From 636e6f983bca35e6f945e092ffdc315ae3e5dd9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 09:57:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (Thanks to Heitor David Pinto and Even Scharning.) * NEWS: Mention this. * southamerica (Para): Stop DST transitions in fall 2024. (America/Asuncion): Switch to -03 without DST in spring 2024. * zonenow.tab (America/Asuncion): Remove, since it’s equivalent to America/Sao_Paulo starting tomorrow and we won’t have a new TZDB release before tomorrow. Until then, you can check with ‘make CHECK_NOW_TIMESTAMP=1728187201 check’. --- NEWS | 9 +++++++++ southamerica | 16 +++++++++++++--- zonenow.tab | 3 --- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4a6fc7c..65fde911 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,8 +3,17 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes Briefly: + Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024. Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines. + Changes to future timestamps + + Paraguay will stop changing its clocks after the spring-forward + transition on 2024-10-06, so it is now permanently at -03. + (Thanks to Heitor David Pinto and Even Scharning.) + This affects timestamps starting 2025-03-22, as well as the + obsolescent tm_isdst flags starting 2024-10-06. + Changes to past timestamps Correct timestamps for the Philippines before 1900, and from 1937 diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index c8d9097a..24f92e24 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ Rule Para 2005 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set # forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic. # ... -Rule Para 2010 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 - +Rule Para 2010 2023 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 - Rule Para 2010 2012 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07): @@ -1706,14 +1706,24 @@ Rule Para 2010 2012 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # https://www.abc.com.py/politica/2023/07/12/promulgacion-el-cambio-de-hora-sera-por-ley/ # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2023-07-27): # http://silpy.congreso.gov.py/descarga/ley-144138 -Rule Para 2013 max - Mar Sun>=22 0:00 0 - +Rule Para 2013 2024 - Mar Sun>=22 0:00 0 - +# +# From Heitor David Pinto (2024-09-24): +# Today the Congress of Paraguay passed a bill to observe UTC-3 permanently.... +# The text of the bill says that it would enter into force on the first +# Sunday in October 2024, the same date currently scheduled to start DST.... +# https://silpy.congreso.gov.py/web/expediente/132531 +# From Even Scharning (2024-10-04): +# President Santiago Peña confirmed today that he will sign the bill. Source: +# https://www.ip.gov.py/ip/2024/10/04/ejecutivo-confirma-que-promulgara-ley-de-horario-unico-en-el-territorio-paraguayo/ # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 -3:50:40 - AMT 1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time -4:00 - %z 1972 Oct -3:00 - %z 1974 Apr - -4:00 Para %z + -4:00 Para %z 2024 Oct 6 0:00 + -3:00 - %z # Peru # diff --git a/zonenow.tab b/zonenow.tab index 050d8a7d..53545857 100644 --- a/zonenow.tab +++ b/zonenow.tab @@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ XX +1828-06954 America/Santo_Domingo Atlantic Standard ("AST") - eastern Caribbe # -04/-03 (Chile DST) XX -3327-07040 America/Santiago most of Chile # -# -04/-03 (Paraguay DST) -XX -2516-05740 America/Asuncion Paraguay -# # -04/-03 - AST/ADT (North America DST) XX +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic ("AST/ADT") - Canada; Bermuda # -- 2.43.0