Cuba on DST until 2005
Not to interrupt your discussion about Georgia, but... Evert van der Veer <evert.van.der.veer@wanadoo.nl> informed me that Cuba was not going back to standard time this year. I was able to find a news arcticle about it, quoted:
To conserve energy, Cuban authorities are closing 110 businesses, shortening the workday and school day by a half hour, extending daylight-saving time until October 2005 and shifting production schedules.
The original (subscription) is in the Dallas Morning News from 2004-10-14: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/cuba/stories/101504dn... A number of other newspapers carry the same article without subscription, including http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/9920684.htm regards, Steffen
Steffen Thorsen <straen@thorsen.priv.no> writes:
Evert van der Veer ... informed me that Cuba was not going back to standard time this year.
Thanks for the heads-up; this will cause the tz database to go wrong in Cuba this weekend. I found a Cuban news source for the story too. Here's a proposed patch to the tz database to handle this issue, along with a couple of other minor pending issues that do not affect any time stamps: * Add a cross reference comment from Europe to Asia for Georgia. * The legal date of the change in Mato Grosso this year was Oct 1, not Oct 4. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2004.1 retrieving revision 2004.1.0.1 diff -pu -r2004.1 -r2004.1.0.1 --- northamerica 2004/05/27 16:00:30 2004.1 +++ northamerica 2004/10/29 06:12:26 2004.1.0.1 @@ -1731,6 +1731,15 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1 # to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have # returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) +# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): +# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-28): +# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html +# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras +# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return +# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". +# For now, let's assume that it's a one-year temporary measure. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S @@ -1759,8 +1768,9 @@ Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D -Rule Cuba 1998 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 2000 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2005 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2004.5 retrieving revision 2004.5.0.1 diff -pu -r2004.5 -r2004.5.0.1 --- southamerica 2004/10/11 18:44:52 2004.5 +++ southamerica 2004/10/29 06:12:26 2004.5.0.1 @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 - LMT # Mato Grosso (MT) Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 2003 Sep 24 - -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 4 + -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # # west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO) =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2004.2 retrieving revision 2004.2.0.1 diff -pu -r2004.2 -r2004.2.0.1 --- europe 2004/07/19 18:32:49 2004.2 +++ europe 2004/10/29 06:12:26 2004.2.0.1 @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 # see Serbia and Montenegro # Cyprus -# See the `asia' file. +# Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. # Czech Republic # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1055,6 +1055,11 @@ Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Ap 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
Paul Eggert wrote:
* The legal date of the change in Mato Grosso this year was Oct 1, not Oct 4.
You are right. I sent the patch with the wrong info. I used the decree's publication date instead of the decree's date. My mistake. Rodrigo
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