>From e72a94ecd851e666d516cda7565bda2af76767b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 12:15:59 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED_PATCH] * northamerica (America/Grand_Turk): Delay AST switch until next year. (Thanks to Chris Walton.) * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ northamerica | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6845b99..8bd6f5b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting current and future time stamps + + Turks & Caicos' switch from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round + did not occur on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. It's currently scheduled + for 2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Chris Walton.) + Changes affecting past time stamps Many pre-1989 time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Seoul and @@ -158,6 +164,7 @@ Release 2014g - 2014-08-28 12:31:23 -0700 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. + [As noted in 2014j, this switch was later delayed.] Changes affecting past time stamps diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 87bd032..c91430c 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -3131,13 +3131,17 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre # 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. +# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... +# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): +# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to +# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... +# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm # # 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 - EST 1979 - -5:00 US E%sT 2014 Nov 2 2:00 + -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 -4:00 - AST # British Virgin Is -- 1.9.3