Typo. I think you mean "UTC-4 year round". Not +4. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Paul Eggert<mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: 8/19/2014 1:15 AM To: tz@iana.org<mailto:tz@iana.org> Subject: [tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * northamerica (TC, America/Grand_Turk): Switch from EST/EDT to AST. * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ northamerica | 12 +++++++++--- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1a78041..6fb00b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting future time stamps + + Turks & Caicos is switching from US eastern time to UTC+4 year-round, + modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. + Changes affecting past time stamps Time in Russia or the USSR before 1926 or so has been corrected by diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index c6ed74b..4c1d4bd 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -3117,16 +3117,22 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre # Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998) # says they switch at midnight. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. # +# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): +# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See: +# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm +# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule TC 1979 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule TC 1979 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule TC 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -Rule TC 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D -Rule TC 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S +Rule TC 2007 2014 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule TC 2007 2014 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time - -5:00 TC E%sT + -5:00 TC E%sT 2014 Nov 2 2:00 + -4:00 - AST # British Virgin Is # Virgin Is -- 1.9.1