Here is a proposed patch to tzdata95c's southamerica file. Bolivia was omitted inadvertently from tzdata95c; this patch brings it back. I wrote hernan@isoft.com.ar and suggested that the zone name be changed back from `Argentina/Buenos_Aires' to `America/Buenos_Aires' to stick with the current naming conventions, and that the time zone abbreviation be changed from ARS/ARD to ARST/ARDT (by analogy with New Zealand). He wrote back that this seemed OK. He hadn't known about the zone naming conventions. I also came up with a more compact representation of his fix, updated some of the comments to match the recent changes, and fixed the spacing. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 1995.3 retrieving revision 1995.3.1.1 diff -c -r1995.3 -r1995.3.1.1 *** southamerica 1995/07/02 23:19:24 1995.3 --- southamerica 1995/07/03 16:27:38 1995.3.1.1 *************** *** 14,30 **** # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. # Some of these are just plausible excuses for common English abbreviations. # Corrections are welcome! ! # std dst ! # LMT Local Mean Time ! # -2:00 FST FDT Fernando de Noronha ! # -3:00 EST EDT Eastern South America (conflicts with -5:00) ! # -4:00 AST ADT Andes*, Antilles*, Asuncion*, Atlantic ! # -4:00 CST CDT Chile (conflicts with -6:00) ! # -4:00 WST WDT Western Brazil ! # -5:00 AST ADT Acre (conflicts with -4:00) ! # -5:00 EST EDT Eastern, Ecuador* ! # -6:00 CST CDT Archipelago of Columbus*, Central ! # -7:00 MST MDT Mataveri*, Mountain # # See the `africa' file for Zone naming conventions. --- 14,31 ---- # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. # Some of these are just plausible excuses for common English abbreviations. # Corrections are welcome! ! # std dst ! # LMT Local Mean Time ! # -2:00 FST FDT Fernando de Noronha ! # -3:00 EST EDT Eastern South America (conflicts with -5:00) ! # -3:00 ARST ARDT Argentina ! # -4:00 AST ADT Andes*, Antilles*, Asuncion*, Atlantic ! # -4:00 CST CDT Chile (conflicts with -6:00) ! # -4:00 WST WDT Western Brazil ! # -5:00 AST ADT Acre (conflicts with -4:00) ! # -5:00 EST EDT Eastern, Ecuador* ! # -6:00 CST CDT Archipelago of Columbus*, Central ! # -7:00 MST MDT Mataveri*, Mountain # # See the `africa' file for Zone naming conventions. *************** *** 51,66 **** # From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (June 26, 1995): # I am sending modifications to the Argentinian time zone table... ! # please check comments below to find out the source used. ! # ! # We did three modifications: ! # ! # * The table was completed for the missing years 1989-1993. ! # * The name of the time zone was changed from ! # America/Buenos_Aires to Argentina/Buenos_Aires ! # * The (short) names where changed from E%sT to AR%s (AR was ! # chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent ! # Argentina). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Arg 1930 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D --- 52,58 ---- # From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (June 26, 1995): # I am sending modifications to the Argentinian time zone table... ! # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Arg 1930 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D *************** *** 97,125 **** # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina ! # (Argentinian Naval Hidrography Institute) # ! Rule Arg 1989 only - Mar 5 0:00 0 S ! Rule Arg 1989 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Arg 1990 only - Mar 4 0:00 0 S ! Rule Arg 1990 only - Oct 21 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Arg 1991 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 S ! Rule Arg 1991 only - Oct 20 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Arg 1992 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S ! Rule Arg 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Arg 1993 only - Mar 7 0:00 0 S # # From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (June 26, 1995): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. # ! # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Nov ! -4:17 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time ! -4:00 - AST 1930 Dec ! -4:00 Arg A%sT 1969 Oct 5 ! -3:00 Arg AR%s # Brazil --- 89,118 ---- # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina ! # (Argentinian Naval Hydrography Institute) # ! # Shanks gives 1989 Mar 16 and stops after 1990 Mar 4; go with Otero. ! Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 S ! Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D # # From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (June 26, 1995): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. # ! # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Nov ! -4:17 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time ! -4:00 - AST 1930 Dec ! -4:00 Arg A%sT 1969 Oct 5 ! -3:00 Arg AR%sT ! ! # Bolivia ! # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] ! Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 ! -4:33 - LPMT 1931 Oct 15 # La Paz Mean Time ! -4:33 1:00 LPDT 1932 Mar 21 ! -4:00 - AST # Brazil