Steffen Thorsen wrote:
The Salta Province in Argentina will not use DST either, as announced on their official site: http://www.salta.gov.ar/ver_noticia.php?id=8009
Attaching a patch that - splits America/Argentina/Cordoba zone into .../Salta - splits America/Argentina/Catamarca into .../ComodRivadavia - adjusts ComodRivadavia's LMT zone per Mariano Absatz's calculations - drops ComodRivadavia from backlinks - addds both new zones into zone.tab PM diff -urp tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/backward tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/backward --- tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/backward 2008-09-10 04:33:26.000000000 +0200 +++ tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/backward 2008-10-16 15:50:23.000000000 +0200 @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Link Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera Link Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu -Link America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia Link America/Adak America/Atka Link America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires America/Buenos_Aires Link America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Catamarca Only in tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/: backward~ diff -urp 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 2008-10-17 14:21:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), -# Formosa (FM), Salta (SA), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), +# Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE), Cordoba (CB), # La Pampa (LP), Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) # # Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified: @@ -363,6 +363,17 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 Arg AR%sT +# Salta (SA) +Zone America/Argentina/Salta -4:16:48 - 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 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 + -3:00 - ART # # Tucuman (TM) Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -388,7 +399,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 -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 + -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 @@ -401,7 +413,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 -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 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19 + -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -417,7 +430,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # -# Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) +# Catamarca (CT) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec @@ -428,6 +441,20 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:0 -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/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - 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) @@ -445,7 +472,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 -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 + -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~ diff -urp tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/zone.tab tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/zone.tab --- tzdata-2008h/tzdata2008h/zone.tab 2008-10-08 14:35:57.000000000 +0200 +++ tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/zone.tab 2008-10-17 14:35:31.000000000 +0200 @@ -42,12 +42,14 @@ AQ -7824+10654 Antarctica/Vostok Vostok AQ -6640+14001 Antarctica/DumontDUrville Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie AQ -690022+0393524 Antarctica/Syowa Syowa Station, E Ongul I AR -3436-05827 America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF) -AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SA, SE, SF) +AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SE, SF) +AR -2447-06525 America/Argentina/Salta Salta (SA) AR -3319-06621 America/Argentina/San_Luis San Luis (SL) AR -2411-06518 America/Argentina/Jujuy Jujuy (JY) AR -2649-06513 America/Argentina/Tucuman Tucuman (TM) -AR -2828-06547 America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) +AR -2828-06547 America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT) AR -2926-06651 America/Argentina/La_Rioja La Rioja (LR) +AR -4551-06728 America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia Chubut (CH) AR -3132-06831 America/Argentina/San_Juan San Juan (SJ) AR -3253-06849 America/Argentina/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ) AR -5138-06913 America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos Santa Cruz (SC) Only in tzdata-2008h-2/tzdata2008h/: zone.tab~