From 0e5e10b5a50734a40a0ca8b25dfeec80e9da77d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:26:52 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] Ecuador observed DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) * NEWS: Document this. * southamerica (Ecuador): New rule. (America/Guayaquil, Pacific/Galapagos): Use it. --- NEWS | 3 +++ southamerica | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 145738f..2d9cbca 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes are probably guesswork anyway. (Thanks to Steve Allen and Pierpaolo Bernardi for the heads-ups.) + Ecuador observed DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05. + (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) + Asia/Atyrau and Asia/Oral were at +03 (not +04) before 1930-06-21. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index a6820ac..78f93ae 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -1354,19 +1354,32 @@ Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk # Caribbean Netherlands # # Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15. # -# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04): -# Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992. -# (2007-02-27) and -# (2006-11-06) both -# talk about "hora Sixto". Leave this alone for now, as we have no data. +# From Alois Treindl (2016-12-15): +# http://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/hora-sixto-1993.html +# ... Whether the law applied also to Galápagos, I do not know. +# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-15): +# http://www.elcomercio.com/afull/modificacion-husohorario-ecuador-presidentes-decreto.html +# This says President Sixto Durán Ballén signed decree No. 285, which +# established DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05; it does not give transition +# times. The people called it "hora de Sixto" ("Sixto hour"). The change did +# not go over well; a popular song "Qué hora es" by Jaime Guevara had lyrics +# that included "Amanecía en mitad de la noche, los guaguas iban a clase sin +# sol" ("It was dawning in the middle of the night, the buses went to class +# without sun"). Although Ballén's campaign slogan was "Ni un paso atrás" +# (Not one step back), the clocks went back in 1993 and the experiment was not +# repeated. For now, assume transitions were at 00:00 local time country-wide. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Ecuador 1992 only - Nov 28 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Ecuador 1993 only - Feb 5 0:00 0 - # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Guayaquil -5:19:20 - LMT 1890 -5:14:00 - QMT 1931 # Quito Mean Time - -5:00 - -05 + -5:00 Ecuador -05/-04 Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno -5:00 - -05 1986 - -6:00 - -06 + -6:00 Ecuador -06/-05 # Falklands -- 2.7.4