Turks & Caicos to resume DST; details unclear
According to an article published in the Bahamas website Magnetic Media, the cabinet of Turks & Caicos decided on Thursday to resume the practice of daylight saving time starting in 2018. The article does not give enough details to update the database (it confuses summer with winter time, among other things). My guess is that Turks & Caicos will revert to its pre-2015 practice of staying in sync with New York, which means that tzdb's predictions for its UTC offsets will become wrong in November 2018, and the abbreviations and tm_isdst flag will become wrong some time between March and November 2018 (although the article implies April, this could well be an error). When the cabinet and/or the Turks & Caicos Weekly News get around to publishing the details of the decision, we should be able to update tzdb to reflect this change with some accuracy. Gordon Z. PDM to reinstate Daylight Savings Time. Magnetic Media 2017-07-20. http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/07/pdm-to-reinstate-daylight-savings-time/ ("PDM" is the People's Democratic Movement.)
On 2017-07-22 19:14, Paul Eggert wrote:
According to an article published in the Bahamas website Magnetic Media, the cabinet of Turks & Caicos decided on Thursday to resume the practice of daylight saving time starting in 2018. The article does not give enough details to update the database (it confuses summer with winter time, among other things). My guess is that Turks & Caicos will revert to its pre-2015 practice of staying in sync with New York, which means that tzdb's predictions for its UTC offsets will become wrong in November 2018, and the abbreviations and tm_isdst flag will become wrong some time between March and November 2018 (although the article implies April, this could well be an error).
When the cabinet and/or the Turks & Caicos Weekly News get around to publishing the details of the decision, we should be able to update tzdb to reflect this change with some accuracy.
Gordon Z. PDM to reinstate Daylight Savings Time. Magnetic Media 2017-07-20. http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/07/pdm-to-reinstate-daylight-savings-time/
("PDM" is the People's Democratic Movement.)
TCI is a British Overseas Territory governed by the FCO. See point 9 about the middle of the page; no more useful details for now: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-sta... based on: https://www.gov.tc/pressoffice/799-office-of-the-premeir-public-consultation... More official details should appear under one of these sites. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I wrote on 2017-07-22:
When the cabinet and/or the Turks & Caicos Weekly News get around to publishing the details of the decision, we should be able to update tzdb to reflect this change with some accuracy.
Today the T&C Weekly News published the following announcement that the premier's office made before the hurricanes: "Cabinet has taken a decision on July 19, 2017, to reinstate the previous time zone of GMT-5 to take effect from November 5, 2018. This will result in seasonal time change to daylight saving time aligning with the Eastern Time zone of the USA." http://tcweeklynews.com/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-in-daylights-savings-time-... This doesn't sound plausible, since in 2018 the US is scheduled to switch back on November 4. Presumably the "November 5" is a typo. Perhaps they got confused because November 5 is the correct date for 2017.
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:05:55 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <a5f09c78-fb79-3249-27f2-3a6139ac940f@cs.ucla.edu> | This doesn't sound plausible, since in 2018 the US is scheduled to switch | back on November 4. Presumably the "November 5" is a typo. Either that, or the 2018 is a typo and they mean 2017. While we'd all like decisions like this to me made and announced 15 months in advance, that isn't typical politician behaviour, 3 months would be more typical. kre
The same typo is in the government's statement on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pressofficetcig/posts/1420271834735165 I asked for clarification there. I'm inclined to believe it is November 4th, 2018, given their previous statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-sta... "Following extensive public consultation which concluded in favour of change, agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST) during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 to allow sufficient time to notify the public and relevant local and international organisations of the change." Seems they've moved the date forward, but hopefully the "sufficient time" part is still in play. :) -Matt ________________________________ From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 9:39 PM To: Paul Eggert Cc: Time zone mailing list Subject: Re: [tz] Turks & Caicos to resume DST; details unclear Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:05:55 -0700 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <a5f09c78-fb79-3249-27f2-3a6139ac940f@cs.ucla.edu> | This doesn't sound plausible, since in 2018 the US is scheduled to switch | back on November 4. Presumably the "November 5" is a typo. Either that, or the 2018 is a typo and they mean 2017. While we'd all like decisions like this to me made and announced 15 months in advance, that isn't typical politician behaviour, 3 months would be more typical. kre
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