AFAIK, as the 1999 Timezone Law was never effective, so there was no DST applied during that period... El 1 Feb 2002 a las 21:15, Paul Eggert escribió:
From: "Mariano Absatz" <baby@baby.com.ar> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:39:00 -0300
now that I browse your proposed changes I see that the change to DST that was to happen in 1999/2000 (and never came to life, see the thread "Changes in Argentina (or not)" starting June 6, 2001) are still reflected in the tables.
In fact, there are 2 entries in EVERY zone in Argentina of the form:
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
to cancel the effect of the rules:
Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
Wouldn't it be more simple to just erase all of them (including the rules, obviously)?
Yes, thanks, that would simplify the tables, and it wouldn't affect the offset from UTC; but it would be a change nevertheless. It would change both the time zone abbreviation ("ART" versus "ARST") and the indicator of whether daylight-saving time was in effect at the time (tm_isdst, in the C programming language).
My impression is that the period in question was considered to be daylight-saving time. That is why the tables are written the way they are. If I'm wrong about that, please let me know.
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