Hi, are the Argentina DST changes available in ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ ? thanks! Donatella Sabellico. "One Life. One Love. To love each other" http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ to search our Knowledge Base. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/support/probsub.html to log a problem online. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/supp_tech_exch.html to use the Support Technical Exchange. http://www-120.ibm.com/support/mysupport for notification of Flashes and New Downloads http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/Tivoli_Supported_Plat... for Tivoli products Support Matrix Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> 12/29/2007 01:57 AM Please respond to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov To tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov cc Mariano Absatz <baby@baby.com.ar> Subject Re: Proposed changes for Argentina, Jan Mayen, worldtimeengine.com, etc. Mariano Absatz <baby@baby.com.ar> writes:
Don't we have to change those also? (see the patch I posted in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2012 )
Oops, yes, sorry, I missed that part of it. However, the change can be made a bit more compact by adjusting the Rule line. Here's a revised patch, just for 'southamerica'. We've seen a lot of patches fly by; to avoid confusion, this 'southamerica' patch is relative to tzdata2007j, =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2007.10 retrieving revision 2007.10.0.4 diff -pu -r2007.10 -r2007.10.0.4 --- southamerica 2007/12/03 14:50:41 2007.10 +++ southamerica 2007/12/29 00:53:25 2007.10.0.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 8.13 +# @(#)southamerica 8.14 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1: # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours # from the International Date Line. Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28): +# DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted +# to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that +# it ended on March 3. +Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 - # # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01): # We just checked with our Sao Paulo office and they say the government of @@ -140,6 +144,30 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina. # We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21): +# A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST.... +# all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected. News reports like +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate +# that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to +# March, although exact rules are not given. +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-12-26) +# The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in +# the lower chamber too (Deputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against. +# By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to +# the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are +# clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval: +# <a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996"> +# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996 +# </a> +# +# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22): +# For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and +# are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. +Rule Arg 2007 only - Dec 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Arg 2008 max - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Arg 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S + # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21): # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing # its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night.... @@ -214,7 +242,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:5 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART + -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), @@ -237,7 +265,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 -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 + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Tucuman (TM) Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -250,7 +278,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 13 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # La Rioja (LR) Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -263,7 +291,7 @@ 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 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # San Juan (SJ) Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -276,7 +304,7 @@ 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 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -290,7 +318,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - -3:00 1:00 ARST 1992 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -303,7 +331,7 @@ 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 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Mendoza (MZ) Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -320,7 +348,7 @@ 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 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Santa Cruz (SC) Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -331,7 +359,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF) Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 @@ -342,7 +370,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 30 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART + -3:00 Arg AR%sT # Aruba # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Salvo che sia diversamente indicato sopra: / Unless stated otherwise above: IBM Italia S.p.A. 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