Chile's time zone data wrong
Hi, I don't know if you're the right person, but your name is in Sun's /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/southamerica file under Solaris 2.4 I wanted you to know that the rule for Chile is incorrect. This year, we switched to DST at midnight on Saturday, October 14th, but the rules in that file made our Suns switch to DST a week earlier. The reason for the discrepancy is that the rules in the file specify to switch to DST at 0:00 the second sunday of October. This year, October 1st was a sunday, so the second Sunday was October 8th. That's when our Suns switched to DST. However, the law says to switch to DST at midnight on the second SATURDAY of October, which is not the same as 0:00 on the second sunday of October. In fact, this year the bug showed up because October 1st was a Sunday... May I suggest to change the specification to Sun>=9 ? Eduardo Krell R&D Manager Tandem Chile S.A. Santiago ekrell@tandem.cl
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 14:17 ADT From: ekrell@tandem.cl (Eduardo Krell) However, the law says to switch to DST at midnight on the second SATURDAY of October, which is not the same as 0:00 on the second sunday of October. Thanks for the tip, Eduardo. Two questions: * Is the law the same for March as it is for October? I.e. should the `Sun>=8' be changed to `Sun>=9' twice, once for March and once for October? * As far as you know, has the law changed recently, or has it been the same since 1969?
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