Opposition to Cayman DST
Currently tzdata is guessing that Cayman will introduce daylight saving time this year. This is not official, though. There is opposition in the Legislative Assembly, and if the LA rejects it we will need to update tzdata. Ragoonath R. Gov’t Daylight Savings Time plans to get resistance in LA. Cayman Reporter 2016-01-08. http://www.caymanreporter.com/2016/01/08/govt-daylight-savings-time-plans-ge...
Indeed, multiple news reports that the government has confirmed plans to introduce DST have been shelved. https://caymannewsservice.com/2016/01/daylight-saving-time-plans-shelvedhttp... Video:http://www.cayman27.ky/blog/2016/01/public-pressure-puts-stop-daylight-savin...
To: tz@iana.org From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:38:20 -0800 Subject: [tz] Opposition to Cayman DST
Currently tzdata is guessing that Cayman will introduce daylight saving time this year. This is not official, though. There is opposition in the Legislative Assembly, and if the LA rejects it we will need to update tzdata.
Ragoonath R. Gov’t Daylight Savings Time plans to get resistance in LA. Cayman Reporter 2016-01-08. http://www.caymanreporter.com/2016/01/08/govt-daylight-savings-time-plans-ge...
On 01/25/2016 08:45 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
Indeed, multiple news reports that the government has confirmed plans to introduce DST have been shelved.
Thanks for the heads-up. We should generate a new tzdata version soon, as the latest stable release has an incorrect prediction about Cayman. It's simplest and probably best to revert the recent Cayman-related changes, as in the attached proposed patch.
A complex area, timewise: http://OnTimeZone.com/images/caribbean.jpg (includes recent changes in Quinta Roo and the Turks and Caicos.) (magenta lines = time zone borders) (blue lines = dst observance borders) I wonder if the recent thaw in US/Cuban relations will have any tangential change in economic relationship between the Caymans and Cuba. If so it might increase pressure to adopt DST. Steve Jones OnTimeZone.com
Steve Jones wrote:
I wonder if the recent thaw in US/Cuban relations will have any tangential change in economic relationship between the Caymans and Cuba. If so it might increase pressure to adopt DST.
The recently-shot-down proposal in the Cayman Islands would have used New York style transitions (change at 02:00), not Havana style (change at 00:00). A primary argument for the proposal was to synchronize better with US financial institutions. Wayne Panton, Minister of Financial Services, Commerce and Environment, said: “The global economic environment is challenging and we need to be doing everything we can to align ourselves with our major markets. Everyone wants growth and opportunities for their children but to achieve that we have to be able to adapt. Everything cannot remain as it has been since 1969.” I wonder why Panton said “1969”? According to our admittedly unreliable sources, the Cayman Islands have not changed their Universal Time offset for over a century. Did the “1969” come because an aide whipped up an application that consulted the tz database but stopped at the 1970 POSIX cutoff? Curious. My source: Minister disappointed over daylight savings U-turn. Cayman News 2016-01-25. https://cnsbusiness.com/2016/01/25/minister-disappointed-over-daylight-savin...
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