>From bba6b9ac715c1a05cd06e979d862108c821f53d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:52:15 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Chile has stopped changing its clocks * NEWS: * antarctica (ChileAQ, Antarctica/Palmer): * southamerica (Chile, America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter): Chile will not change its clocks in April, or thereafter. Consider this to be their new standard time, effective April. (Thanks to Juan Correa.) --- NEWS | 4 ++++ antarctica | 9 +++++---- southamerica | 17 ++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b6b94a7..80c393f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes will shift from Central Time with DST to Eastern Time without DST on 2015-02-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Gwillim Law.) + Chile will not change clocks in April or thereafter; its new standard time + will be its old daylight saving time. This affects America/Santiago, + Pacific/Easter, and Antarctica/Palmer. (Thanks to Juan Correa.) + New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica index 1deff8e..ebae994 100644 --- a/antarctica +++ b/antarctica @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 2012 2015 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S # Argentina - year-round bases # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 @@ -354,9 +354,10 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 - -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May - -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT + -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u + -3:00 - CLT # # # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index bdc29c2..3ab353e 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -1206,6 +1206,11 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC) # http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf +# From Juan Correa (2015-01-28): +# ... today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep +# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round.... +# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html + # NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the # 'antarctica' file. @@ -1247,8 +1252,8 @@ Rule Chile 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - -Rule Chile 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 2012 2015 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1259,11 +1264,13 @@ Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890 -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time - -4:00 Chile CL%sT + -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u + -3:00 - CLT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890 -7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time - -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter Time - -6:00 Chile EAS%sT + -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 3:00u # Easter Time + -6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u + -5:00 - EAST # # Salas y G��mez Island is uninhabited. # Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fern��ndez Is, Desventuradas Is, -- 2.1.0