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7481 Update zoneinfo to 2016h

@@ -408,13 +408,13 @@
 # UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
 # rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
 # stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
 
 # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-05):
-# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4
+# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at -04
 # with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
-# just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example,
+# just say it's at -03; see, for example,
 # http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
 # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
 # standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
 # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
 # plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ

@@ -1307,11 +1307,11 @@
 # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
 # Palmer has followed Chile.  Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
 # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
 #
 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
-Zone Antarctica/Palmer  0       -       zzz     1965
+Zone Antarctica/Palmer  0       -       -00     1965
                         -4:00   Arg     AR%sT   1969 Oct  5
                         -3:00   Arg     AR%sT   1982 May
                         -4:00   Chile   CL%sT
 
 # Colombia

@@ -1753,11 +1753,27 @@
 # published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana
 # de Venezuela, número 38.819" (official document for all laws or
 # resolution publication)
 # http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
 
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-04-15):
+# https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/204758-venezuela-modificar-huso-horario-sequia-elnino
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2016-04-15):
+# Clocks advance 30 minutes on 2016-05-01 at 02:30....
+# "'Venezuela's new time-zone: hours without light, hours without water,
+# hours of presidential broadcasts, hours of lines,' quipped comedian
+# Jean Mary Curró ...". See: Cawthorne A, Kai D. Venezuela scraps
+# half-hour time difference set by Chavez. Reuters 2016-04-15 14:50 -0400
+# http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-timezone-idUSKCN0XC2BE
+#
+# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-20):
+# ... published in the official Gazette [2016-04-18], here:
+# http://historico.tsj.gob.ve/gaceta_ext/abril/1842016/E-1842016-4551.pdf
+
 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 Zone    America/Caracas -4:27:44 -      LMT     1890
                         -4:27:40 -      CMT     1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
                         -4:30   -       VET     1965 Jan  1  0:00 # Venezuela T.
                         -4:00   -       VET     2007 Dec  9  3:00
-                        -4:30   -       VET
+                        -4:30   -       VET     2016 May  1  2:30
+                        -4:00   -       VET