The "official instructions", which explain how Easter Island (b) and Antarctica and the continent (a) work as well, can now be found at: http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm Google Translate does a pretty good job on this page, so I won't bother to translate the whole thing. Also, unfortunately, I won't have time to create a patch this week, so if someone else could do so, I'd appreciate it. Hey, at least they gave us more than a few days notice this year. Thanks, -G.
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:43:03 -0000 From: "Hank W." <hankw1@austin.rr.com> Subject: Re: [tz] Chile DST extended
I assume that Easter Island and Palmer Station in Antarctica are following this year's special schedule as well. Correct?
-----Original Message----- From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Steffen Thorsen Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 18:53 To: tz@iana.org Subject: [tz] Chile DST extended
According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year, they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned. They hope to save energy.
The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new start date is 2013-09-08 00:00.
One such news source: http://www.elboyaldia.cl/node/21913
Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
-- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory