Steffen Thorsen wrote:
Mariano Absatz - El Baby wrote:
and translate:
/Everything shows that starting this Sunday, Argentina will have two time zones. At least five provinces would not move forward the clocks. San Luis and Mendoza already confirmed it and in La Rioja, San Juan and Catamarca they say there is no oficial decision yet, but "very probably" they will not move the clock hands. They afirm that light and darkness hours do not agree with the lifestyle and customs in the provinces and that last year many people had problems to sleep./
It seems to be official in Catamarca and San Juan as well now, according to the press:
I'm eyeing the sources, and is seems to me that we need to split America/Argentina/Catamarca in two, one for Catamarca (which doesn't plan to introduce the DST), and one for Chubut (which does). The most populous city in Chubut, per wikipedia, is Comodoro Rivadavia, "often referred simply as Comodoro", hence the zone would be America/Argentina/Comodoro. The patch is attached that, I hope, implements the above changes, even though more commentary changes would probably be apt. Please comment. PM diff -rp tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/southamerica tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/southamerica *** tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/southamerica 2008-10-08 14:46:17.000000000 +0200 --- tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/southamerica 2008-10-16 13:21:53.000000000 +0200 *************** Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 *** 388,394 **** -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # San Juan (SJ) Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 --- 388,395 ---- -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 ! -3:00 - ART # # San Juan (SJ) Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 *************** Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 *** 401,407 **** -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 --- 402,409 ---- -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 ! -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 *************** Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - *** 417,423 **** -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # ! # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec --- 419,425 ---- -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # ! # Catamarca (CT) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec *************** Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:0 *** 428,433 **** --- 430,449 ---- -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 + -3:00 - ART + # + # Chubut (CH) + Zone America/Argentina/Comodoro -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 + -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May + -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3 + -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 + -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 + -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Mendoza (MZ) *************** Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 *** 445,451 **** -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23 -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # San Luis (SL) Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 --- 461,468 ---- -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23 -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 ! -3:00 - ART # # San Luis (SL) Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 Only in tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/: southamerica~