[Forwarded from Mark Brader, who emailed this to me October 26.]
From: msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:59:23 -0500 (EST)
Feel free to forward this to tz. I don't need to see any responses (I'll see them in the tz archives eventually anyway). This is all that tzdata has on Peru, unless it's been updated since the last time I looked. (I can't recheck it from home, because elsie.nci.nih.gov has not accepted FTP connections from shell.vex.net for several months.) ************************************************************************ # Peru # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Peru 1938 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1938 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1939 1940 - Mar Sun>=24 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1987 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1987 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1990 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1990 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks. Rule Peru 1994 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Lima -5:08:12 - LMT 1890 -5:08:36 - LMT 1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time? -5:00 Peru PE%sT # Peru Time ************************************************************************ Now, it's bizarre enough to see an equatorial country falling victim to DST in the first place, but these things happen -- but the dates shown from 1987 to 1994 make this case even weirder. However, here is evidence that the above is not the whole story. ************************************************************************ * From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <eleeper@optonline.net> * Newsgroups: rec.travel.usa-canada * Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time and train travel * Message-ID: <xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> * Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 02:37:17 GMT Hans-Christian Grosz wrote:
Susan Wachob wrote:
Is this particularly an American scheme? (hare-brained or clever- you choose)
It originated during World War 1st in Germany/Austria and was adopted afterwards by european countries and the us.
This one describes the "mess" around the world: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html
When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon. -- Evelyn C. Leeper http://www.geocities.com/evelynleeper We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block. --Bill Clinton ************************************************************************ I have already contacted Evelyn by email and she has confirmed that the years she mentions were the correct ones. So the obvious guess is that the same January 1 - April 1 pattern occurred in 1986, and perhaps in some other years around then. -- Mark Brader "Without nuclear weapons we will be nothing Toronto more than a rich, powerful Canada...." msb@vex.net -- A Walk in the Woods, by Lee Blessing