Chile's Aysén Region polled about switching from -04/-03 to -03 all year
Beginning this week and continuing through the end of the month, the citizens of Chile's Aysén Region are being polled virtually for a non-binding resolution[1] to switch from the their current timekeeping regime TZ="America/Santiago" (-04 in winter, -03 in summer) to permanent -03 (like TZ="America/Punta_Arenas"). If this happens, we'll need to create a new Zone America/Coyhaique to record the change, which would likely have practical effect on 2025-04-05 at the earliest. Unfortunately, the SurveyMonkey form used for the poll requires no authentication, which raised plausible worries this week about ballot-stuffing[2]. [1]: https://www.diarioregionalaysen.cl/noticia/actualidad/2024/11/lanzan-consult... [2]: https://www.diarioregionalaysen.cl/noticia/actualidad/2024/11/encuesta-sobre...
Diario Regional Aysén's Sebastián Martel reports[1] that 94% of Aysén citizens polled in November favored changing the rules from -04/-03-with-DST to -03 all year, and that the wheels have been set in motion to do it. I guess this would affect clocks starting April 5, when Aysén is currently scheduled to fall back from -03 to -04. Any change requires further action by authorities in Santiago, so the change might not happen or might happen at some other date, and I have not drafted a proposed change to TZDB. As we need to put out a new TZDB release soon for Paraguay, it looks like any Aysén change would have to wait for the release after that. [1]: https://www.diarioregionalaysen.cl/noticia/actualidad/2024/12/presentan-deci...
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Paul Eggert