On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:
From: "Law, Gwil Jr. " <Gwil_Law@bridge-point.com> Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:00:41 -0500
Paraguay: The beginning of DST in 1999 has been changed from October 3 to October 10, in both cases at midnight local time.
This is news; thanks! Unless better info arrives my next proposed patch will assume that they switch the 2nd Sunday in October and the last Sunday in February.
It is probably correct that they changed October 10, as I've also had a report on this back in October, but I was not able to get more information then.
Although the SSIM lists the beginning of DST in October, 1999, it may be that Argentina simply remained on standard time last October, but started thinking of it as DST.
Yes, that's what Rives McDow reported on 2000-01-10.
Argentina does not seem to turn back the clocks one hour on March 5 as expected. Actually, it seems that Argentina has simply been using their standard UTC-3 "all the time", with no UTC-4+DST at all. I have not been able to find this confirmed by a newspaper etc. yet, as most are written in Spanish. I got this message from Peter Gradelski (PGRADELSKI@bloomberg.net)
Good morning: accoring to your page, argentina will go off dst on march 5th but we just checked with our San Paulo office and they say the government of argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST. So buenos aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
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