Turks & Caicos switched to U.S. DST dates?
On 2007-03-15 Chris Dunn reported to the Debian bug list that the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) changed their DST transition dates this year to match the U.S. dates; see Debian bug 415007 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007>. He made no mention of the time, so I guess we should continue to assume transitions at 00:00 local time. It'd be nice if someone could confirm this with a more-authoritative source.
I don't think this source is more-authoritative, but at least we are building a circumstancial case for the timezone court: See http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20070216daylight.html "In 2005, the U.S. government approved changes to the timing of observance of DST as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in a bid to conserve electricity by extending DST for a period of four weeks. Governments in Canada*, Bermuda, The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos made similar changes to their DST rules to be consistent with the U.S. time changes." Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:48:59 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
On 2007-03-15 Chris Dunn reported to the Debian bug list that the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) changed their DST transition dates this year to match the U.S. dates; see Debian bug 415007 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007>. He made no mention of the time, so I guess we should continue to assume transitions at 00:00 local time. It'd be nice if someone could confirm this with a more-authoritative source.
If you look at http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. -- Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> writes:
If you look at http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
Well spotted! Thanks. We had conflicting information before about whether the transitions are at 00:00 or 02:00. The IATA had the former, and Shanks & Pottenger the latter. I guessed the IATA, but apparently that was wrong. (Perhaps no airline flights are scheduled between 00:00 and 02:00 so the IATA doesn't care....)
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