 May
1301      -                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT   2015 Apr 26 3:00u
1302      -                        -3:00   -       CLT
     1315 +                        -4:00   Chile   CL%sT
1303 1316  
1304 1317  # Colombia
1305 1318  
1306 1319  # Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogotá time in 1899; round to nearest.  He writes,
1307 1320  # "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
1308 1321  
1309 1322  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1310 1323  Rule    CO      1992    only    -       May      3      0:00    1:00    S
1311 1324  Rule    CO      1993    only    -       Apr      4      0:00    0       -
1312 1325  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1313 1326  Zone    America/Bogota  -4:56:16 -      LMT     1884 Mar 13
1314 1327                          -4:56:16 -      BMT     1914 Nov 23 # Bogotá Mean Time
1315 1328                          -5:00   CO      CO%sT   # Colombia Time
1316 1329  # Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
1317 1330  # no information; probably like America/Bogota
1318 1331  
1319 1332  # Curaçao
1320 1333  
1321 1334  # Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curaçao mean time; round to nearest.
1322 1335  #
1323 1336  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1324 1337  # Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at
1325 1338  # -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that
1326 1339  # Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from
1327 1340  # 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01.  The former is dubious, since S&P also say
1328 1341  # Saba Island has been like Curaçao.
1329 1342  # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though.
1330 1343  #
1331 1344  # By July 2007 Curaçao and St Maarten are planned to become
1332 1345  # associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba;
1333 1346  # Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the
1334 1347  # Netherlands as Kingdom Islands.  This won't affect their time zones
1335 1348  # though, as far as we know.
1336 1349  #
1337 1350  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1338 1351  Zone    America/Curacao -4:35:47 -      LMT     1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
1339 1352                          -4:30   -       ANT     1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time
1340 1353                          -4:00   -       AST
1341 1354  
1342 1355  # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
1343 1356  # use links for places with new iso3166 codes.
1344 1357  # The name "Lower Prince's Quarter" is both longer than fourteen characters
1345 1358  # and contains an apostrophe; use "Lower_Princes" below.
1346 1359  
1347 1360  Link    America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes   # Sint Maarten
1348 1361  Link    America/Curacao America/Kralendijk      # Caribbean Netherlands
1349 1362  
1350 1363  # Ecuador
1351 1364  #
1352 1365  # Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
1353 1366  #
1354 1367  # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04):
1355 1368  # Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992.
1356 1369  # <http://midena.gov.ec/content/view/1261/208/> (2007-02-27) and
1357 1370  # <http://www.hoy.com.ec/NoticiaNue.asp?row_id=249856> (2006-11-06) both
1358 1371  # talk about "hora Sixto".  Leave this alone for now, as we have no data.
1359 1372  #
1360 1373  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1361 1374  Zone America/Guayaquil  -5:19:20 -      LMT     1890
1362 1375                          -5:14:00 -      QMT     1931 # Quito Mean Time
1363 1376                          -5:00   -       ECT     # Ecuador Time
1364 1377  Zone Pacific/Galapagos  -5:58:24 -      LMT     1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
1365 1378                          -5:00   -       ECT     1986
1366 1379                          -6:00   -       GALT    # Galápagos Time
1367 1380  
1368 1381  # Falklands
1369 1382  
1370 1383  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1371 1384  # Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except
1372 1385  # the IATA gives 1996-09-08.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1373 1386  
1374 1387  # From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22)
1375 1388  # via Jesper Nørgaard:
1376 1389  # ... the clocks revert back to Local Mean Time at 2 am on Sunday 15
1377 1390  # April 2001 and advance one hour to summer time at 2 am on Sunday 2
1378 1391  # September.  It is anticipated that the clocks will revert back at 2
1379 1392  # am on Sunday 21 April 2002 and advance to summer time at 2 am on
1380 1393  # Sunday 1 September.
1381 1394  
1382 1395  # From Rives McDow (2001-02-13):
1383 1396  #
1384 1397  # I have communicated several times with people there, and the last
1385 1398  # time I had communications that was helpful was in 1998.  Here is
1386 1399  # what was said then:
1387 1400  #
1388 1401  # "The general rule was that Stanley used daylight saving and the Camp
1389 1402  # did not. However for various reasons many people in the Camp have
1390 1403  # started to use daylight saving (known locally as 'Stanley Time')
1391 1404  # There is no rule as to who uses daylight saving - it is a matter of
1392 1405  # personal choice and so it is impossible to draw a map showing who
1393 1406  # uses it and who does not. Any list would be out of date as soon as
1394 1407  # it was produced. This year daylight saving ended on April 18/19th
1395 1408  # and started again on September 12/13th.  I do not know what the rule
1396 1409  # is, but can find out if you like.  We do not change at the same time
1397 1410  # as UK or Chile."
1398 1411  #
1399 1412  # I did have in my notes that the rule was "Second Saturday in Sep at
1400 1413  # 0:00 until third Saturday in Apr at 0:00".  I think that this does
1401 1414  # not agree in some cases with Shanks; is this true?
1402 1415  #
1403 1416  # Also, there is no mention in the list that some areas in the
1404 1417  # Falklands do not use DST.  I have found in my communications there
1405 1418  # that these areas are on the western half of East Falkland and all of
1406 1419  # West Falkland.  Stanley is the only place that consistently observes
1407 1420  # DST.  Again, as in other places in the world, the farmers don't like
1408 1421  # it.  West Falkland is almost entirely sheep farmers.
1409 1422  #
1410 1423  # I know one lady there that keeps a list of which farm keeps DST and
1411 1424  # which doesn't each year.  She runs a shop in Stanley, and says that
1412 1425  # the list changes each year.  She uses it to communicate to her
1413 1426  # customers, catching them when they are home for lunch or dinner.
1414 1427  
1415 1428  # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1416 1429  # For now, we'll just record the time in Stanley, since we have no
1417 1430  # better info.
1418 1431  
1419 1432  # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-04-01):
1420 1433  # The Falkland Islands will not turn back clocks this winter, but stay on
1421 1434  # daylight saving time.
1422 1435  #
1423 1436  # One source:
1424 1437  # http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=5914&source=3
1425 1438  #
1426 1439  # We have gotten this confirmed by a clerk of the legislative assembly:
1427 1440  # Normally the clocks revert to Local Mean Time (UTC/GMT -4 hours) on the
1428 1441  # third Sunday of April at 0200hrs and advance to Summer Time (UTC/GMT -3
1429 1442  # hours) on the first Sunday of September at 0200hrs.
1430 1443  #
1431 1444  # IMPORTANT NOTE: During 2011, on a trial basis, the Falkland Islands
1432 1445  # will not revert to local mean time, but clocks will remain on Summer
1433 1446  # time (UTC/GMT - 3 hours) throughout the whole of 2011.  Any long term
1434 1447  # change to local time following the trial period will be notified.
1435 1448  #
1436 1449  # From Andrew Newman (2012-02-24)
1437 1450  # A letter from Justin McPhee, Chief Executive,
1438 1451  # Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands (dated 2012-02-22)
1439 1452  # states...
1440 1453  #   The current Atlantic/Stanley entry under South America expects the
1441 1454  #   clocks to go back to standard Falklands Time (FKT) on the 15th April.
1442 1455  #   The database entry states that in 2011 Stanley was staying on fixed
1443 1456  #   summer time on a trial basis only.  FIG need to contact IANA and/or
1444 1457  #   the maintainers of the database to inform them we're adopting
1445 1458  #   the same policy this year and suggest recommendations for future years.
1446 1459  #
1447 1460  # For now we will assume permanent summer time for the Falklands
1448 1461  # until advised differently (to apply for 2012 and beyond, after the 2011
1449 1462  # experiment was apparently successful.)
1450 1463  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1451 1464  Rule    Falk    1937    1938    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1452 1465  Rule    Falk    1938    1942    -       Mar     Sun>=19 0:00    0       -
1453 1466  Rule    Falk    1939    only    -       Oct     1       0:00    1:00    S
1454 1467  Rule    Falk    1940    1942    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1455 1468  Rule    Falk    1943    only    -       Jan     1       0:00    0       -
1456 1469  Rule    Falk    1983    only    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1457 1470  Rule    Falk    1984    1985    -       Apr     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1458 1471  Rule    Falk    1984    only    -       Sep     16      0:00    1:00    S
1459 1472  Rule    Falk    1985    2000    -       Sep     Sun>=9  0:00    1:00    S
1460 1473  Rule    Falk    1986    2000    -       Apr     Sun>=16 0:00    0       -
1461 1474  Rule    Falk    2001    2010    -       Apr     Sun>=15 2:00    0       -
1462 1475  Rule    Falk    2001    2010    -       Sep     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
1463 1476  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1464 1477  Zone Atlantic/Stanley   -3:51:24 -      LMT     1890
1465 1478                          -3:51:24 -      SMT     1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
1466 1479                          -4:00   Falk    FK%sT   1983 May    # Falkland Is Time
1467 1480                          -3:00   Falk    FK%sT   1985 Sep 15
1468 1481                          -4:00   Falk    FK%sT   2010 Sep  5  2:00
1469 1482                          -3:00   -       FKST
1470 1483  
1471 1484  # French Guiana
1472 1485  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1473 1486  Zone America/Cayenne    -3:29:20 -      LMT     1911 Jul
1474 1487                          -4:00   -       GFT     1967 Oct # French Guiana Time
1475 1488                          -3:00   -       GFT
1476 1489  
1477 1490  # Guyana
1478 1491  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1479 1492  Zone    America/Guyana  -3:52:40 -      LMT     1915 Mar    # Georgetown
1480 1493                          -3:45   -       GBGT    1966 May 26 # Br Guiana Time
1481 1494                          -3:45   -       GYT     1975 Jul 31 # Guyana Time
1482 1495                          -3:00   -       GYT     1991
1483 1496  # IATA SSIM (1996-06) says -4:00.  Assume a 1991 switch.
1484 1497                          -4:00   -       GYT
1485 1498  
1486 1499  # Paraguay
1487 1500  #
1488 1501  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1489 1502  # Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are 01:00 -> 02:00,
1490 1503  # and autumn transitions are 00:00 -> 23:00.  Go with pre-1999
1491 1504  # editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00.
1492 1505  #
1493 1506  # From Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (2013-09-20):
1494 1507  # No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
1495 1508  # adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
1496 1509  #
1497 1510  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1498 1511  Rule    Para    1975    1988    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1499 1512  Rule    Para    1975    1978    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1500 1513  Rule    Para    1979    1991    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1501 1514  Rule    Para    1989    only    -       Oct     22      0:00    1:00    S
1502 1515  Rule    Para    1990    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1503 1516  Rule    Para    1991    only    -       Oct      6      0:00    1:00    S
1504 1517  Rule    Para    1992    only    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1505 1518  Rule    Para    1992    only    -       Oct      5      0:00    1:00    S
1506 1519  Rule    Para    1993    only    -       Mar     31      0:00    0       -
1507 1520  Rule    Para    1993    1995    -       Oct      1      0:00    1:00    S
1508 1521  Rule    Para    1994    1995    -       Feb     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1509 1522  Rule    Para    1996    only    -       Mar      1      0:00    0       -
1510 1523  # IATA SSIM (2000-02) says 1999-10-10; ignore this for now.
1511 1524  # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-02):
1512 1525  # I have three independent reports that Paraguay changed to DST this Sunday
1513 1526  # (10-01).
1514 1527  #
1515 1528  # Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
1516 1529  # Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
1517 1530  # http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
1518 1531  # Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
1519 1532  # fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power....  The time change
1520 1533  # system has been operating for several years.  Formerly there was a separate
1521 1534  # decree each year; the new law has the same effect, but permanently.  Every
1522 1535  # year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the
1523 1536  # clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March.
1524 1537  #
1525 1538  Rule    Para    1996    2001    -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1526 1539  # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1527 1540  Rule    Para    1997    only    -       Feb     lastSun 0:00    0       -
1528 1541  # Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but
1529 1542  # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
1530 1543  Rule    Para    1998    2001    -       Mar     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
1531 1544  # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
1532 1545  # A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
1533 1546  # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
1534 1547  # April.
1535 1548  Rule    Para    2002    2004    -       Apr     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
1536 1549  Rule    Para    2002    2003    -       Sep     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1537 1550  #
1538 1551  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-01-02):
1539 1552  # There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made
1540 1553  # a timezone rule change in autumn 2004.
1541 1554  # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
1542 1555  # Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
1543 1556  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
1544 1557  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
1545 1558  Rule    Para    2004    2009    -       Oct     Sun>=15 0:00    1:00    S
1546 1559  Rule    Para    2005    2009    -       Mar     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
1547 1560  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18):
1548 1561  # By decree number 3958 issued yesterday
1549 1562  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decreto3958.pdf
1550 1563  # Paraguay changes its DST schedule, postponing the March rule to April and
1551 1564  # modifying the October date. The decree reads:
1552 1565  # ...
1553 1566  # Art. 1. It is hereby established that from the second Sunday of the month of
1554 1567  # April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
1555 1568  # and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
1556 1569  # forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
1557 1570  # ...
1558 1571  Rule    Para    2010    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
1559 1572  Rule    Para    2010    2012    -       Apr     Sun>=8  0:00    0       -
1560 1573  #
1561 1574  # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
1562 1575  # Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
1563 1576  # http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
1564 1577  #
1565 1578  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2013-03-15):
1566 1579  # The change in Paraguay is now final.  Decree number 10780
1567 1580  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
1568 1581  # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2014-02-28):
1569 1582  # Decree 1264 can be found at:
1570 1583  # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/archivos/documentos/DECRETO1264_ey9r8zai.pdf
1571 1584  Rule    Para    2013    max     -       Mar     Sun>=22 0:00    0       -
1572 1585  
1573 1586  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1574 1587  Zone America/Asuncion   -3:50:40 -      LMT     1890
1575 1588                          -3:50:40 -      AMT     1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time
1576 1589                          -4:00   -       PYT     1972 Oct    # Paraguay Time
1577 1590                          -3:00   -       PYT     1974 Apr
1578 1591                          -4:00   Para    PY%sT
1579 1592  
1580 1593  # Peru
1581 1594  #
1582 1595  # From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26)
1583 1596  # <news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>:
1584 1597  # When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over
1585 1598  # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon.
1586 1599  #
1587 1600  # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1588 1601  # Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition.  Assume 1986 was like 1987.
1589 1602  
1590 1603  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1591 1604  Rule    Peru    1938    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1592 1605  Rule    Peru    1938    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1593 1606  Rule    Peru    1938    1939    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1:00    S
1594 1607  Rule    Peru    1939    1940    -       Mar     Sun>=24 0:00    0       -
1595 1608  Rule    Peru    1986    1987    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1596 1609  Rule    Peru    1986    1987    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1597 1610  Rule    Peru    1990    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1598 1611  Rule    Peru    1990    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1599 1612  # IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1600 1613  Rule    Peru    1994    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    1:00    S
1601 1614  Rule    Peru    1994    only    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
1602 1615  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1603 1616  Zone    America/Lima    -5:08:12 -      LMT     1890
1604 1617                          -5:08:36 -      LMT     1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time?
1605 1618                          -5:00   Peru    PE%sT   # Peru Time
1606 1619  
1607 1620  # South Georgia
1608 1621  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1609 1622  Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 -  LMT     1890 # Grytviken
1610 1623                          -2:00   -       GST     # South Georgia Time
1611 1624  
1612 1625  # South Sandwich Is
1613 1626  # uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered
1614 1627  
1615 1628  # Suriname
1616 1629  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1617 1630  Zone America/Paramaribo -3:40:40 -      LMT     1911
1618 1631                          -3:40:52 -      PMT     1935     # Paramaribo Mean Time
1619 1632                          -3:40:36 -      PMT     1945 Oct    # The capital moved?
1620 1633                          -3:30   -       NEGT    1975 Nov 20 # Dutch Guiana Time
1621 1634                          -3:30   -       SRT     1984 Oct    # Suriname Time
1622 1635                          -3:00   -       SRT
1623 1636  
1624 1637  # Trinidad and Tobago
1625 1638  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1626 1639  Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -   LMT     1912 Mar 2
1627 1640                          -4:00   -       AST
1628 1641  
1629 1642  # These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970.
1630 1643  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla
1631 1644  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Antigua
1632 1645  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica
1633 1646  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada
1634 1647  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe
1635 1648  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot      # St Martin (French part)
1636 1649  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Montserrat
1637 1650  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy # St Barthélemy
1638 1651  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Kitts     # St Kitts & Nevis
1639 1652  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Lucia
1640 1653  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Thomas    # Virgin Islands (US)
1641 1654  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Vincent
1642 1655  Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Tortola      # Virgin Islands (UK)
1643 1656  
1644 1657  # Uruguay
1645 1658  # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
1646 1659  # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
1647 1660  # From Shanks & Pottenger:
1648 1661  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
1649 1662  # Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1650 1663  Rule    Uruguay 1923    only    -       Oct      2       0:00   0:30    HS
1651 1664  Rule    Uruguay 1924    1926    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
1652 1665  Rule    Uruguay 1924    1925    -       Oct      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1653 1666  Rule    Uruguay 1933    1935    -       Oct     lastSun  0:00   0:30    HS
1654 1667  # Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 1 0:00 & 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman.
1655 1668  Rule    Uruguay 1934    1936    -       Mar     Sat>=25 23:30s  0       -
1656 1669  Rule    Uruguay 1936    only    -       Nov      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1657 1670  Rule    Uruguay 1937    1941    -       Mar     lastSun  0:00   0       -
1658 1671  # Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1659 1672  Rule    Uruguay 1937    1940    -       Oct     lastSun  0:00   0:30    HS
1660 1673  # Whitman gives 1941 Oct 24 - 1942 Mar 27, 1942 Dec 14 - 1943 Apr 13,
1661 1674  # and 1943 Apr 13 "to present time"; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1662 1675  Rule    Uruguay 1941    only    -       Aug      1       0:00   0:30    HS
1663 1676  Rule    Uruguay 1942    only    -       Jan      1       0:00   0       -
1664 1677  Rule    Uruguay 1942    only    -       Dec     14       0:00   1:00    S
1665 1678  Rule    Uruguay 1943    only    -       Mar     14       0:00   0       -
1666 1679  Rule    Uruguay 1959    only    -       May     24       0:00   1:00    S
1667 1680  Rule    Uruguay 1959    only    -       Nov     15       0:00   0       -
1668 1681  Rule    Uruguay 1960    only    -       Jan     17       0:00   1:00    S
1669 1682  Rule    Uruguay 1960    only    -       Mar      6       0:00   0       -
1670 1683  Rule    Uruguay 1965    1967    -       Apr     Sun>=1   0:00   1:00    S
1671 1684  Rule    Uruguay 1965    only    -       Sep     26       0:00   0       -
1672 1685  Rule    Uruguay 1966    1967    -       Oct     31       0:00   0       -
1673 1686  Rule    Uruguay 1968    1970    -       May     27       0:00   0:30    HS
1674 1687  Rule    Uruguay 1968    1970    -       Dec      2       0:00   0       -
1675 1688  Rule    Uruguay 1972    only    -       Apr     24       0:00   1:00    S
1676 1689  Rule    Uruguay 1972    only    -       Aug     15       0:00   0       -
1677 1690  Rule    Uruguay 1974    only    -       Mar     10       0:00   0:30    HS
1678 1691  Rule    Uruguay 1974    only    -       Dec     22       0:00   1:00    S
1679 1692  Rule    Uruguay 1976    only    -       Oct      1       0:00   0       -
1680 1693  Rule    Uruguay 1977    only    -       Dec      4       0:00   1:00    S
1681 1694  Rule    Uruguay 1978    only    -       Apr      1       0:00   0       -
1682 1695  Rule    Uruguay 1979    only    -       Oct      1       0:00   1:00    S
1683 1696  Rule    Uruguay 1980    only    -       May      1       0:00   0       -
1684 1697  Rule    Uruguay 1987    only    -       Dec     14       0:00   1:00    S
1685 1698  Rule    Uruguay 1988    only    -       Mar     14       0:00   0       -
1686 1699  Rule    Uruguay 1988    only    -       Dec     11       0:00   1:00    S
1687 1700  Rule    Uruguay 1989    only    -       Mar     12       0:00   0       -
1688 1701  Rule    Uruguay 1989    only    -       Oct     29       0:00   1:00    S
1689 1702  # Shanks & Pottenger say no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2,
1690 1703  # and that 1992/3's DST was from 10-25 to 03-01.  Go with IATA.
1691 1704  Rule    Uruguay 1990    1992    -       Mar     Sun>=1   0:00   0       -
1692 1705  Rule    Uruguay 1990    1991    -       Oct     Sun>=21  0:00   1:00    S
1693 1706  Rule    Uruguay 1992    only    -       Oct     18       0:00   1:00    S
1694 1707  Rule    Uruguay 1993    only    -       Feb     28       0:00   0       -
1695 1708  # From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
1696 1709  # The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
1697 1710  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm
1698 1711  Rule    Uruguay 2004    only    -       Sep     19       0:00   1:00    S
1699 1712  # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
1700 1713  # Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to
1701 1714  # save energy ... it was postponed two weeks....
1702 1715  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2005/03/2005031005.htm
1703 1716  Rule    Uruguay 2005    only    -       Mar     27       2:00   0       -
1704 1717  # From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27):
1705 1718  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/decretos/2005/09/CM%20119_09%2009%202005_00001.PDF
1706 1719  # This means that from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at
1707 1720  # 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
1708 1721  Rule    Uruguay 2005    only    -       Oct      9       2:00   1:00    S
1709 1722  Rule    Uruguay 2006    only    -       Mar     12       2:00   0       -
1710 1723  # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
1711 1724  # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF
1712 1725  #
1713 1726  # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
1714 1727  # ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
1715 1728  # http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
1716 1729  # http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
1717 1730  # From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
1718 1731  # Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
1719 1732  # instead of out to dinner.
1720 1733  # From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
1721 1734  # http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
1722 1735  # [dated 2015-06-29; repeals Decree 311/006 dated 2006-09-04]
1723 1736  Rule    Uruguay 2006    2014    -       Oct     Sun>=1   2:00   1:00    S
1724 1737  Rule    Uruguay 2007    2015    -       Mar     Sun>=8   2:00   0       -
1725 1738  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1726 1739  Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 -      LMT     1898 Jun 28
1727 1740                          -3:44:44 -      MMT     1920 May  1 # Montevideo MT
1728 1741                          -3:30   Uruguay UY%sT   1942 Dec 14 # Uruguay Time
1729 1742                          -3:00   Uruguay UY%sT
1730 1743  
1731 1744  # Venezuela
1732 1745  #
1733 1746  # From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
1734 1747  # For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
1735 1748  # http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
1736 1749  #
1737 1750  # From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
1738 1751  # ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
1739 1752  # been brought forward to 2007-12-09.  The official announcement was
1740 1753  # published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana
1741 1754  # de Venezuela, número 38.819" (official document for all laws or
1742 1755  # resolution publication)
1743 1756  # http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
1744 1757  
1745 1758  # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1746 1759  Zone    America/Caracas -4:27:44 -      LMT     1890
1747 1760                          -4:27:40 -      CMT     1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
1748 1761                          -4:30   -       VET     1965 Jan  1  0:00 # Venezuela T.
1749 1762                          -4:00   -       VET     2007 Dec  9  3:00
1750 1763                          -4:30   -       VET
  
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