* southamerica (SanLuis): Move October 2009 transition from here ... (America/Argentina/San_Luis): ... to here. This causes San Luis to not appear to be on perpetual DST. --- southamerica | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index f2e8f12..aab2e1a 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -451,6 +451,17 @@ Rule Arg 2008 only - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got # stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over. +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-05): +# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4 +# with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to +# just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example, +# <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina>. +# We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to +# standard time, so let's do that here too. This does not change UTC +# offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations. One minor +# plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ +# setting for time stamps past 2038. + # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): # Milne says Cordoba time was -4:16:48.2. Round to the nearest second. @@ -588,7 +599,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 # San Luis (SL) Rule SanLuis 2008 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - -Rule SanLuis 2007 2009 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SanLuis 2007 2008 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May @@ -604,7 +615,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Jan 21 - -4:00 SanLuis WAR%sT + -4:00 SanLuis WAR%sT 2009 Oct 11 + -3:00 - ART # # Santa Cruz (SC) Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -- 1.8.1.2