From 35af84e44387e5d9f311728651856de44b1f45f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arthur David Olson Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:11:28 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] San Luis changes SCCS-file: southamerica SCCS-SID: 8.39 --- southamerica | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index f3ab65c..3a67774 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -403,13 +403,39 @@ Rule Arg 2008 only - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday # in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October. -# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-16): -# The unofficial claim at -# -# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/san-luis-new-time-zone.html +# From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16): +# ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself. +# +# The Law at +# -# is that "The province will most likely follow the next daylight saving schedule, -# which is planned for the second Sunday in October." +# is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in +# October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the +# complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and +# ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00. +# +# This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday. +# +# IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd +# Sunday of October and March. +# +# The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did +# change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees +# that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March. +# +# In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday +# (October 11th) at 0:00. +# +# So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last +# America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these... +# +# I'm enclosing a patch that does what I say... regretfully, the San Luis +# timezone must be called "WART/WARST" even when most of the time (like, +# right now) WARST == ART... that is, since last Sunday, all the country +# is using UTC-3, but in my patch, San Luis calls it "WARST" and the rest +# of the country calls it "ART". +# ... # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -543,6 +569,10 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -3:00 - ART # # San Luis (SL) + +Rule SanLuis 2008 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - +Rule SanLuis 2008 max - 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 -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec @@ -557,8 +587,7 @@ 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 - -3:00 - ART 2009 Mar 15 - -4:00 Arg WAR%sT + -4:00 SanLuis WAR%sT # # Santa Cruz (SC) Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31