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1454249adSAndy Fiddaman# tzdb data for South America and environs
2454249adSAndy Fiddaman
35d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
45d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
55d0e1406SMarcel Telka
65d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
75d0e1406SMarcel Telka# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
85d0e1406SMarcel Telka# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
95d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
118d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-05):
125d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
175d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
188d30ff13SDan McDonald# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
198d30ff13SDan McDonald# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
245d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
275ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
285d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
298d30ff13SDan McDonald# These tables use numeric abbreviations like -03 and -0330 for
30121e6e16SYuri Pankov# integer hour and minute UT offsets.  Although earlier editions used
318d30ff13SDan McDonald# alphabetic time zone abbreviations, these abbreviations were
328d30ff13SDan McDonald# invented and did not reflect common practice.
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385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentina
395d0e1406SMarcel Telka
405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976.
425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974.  Switches at midnight.
435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-19):
455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ARGENTINA           3 H BEHIND   UTC
465d0e1406SMarcel Telka
475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.
505d0e1406SMarcel Telka
51c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
52a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1930	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	-
535d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1931	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
54a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1931	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
555d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1932	1940	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
56a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1932	1939	-	Nov	 1	0:00	1:00	-
57a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1940	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	-
585d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1941	only	-	Jun	15	0:00	0	-
59a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1941	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1943	only	-	Aug	 1	0:00	0	-
61a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1943	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1946	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
63a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1946	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
645d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1963	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
65a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1963	only	-	Dec	15	0:00	1:00	-
665d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1964	1966	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
67a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1964	1966	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
685d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1967	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	0	-
69a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1967	1968	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
705d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1968	1969	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
71a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1974	only	-	Jan	23	0:00	1:00	-
725d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1974	only	-	May	 1	0:00	0	-
73a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1988	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	-
745d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# obtaining the data from the:
785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Talleres de Hidrografía Naval Argentina
795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute)
805d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	1989	1993	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
81a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1989	1992	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
825d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.
875d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time,
905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# from the International Date Line.
92a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	1999	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28):
945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted
955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that
965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it ended on March 3.
975d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	3	0:00	0	-
985d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01):
1005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We just checked with our São Paulo office and they say the government of
1015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST.
1025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
1035d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Fabián L. Arce Jofré (2000-04-04):
1055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
1065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# de la Rúa on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
1075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in the winter time, rather than less.  The change took effect on March 3.
1085d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06):
1105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999
1115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
1125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in effect.... The article is at
1135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
1145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... The Law itself is "Ley No. 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
1155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21.  The official publication is at:
1165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
1175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
1185d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (2001-06-12):
1205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday.
1215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th....
1225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm
1235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (2001-06-25):
1255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the
1265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Senate annulled the 1999 law that introduced the changes later postponed.
1275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm
1285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It remains the vote of the Deputies..., but it will be the same....
1295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina.
1305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country.
1315d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21):
1335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST....
1345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected.  News reports like
1355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate
1365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to
1375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# March, although exact rules are not given.
1385d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2007-12-26)
1405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in
1415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the lower chamber too (Diputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against.
1425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to
1435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are
1445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval:
1455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996
1465d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22):
1485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and
1495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
1505d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-09-05):
1525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As per message from Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz (Nicaragua),
1535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008.
1545d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
1565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
1575d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
1595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# via Rodrigo Severo:
1605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
1615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
1625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The new one is law No. 26.350
1635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
1645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
1655d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
1675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
1685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
1695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
1705d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1715d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1705/2008 excepting 12 Provinces from applying DST in the summer
1735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2008/2009: Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, La
1745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pampa, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
1755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
1765d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
1785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
1795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# included in Decree 1705/2008).
1805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
1815d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From fullinet (2009-10-18):
1835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As announced in
1845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
1855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
1865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (English: "No hour change").
1875d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvió no modificar la hora
1895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# oficial, decisión que estaba en estudio para su implementación el
1905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# domingo 18 de octubre. Desde el Ministerio de Planificación se anunció
1915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# que la Argentina hoy, en estas condiciones meteorológicas, no necesita
1925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# la modificación del huso horario, ya que 2009 nos encuentra con
1935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# crecimiento en la producción y distribución energética."
1945d0e1406SMarcel Telka
195a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	2007	only	-	Dec	30	0:00	1:00	-
1965d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Arg	2008	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
197a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Arg	2008	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
1985d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21):
2005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing
2015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night....
2025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf
2035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24):
2045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It's Law No. 7,210.  This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
2055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# now we'll assume it's for this year only.
2065d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
207a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-31):
2085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Hora de verano para la República Argentina
2095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
2105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
211*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman# to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25.  Go with this more precise value
212a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# over Shanks & Pottenger.  It is upward compatible with Milne, who
213a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# says Córdoba time was -4:16:48.2.
214a6c652dbSYuri Pankov
2155d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
2175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
2185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
2195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
2205d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
2225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
2235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
2245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time in October 17th.
2255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
2275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán.
2285d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14):
2305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... this weekend, the Province of Tucumán decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00
2315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's
2325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained....
2335d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14):
2355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ...
2365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#     "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from
2375d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   the start.  The government had decreed that the measure would take
2385d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin
2395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday....
2405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place
2415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other
2425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# provinces).  Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier.  So the article
2435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# contains a contradiction.  I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
2445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
2455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
2465d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
2485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
2495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
2505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
2515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
2525d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
2545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
2555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st.  It changed back to UTC-03:00
2565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
2575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
2585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html
2595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html
2605d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17):
2625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST
2635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008:
2645d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del país
2665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the
2675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# country)
2685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel
2695d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes
2715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay)
2725ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/253414/Economia/Es-inminente-que-en-San-Luis-atrasen-una-hora-los-relojes.html
2735ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html
2745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-18):
2765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The page of the San Luis provincial government
2775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812
2785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz
2795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard
2805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also
2815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
2825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# refused to follow San Luis in this change.
2835d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
2855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
2865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
2875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
2885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed).
2895d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-25):
2915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis
2925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most
2935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# important pages of 2008."
2945d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# You can use
2965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834
2975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis
2985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages
2995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# from which the first one is identical to the above.
3005d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28):
3025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that
3035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
3045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back
3055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round
3065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now).
3075d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San
3095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be
3105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's
3115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-(
3125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis
3135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
3145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# mailed them personally and never got an answer).
3155d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
3175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
3185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1992, from the IATA otherwise.  As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
3195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
3205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
3215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
3225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# other 5 subregions.
3235d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2009-03-13):
3255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Yesterday (with our usual 2-day notice) the Province of San Luis
3265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# decided that next Sunday instead of "staying" @utc-03:00 they will go
3275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to utc-04:00 until the second Saturday in October...
3285d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The press release is at
3305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/SL/Paginas/NoticiaDetalle.asp?TemaId=1&InfoPrensaId=3102
3315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (I couldn't find the decree, but www.sanluis.gov.ar
3325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is the official page for the Province Government.)
3335d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
3355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
3365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
3385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
3395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
3405d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
3425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
3435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
3445d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16):
3465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself.
3475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Law at
3495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.diputadossanluis.gov.ar/diputadosasp/paginas/verNorma.asp?NormaID=276
3505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in
3515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the
3525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and
3535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00.
3545d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday.
3565d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd
3585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sunday of October and March.
3595d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did
3615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees
3625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March.
3635d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday
3655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (October 11th) at 0:00.
3665d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last
3685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these...
3695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
3705d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
3725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to news reports from El Diario de la República Province San
3735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
3745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
3755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
3765d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Confirmaron la prórroga del huso horario de verano (Spanish)
3785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29383&Itemid=9
3795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# or (some English translation):
3805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina08.html
3815d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mariano Absatz (2010-04-12):
3835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
3845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
3855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
3865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
3875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
388a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-23):
3895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at -04
390a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# with perpetual daylight saving time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
3915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# just say it's at -03; see, for example,
3925ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
3935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
3945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
3955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
3965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
3975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# setting for timestamps past 2038.
3985d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3998a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4005d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
4025d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
403639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4045d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
4058d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4068d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4078d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4088d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4098d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
4105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Córdoba (CB), Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN),
4125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Chaco (CC), Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE)
4135d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified:
4155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
4165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
4175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
4185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
4195d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
4205d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
421639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	       -4:16:48.25
4225d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
4235d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4248d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4258d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4268d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
4278d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
4288d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4298d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4308d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
4315d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Salta (SA), La Pampa (LP), Neuquén (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
4335d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Salta -4:21:40 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
434639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4355d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4368d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4378d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4388d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
4398d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
4408d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4418d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4428d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
4438d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
4445d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tucumán (TM)
4465d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
447639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4485d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4498d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4508d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4518d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
4528d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
4538d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4548d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4558d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
4568d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 13
4578d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
4585d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# La Rioja (LR)
4605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
461639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4625d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4638d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4648d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4658d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  1
4668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 May  7
4678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4698d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
4708d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
4718d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
4728d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
4735d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# San Juan (SJ)
4755d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
476639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4775d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4788d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4798d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4808d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  1
4818d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 May  7
4828d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
4838d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
4848d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 31
4858d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jul 25
4868d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
4878d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
4885d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
4895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Jujuy (JY)
4905d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 -	LMT	1894 Oct 31
491639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
4925d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
4938d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
4948d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
4958d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990 Mar  4
4968d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 28
4978d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar 17
4988d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct  6
4998d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	1:00	-02	1992
5008d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
5018d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
5028d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
5038d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5045d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
5055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
5065d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
507639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
5085d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
5098d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
5108d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
5118d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
5128d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
5138d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
5148d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
5158d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
5168d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
5178d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
5188d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5195d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
5205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Mendoza (MZ)
5215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
522639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
5235d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
5248d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
5258d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
5268d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990 Mar  4
5278d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 15
5288d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar  1
5298d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 15
5308d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	1:00	-03	1992 Mar  1
5318d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1992 Oct 18
5328d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
5338d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
5348d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 23
5358d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Sep 26
5368d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
5378d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5385d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
5395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# San Luis (SL)
5405d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5415d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	SanLuis	2008	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
542a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	SanLuis	2007	2008	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	-
5435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
545639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
5465d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
5478d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
5488d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
5498d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990
5508d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	1:00	-02	1990 Mar 14
5518d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 15
5528d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar  1
5538d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Jun  1
5548d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Oct  3
5558d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	1:00	-03	2000 Mar  3
5568d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 31
5578d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jul 25
5588d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Jan 21
5598d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	SanLuis	-04/-03	2009 Oct 11
5608d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5615d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
5625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Santa Cruz (SC)
5635d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
564639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
5658d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
5668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
5678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
5688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
5698d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
5708d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
5718d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
5728d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
5738d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5745d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
5755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (TF)
5765d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
577639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
5788d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
5798d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
5808d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
5818d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
5828d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
5838d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 30
5848d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
5858d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
5868d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
5875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Bolivia
5898a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5905d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
5915d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:32:36 -	CMT	1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT
592121e6e16SYuri Pankov			-4:32:36 1:00	BST	1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST
5938d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
5945d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Brazil
5965d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
5985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
5995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
6005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The rule change lasted only part of the day;
6015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business
6025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon.
6035d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From IATA SSIM (1996-02):
6055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS),
6065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Santa Catarina (SC), Paraná (PR), São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ),
6075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Espírito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Goiás (GO),
6085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL].
6095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.]
6105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07):
6125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Goiás until 1989), and other
6135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were
6145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST....
6155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91.  Each issue from then until
6165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95,
6175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2
6185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (UTC-4)....  The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is
6195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is
6205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's
6215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# become part of the state of Pernambuco).  The boundary between BR1 and BR2
6225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# has never been clearly stated.  They've simply been called East and West.
6235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline
6245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil.  For each
6255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM.  From that
6265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amapá (AP), Ceará (CE),
6275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Maranhão (MA), Paraíba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piauí (PI), and Rio Grande do
6285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Pará (PA) are all in BR1 without DST.
6295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27):
6315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Brazilian official page <http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html>
6325d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Jesper Nørgaard (2000-11-03):
6345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [For an official list of which regions in Brazil use which time zones, see:]
6355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
6365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
6375d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
6395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
6405d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
6425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the results are known almost immediately.  Yesterday, it was the first
6435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
6445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies.  Nobody is
6455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
6465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# round for the Presidency and also for some Governors.  The 2nd round will
6475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# take place on October 27th.
6485d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
6505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
6515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
6525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
6535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
6545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
6565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
657639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# modern Brazilian ... voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
6585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
6595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20):
6615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00:
6625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975
6635d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
6655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
6665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
6675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
6685d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
6705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
6715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# timezone UTC+4
6725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
6735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# part of it, as was before.
6745d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that
6765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying
6775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone
6785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections
6795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This
6805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,
6815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1913.
6825d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24):
6845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Just correcting the URL:
6855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=25/04/2008
6865d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco
6885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall
6895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# be created to represent the...west side of the Pará State. I
6905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most
6915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# important/populated city in the affected area.
6925d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to
6945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4.
6955d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24):
6975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map.
6985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php
6995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones - eliminating time zone UTC-05
7015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT-04) - western
7025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC-03 (from UTC-04).
7035d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
7055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
7065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
7075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
7085d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
7105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
7115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and
7125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on
7135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that
7145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year.
7155d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
7175d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# An official page about it:
7195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722
7205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed
7215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# by going to
7225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mme.gov.br/first
7235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# One example link that works directly:
7255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54
7265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Portuguese)
7275d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We have a written a short article about it as well:
7295ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html
7305d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-04):
7325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# State Bahia will return to Daylight savings time this year after 8 years off.
7335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The announcement was made by Governor Jaques Wagner in an interview to a
7345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# television station in Salvador.
7355d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In Portuguese:
7375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/10/governador-jaques-wagner-confirma-horario-de-verao-na-bahia.html
7385ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
7395d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
7415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
7425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at http://pcdsh01.on.br/ the
7435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
7445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# still in force.
7455d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
7475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
7485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time.
7495d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	 [ and in a second message (same day): ]
7505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I found the decree.
7515d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
7535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Link :
7545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
7555d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Kelley Cook (2012-10-16):
7575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The governor of state of Bahia in Brazil announced on Thursday that
7585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# due to public pressure, he is reversing the DST policy they implemented
7595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# last year and will not be going to Summer Time on October 21st....
7605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.correio24horas.com.br/r/artigo/apos-pressoes-wagner-suspende-horario-de-verao-na-bahia
7615d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rodrigo Severo (2012-10-16):
7635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tocantins state will have DST.
7645ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
7655d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
7675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
7685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
7695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
7705ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
7715d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-10-17):
7735ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html
7745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Senator Jorge Viana announced that Acre will change time zone on November 10.
7755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# He did not specify the time of the change, nor if western parts of Amazonas
7765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# will change as well.
7775d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-17):
7795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, assume western Amazonas will change as well.
7805d0e1406SMarcel Telka
781c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
7825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 20,466 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm> (1931-10-01)
7835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 21,896 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm> (1932-01-10)
784a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1931	only	-	Oct	 3	11:00	1:00	-
7855d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1932	1933	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
786a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1932	only	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
7875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 23,195 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm> (1933-10-10)
7885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# revoked DST.
7895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 27,496 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm> (1949-11-24)
7905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 27,998 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm> (1950-04-13)
791a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1949	1952	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
7925d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1950	only	-	Apr	16	 1:00	0	-
7935d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1951	1952	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
7945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 32,308 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm> (1953-02-24)
7955d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1953	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
7965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 34,724 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm> (1953-11-30)
7975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# revoked DST.
7985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 52,700 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm> (1963-10-18)
7995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00
8005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought.
8015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 53,071 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm> (1963-12-03)
8025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09.
803a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1963	only	-	Dec	 9	 0:00	1:00	-
8045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 53,604 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm> (1964-02-25)
8055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school).
8065d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1964	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
8075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 55,639 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm> (1965-01-27)
808a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Jan	31	 0:00	1:00	-
8095d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Mar	31	 0:00	0	-
8105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 57,303 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm> (1965-11-22)
811a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
8125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 57,843 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm> (1966-02-18)
8135d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1966	1968	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
814a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1966	1967	-	Nov	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
8155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 63,429 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm> (1968-10-15)
8165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# revoked DST.
8175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 91,698 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm> (1985-09-27)
818a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1985	only	-	Nov	 2	 0:00	1:00	-
8195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21)
8205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13)
8215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1986	only	-	Mar	15	 0:00	0	-
8225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01)
823a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1986	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
8245d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1987	only	-	Feb	14	 0:00	0	-
8255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 94,922 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm> (1987-09-22)
826a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1987	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
8275d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1988	only	-	Feb	 7	 0:00	0	-
8285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 96,676 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm> (1988-09-12)
8295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory)
830a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1988	only	-	Oct	16	 0:00	1:00	-
8315d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1989	only	-	Jan	29	 0:00	0	-
8325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 98,077 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm> (1989-08-21)
8335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# with the same exceptions
834a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1989	only	-	Oct	15	 0:00	1:00	-
8355d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1990	only	-	Feb	11	 0:00	0	-
8365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 99,530 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm> (1990-09-17)
8375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF.
8385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT.
839a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1990	only	-	Oct	21	 0:00	1:00	-
8405d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1991	only	-	Feb	17	 0:00	0	-
8415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm> (1991-09-25)
8425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF.
843a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1991	only	-	Oct	20	 0:00	1:00	-
8445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1992	only	-	Feb	 9	 0:00	0	-
8455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm> (1992-10-16)
8465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by same states.
847a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1992	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
8485d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1993	only	-	Jan	31	 0:00	0	-
8495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 942 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm> (1993-09-28)
8505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by same states, plus AM.
8515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1,252 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm> (1994-09-22;
8525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM.
8535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1,636 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm> (1995-09-14)
8545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by same states, plus MT and TO.
8555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1,674 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm> (1995-10-13)
8565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adds AL, SE.
857a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1993	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=11	 0:00	1:00	-
8585d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1994	1995	-	Feb	Sun>=15	 0:00	0	-
8595d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Feb	11	 0:00	0	-
8605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 2,000 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm> (1996-09-04)
8615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
862a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	-
8635d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1997	only	-	Feb	16	 0:00	0	-
8645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
8655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
8665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
8675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
8685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1
8695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
8705d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states.
872a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1997	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	-
8735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 2,495 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG>
8745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1998-02-10)
8755d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1998	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
8765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 2,780 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg> (1998-09-11)
8775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by the same states as before.
878a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1998	only	-	Oct	11	 0:00	1:00	-
8795d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	1999	only	-	Feb	21	 0:00	0	-
8805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,150 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif>
8815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1999-08-23) adopted by same states.
8825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,188 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif> (1999-09-30)
8835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adds SE, AL, PB, PE, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR.
884a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	1999	only	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
8855d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2000	only	-	Feb	27	 0:00	0	-
8865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,592 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DEC3592.htm> (2000-09-06)
8875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by the same states as before.
8885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,630 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3630.jpg> (2000-10-13)
8895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00.
8905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,632 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3632.jpg> (2000-10-17)
8915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
8925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 3,916 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif>
8935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
894a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2000	2001	-	Oct	Sun>=8	 0:00	1:00	-
8955d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2001	2006	-	Feb	Sun>=15	 0:00	0	-
8965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
8975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 4,399 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm>
898a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2002	only	-	Nov	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
8995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO.
9005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 4,844 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm>
901a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2003	only	-	Oct	19	 0:00	1:00	-
9025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.
9035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 5,223 <http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
904a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2004	only	-	Nov	 2	 0:00	1:00	-
9055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 5,539 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif> (2005-09-19),
9065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by the same states as before.
907a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2005	only	-	Oct	16	 0:00	1:00	-
9085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 5,920 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5920.gif> (2006-10-03),
9095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by the same states as before.
910a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2006	only	-	Nov	 5	 0:00	1:00	-
9115d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2007	only	-	Feb	25	 0:00	0	-
9125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 6,212 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif> (2007-09-26),
9135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by the same states as before.
914a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2007	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	 0:00	1:00	-
9155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10):
9165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to this decree
9175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm
9185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [t]he DST period in Brazil now on will be from the 3rd Oct Sunday to the
9195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 3rd Feb Sunday. There is an exception on the return date when this is
9205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Carnival Sunday then the return date will be the next Sunday...
921a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Brazil	2008	2017	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
9225d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2008	2011	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
923121e6e16SYuri Pankov# Decree 7,584 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7584_20111013.jpg> (2011-10-13)
924121e6e16SYuri Pankov# added Bahia.
9255d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2012	only	-	Feb	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
926121e6e16SYuri Pankov# Decree 7,826 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7826_20121015.jpg> (2012-10-15)
927121e6e16SYuri Pankov# removed Bahia and added Tocantins.
928121e6e16SYuri Pankov# Decree 8,112 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto8112_20130930.JPG> (2013-09-30)
929121e6e16SYuri Pankov# removed Tocantins.
9305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2013	2014	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
9315d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Brazil	2015	only	-	Feb	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
9328a907646SAndy FiddamanRule	Brazil	2016	2019	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
933121e6e16SYuri Pankov# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-18):
934121e6e16SYuri Pankov# According to many media sources, next year's DST start in Brazil will move to
9358a907646SAndy Fiddaman# the first Sunday of November
936121e6e16SYuri Pankov# ... https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-delays-dst-2018.html
937121e6e16SYuri Pankov# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-20):
938121e6e16SYuri Pankov# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/D9242.htm
939454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Fábio Gomes (2018-10-04):
940454249adSAndy Fiddaman# The Brazilian president just announced a new change on this year DST.
941454249adSAndy Fiddaman# It was scheduled to start on November 4th and it was changed to November 18th.
942454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Rodrigo Brüning Wessler (2018-10-15):
943454249adSAndy Fiddaman# The Brazilian government just announced that the change in DST was
944454249adSAndy Fiddaman# canceled....  Maybe the president Michel Temer also woke up one hour
945454249adSAndy Fiddaman# earlier today. :)
9468a907646SAndy FiddamanRule	Brazil	2018	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
9478a907646SAndy Fiddaman# The last ruleset listed above says that the following states observed DST:
9485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
9498a907646SAndy Fiddaman#
9508a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Steffen Thorsen (2019-04-05):
9518a907646SAndy Fiddaman# According to multiple sources the Brazilian president wants to get rid of DST.
9528a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://gmconline.com.br/noticias/politica/bolsonaro-horario-de-verao-deve-acabar-este-ano
9538a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/04/05/governo-anuncia-fim-do-horario-de-verao.ghtml
9548a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Marcus Diniz (2019-04-25):
9558a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Brazil no longer has DST changes - decree signed today
9568a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/04/25/bolsonaro-assina-decreto-que-acaba-com-o-horario-de-verao.ghtml
9578a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Daniel Soares de Oliveira (2019-04-26):
9588a907646SAndy Fiddaman# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2019-2022/2019/Decreto/D9772.htm
9595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9608a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
9615d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE)
9635d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Noronha	-2:09:40 -	LMT	1914
9648d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	1990 Sep 17
9658d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	-	-02	1999 Sep 30
9668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	2000 Oct 15
9678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	-	-02	2001 Sep 13
9688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	2002 Oct  1
9698d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	-	-02
9705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement.
9715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# These include Trindade and Martim Vaz (administratively part of ES),
9725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rocas Atoll (RN), and the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (PE).
9735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01;
9745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it also included the Penedos.
9755d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Amapá (AP), east Pará (PA)
9775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# East Pará includes Belém, Marabá, Serra Norte, and São Félix do Xingu.
9785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The division between east and west Pará is the river Xingu.
9795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess,
9805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the border with Amapá) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu.
9815d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Belem	-3:13:56 -	LMT	1914
9828d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1988 Sep 12
9838d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
9845d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# west Pará (PA)
9865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# West Pará includes Altamira, Óbidos, Prainha, Oriximiná, and Santarém.
9875d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Santarem	-3:38:48 -	LMT	1914
9888d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
9898d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2008 Jun 24  0:00
9908d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
9915d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
9935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Paraíba (PB)
9945d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Fortaleza	-2:34:00 -	LMT	1914
9958d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
9968d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
9978d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 22
9988d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
9998d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
10008d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
10015d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
10035d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Recife	-2:19:36 -	LMT	1914
10048d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
10058d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
10068d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 15
10078d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
10088d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
10098d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
10105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tocantins (TO)
10125d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Araguaina	-3:12:48 -	LMT	1914
10138d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
10148d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1995 Sep 14
10158d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2003 Sep 24
10168d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2012 Oct 21
10178d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2013 Sep
10188d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
10195d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
10215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Maceio	-2:22:52 -	LMT	1914
10228d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
10238d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1995 Oct 13
10248d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1996 Sep  4
10258d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
10268d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 22
10278d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
10288d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
10298d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
10305d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Bahia (BA)
10325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead
10335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of America/Salvador.
10345d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Bahia	-2:34:04 -	LMT	1914
10358d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2003 Sep 24
10368d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	2011 Oct 16
10378d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2012 Oct 21
10388d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
10395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Goiás (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
10415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Paraná (PR),
10425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
10435d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Sao_Paulo	-3:06:28 -	LMT	1914
10448d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1963 Oct 23  0:00
10458d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	1:00	-02	1964
10468d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02
10475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
10495d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 -	LMT	1914
10508d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03
10515d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Mato Grosso (MT)
10535d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Cuiaba	-3:44:20 -	LMT	1914
10548d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	2003 Sep 24
10558d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Oct  1
10568d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03
10575d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rondônia (RO)
10595d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 -	LMT	1914
10608d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
10618d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
10625d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Roraima (RR)
10645d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Boa_Vista	-4:02:40 -	LMT	1914
10658d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
10668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1999 Sep 30
10678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	2000 Oct 15
10688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
10695d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Jutaí, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto
10715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides
10725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# east from west Amazonas.
10735d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Manaus	-4:00:04 -	LMT	1914
10748d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
10758d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1993 Sep 28
10768d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1994 Sep 22
10778d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
10785d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# west Amazonas (AM): Atalaia do Norte, Boca do Maoco, Benjamin Constant,
10805d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	Eirunepé, Envira, Ipixuna
10815d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Eirunepe	-4:39:28 -	LMT	1914
10828d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1988 Sep 12
10838d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1993 Sep 28
10848d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1994 Sep 22
10858d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	2008 Jun 24  0:00
10868d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2013 Nov 10
10878d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05
10885d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Acre (AC)
10905d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
10918d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1988 Sep 12
10928d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	2008 Jun 24  0:00
10938d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2013 Nov 10
10948d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05
10955d0e1406SMarcel Telka
10965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Chile
10975d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1098f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# From Paul Eggert (2022-03-15):
10995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger says America/Santiago introduced standard time in
1100121e6e16SYuri Pankov# 1890 and rounds its UT offset to 70W40; guess that in practice this
11015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was the same offset as in 1916-1919.  It also says Pacific/Easter
11025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# standardized on 109W22 in 1890; assume this didn't change the clocks.
11035d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Dates for America/Santiago from 1910 to 2004 are primarily from
11055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
11065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [1] Chile Law
11075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
11085ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# This contains a copy of this official table:
11095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
11105ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
11115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [1] needs several corrections, though.
11125d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The first set of corrections is from:
11145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [2] History of the Official Time of Chile
11155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html (retrieved 2012-03-06).  See:
11165ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://web.archive.org/web/20120306042032/http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html
11175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This is an English translation of:
11185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Historia de la hora oficial de Chile (retrieved 2012-10-24).  See:
11195ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://web.archive.org/web/20121024234627/http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm
11205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A fancier Spanish version (requiring mouse-clicking) is at:
1121f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# http://www.horaoficial.cl/historia_hora.php
11225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
11235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11245d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
11255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    Boletín No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910).  Go with [2].
11265d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11275d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
11285d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
11295d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    Astronomical Observatory (OAN), then located in what is now
1130f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman#    Quinta Normal in Santiago.  Go with [1], as this matches the meridian
1131f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman#    referred to by the relevant Chilean laws to this day.
11325d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11335d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
11345d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    Boletín No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23).  Go with [2].
11355d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
11375d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    at midnight mainland time, the current common practice.  However,
11385d0e1406SMarcel Telka#    go with [2]'s specification of 23:00 for the 1947-05-21 transition.
11395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Another correction to [1] is from Jesper Nørgaard Welen, who
11415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# wrote (2006-10-08), "I think that there are some obvious mistakes in
11425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the suggested link from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66
11435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# says that GMT-4 ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at
11445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1990-09-15 (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16
11455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# respectively), but anyhow it clears up some doubts too."
11465d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Data for Pacific/Easter from 1910 through 1967 come from Shanks &
11485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pottenger.  After that, for lack of better info assume
11495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pacific/Easter is always two hours behind America/Santiago;
11505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# this is known to work for DST transitions starting in 2008 and
11515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# may well be true for earlier transitions.
11525d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1153639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# From Tim Parenti (2022-07-06):
1154f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# For a brief period of roughly six weeks in 1946, DST was only observed on an
1155f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# emergency basis in specific regions of central Chile; namely, "the national
1156f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# territory between the provinces of Coquimbo and Concepción, inclusive".
1157f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# This was enacted by Decree 3,891, dated 1946-07-13, and took effect
1158f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# 1946-07-14 24:00, advancing these central regions to -03.
1159f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460715/#page/1
1160f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# The decree contemplated "[t]hat this advancement of the Official Time, even
1161f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# though it has been proposed for the cities of Santiago and Valparaíso only,
1162f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# must be agreed with that of other cities, due to the connection of various
1163f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# activities that require it, such as, for example, the operation of rail
1164f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# services".  It was originally set to expire after 30 days but was extended
1165f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# through 1946-08-31 by Decree 4,506, dated 1946-08-13.
1166f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460814/#page/1
1167f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman#
1168f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# Law Number 8,522, promulgated 1946-08-27, reunified Chilean clocks at their
1169f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# new "Summer Time" of -04, reckoned as that of "the meridian of the
1170f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# Astronomical Observatory of Lo Espejo, advanced by 42 minutes and 45
1171639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# seconds".  Although this law specified the new Summer Time to start on 1
1172639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# September each year, a special "transitional article" started it a few days
1173639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# early, as soon as the law took effect.  As the law was to take force "from
1174639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# the date of its publication in the 'Diario Oficial', which happened the
1175639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# following day, presume the change took place in Santiago and its environs
1176639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# from 24:00 -03 to 23:00 -04 on Wednesday 1946-08-28.  Although this was a
1177639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# no-op for wall clocks in the north and south of the country, put their formal
1178639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# start to DST an hour later when they reached 24:00 -04.
1179f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460828/#page/1
1180f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# After a brief "Winter Time" stint at -05 beginning 1947-04-01, Law Number
1181f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# 8,777, promulgated 1947-05-17, established year-round -04 "from 23:00 on the
1182f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# second day after it is published in the 'Diario Oficial'."  It was published
1183f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# on Monday 1947-05-19 and so took effect from Wednesday 1947-05-21 23:00.
1184f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19470519/#page/1
1185f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman
11865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
11875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
11885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of October....  The law is the same for March and October.
11895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1998-09-29):
11905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
11915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
11925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).
11935d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18):
11955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
11965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on April 3, (one-time change).
11975d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
11995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks.  This
12005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
12015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
12025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Supreme Decree is located at
12035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
12045d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
12065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
12075d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
12095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
12105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
12115d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
12135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
12145d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
12165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
12175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In English:
12185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
12195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
12205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# August, not in October as they have since 1968.
12215d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
12235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
12245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
12255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
12265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012....
12275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Quote from the website communication:
12285d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
12305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# a. Saturday April 28, 2012, clocks should go back 60 minutes; that is, at
12315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
12325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of the same day.
12335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
12345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
12355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 01:00 on September 2.
12365d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
12385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
12395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned.  They
12405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hope to save energy.  The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
12415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
12425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
12435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From José Miguel Garrido (2014-02-19):
12455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
12465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# dates to 2014.
12475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
12485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
12495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
12505d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
12525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
12535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# permanently until March 25 of 2017
12545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/1-large.jpg
12555d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
12575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, assume that the extension will persist indefinitely.
12585d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Juan Correa (2016-03-18):
12605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The decree regarding DST has been published in today's Official Gazette:
12615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do/20160318/
12625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1088502
12635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It does consider the second Saturday of May and August as the dates
12645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# for the transition; and it lists DST dates until 2019, but I think
12655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# this scheme will stick.
12665d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
12685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, assume the pattern holds for the indefinite future.
12695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The decree says transitions occur at 24:00; in practice this appears
12705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to mean 24:00 mainland time, not 24:00 local time, so that Easter
12715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Island is always two hours behind the mainland.
12725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12738d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Juan Correa (2016-12-04):
12748d30ff13SDan McDonald# Magallanes region ... will keep DST (UTC -3) all year round....
12758d30ff13SDan McDonald# http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2016/12/04/433428/Bachelet-firmo-el-decreto-para-establecer-un-horario-unico-para-la-Region-de-Magallanes.aspx
12768d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Deborah Goldsmith (2017-01-19):
12778d30ff13SDan McDonald# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2017/01/17/41660/01/1169626.pdf
12788d30ff13SDan McDonald
1279454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Juan Correa (2018-08-13):
1280454249adSAndy Fiddaman# As of moments ago, the Ministry of Energy in Chile has announced the new
1281454249adSAndy Fiddaman# schema for DST. ...  Announcement in video (in Spanish):
1282454249adSAndy Fiddaman# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029000399129374720
1283454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Yonathan Dossow (2018-08-13):
1284454249adSAndy Fiddaman# The video says "first Saturday of September", we all know it means Sunday at
1285454249adSAndy Fiddaman# midnight.
1286454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Tim Parenti (2018-08-13):
1287454249adSAndy Fiddaman# Translating the captions on the video at 0:44-0:55, "We want to announce as
1288454249adSAndy Fiddaman# Government that from 2019, Winter Time will be increased to 5 months, between
1289454249adSAndy Fiddaman# the first Saturday of April and the first Saturday of September."
1290454249adSAndy Fiddaman# At 2:08-2:20, "The Magallanes region will maintain its current time, as
1291454249adSAndy Fiddaman# decided by the citizens during 2017, but our Government will promote a
1292454249adSAndy Fiddaman# regional dialogue table to gather their opinion on this matter."
1293454249adSAndy Fiddaman# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029009354001973248
1294454249adSAndy Fiddaman# "We will keep the new time policy unchanged for at least the next 4 years."
1295454249adSAndy Fiddaman# So we extend the new rules on Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time indefinitely.
12968a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Juan Correa (2019-02-04):
12978a907646SAndy Fiddaman# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2018/11/23/42212/01/1498738.pdf
1298639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman
1299639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# From Juan Correa (2022-04-02):
1300639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# I found there was a decree published last Thursday that will keep
1301639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# Magallanes region to UTC -3 "indefinitely". The decree is available at
1302639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/03/31/43217-B/01/2108910.pdf
1303639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman
1304639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# From Juan Correa (2022-08-09):
1305639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# the Internal Affairs Ministry (Ministerio del Interior) informed DST
1306639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# for America/Santiago will start on midnight of September 11th;
1307639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# and will end on April 1st, 2023. Magallanes region (America/Punta_Arenas)
1308639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# will keep UTC -3 "indefinitely"...  This is because on September 4th
13094d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# we will have a voting whether to approve a new Constitution.
13104d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman#
13114d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2022-08-17):
13124d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/08/13/43327/01/2172567.pdf
13134d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman#
13144d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# From Paul Eggert (2022-08-17):
13154d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# Although the presidential decree stops at fall 2026, assume that
13164d5721ebSAndy Fiddaman# similar DST rules will continue thereafter.
1317454249adSAndy Fiddaman
1318c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1319a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1927	1931	-	Sep	 1	0:00	1:00	-
13205d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1928	1932	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1321a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1968	only	-	Nov	 3	4:00u	1:00	-
13225d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1969	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
1323a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1969	only	-	Nov	23	4:00u	1:00	-
13245d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1970	only	-	Mar	29	3:00u	0	-
13255d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1971	only	-	Mar	14	3:00u	0	-
1326a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1970	1972	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
13275d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1972	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1328a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1973	only	-	Sep	30	4:00u	1:00	-
1329a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1974	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
13305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1987	only	-	Apr	12	3:00u	0	-
13315d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1988	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1332a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1988	1989	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1333a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1990	only	-	Sep	16	4:00u	1:00	-
13345d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1991	1996	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1335a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1991	1997	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
13365d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1997	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
13375d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1998	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1338a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1998	only	-	Sep	27	4:00u	1:00	-
13395d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	1999	only	-	Apr	 4	3:00u	0	-
1340a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	1999	2010	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
13415d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2000	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
13425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
13435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which is used below in specifying the transition.
13445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2008	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
13455d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2009	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
13465d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2010	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:00u	0	-
13475d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2011	only	-	May	Sun>=2	3:00u	0	-
1348a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	2011	only	-	Aug	Sun>=16	4:00u	1:00	-
13495d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Chile	2012	2014	-	Apr	Sun>=23	3:00u	0	-
1350a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chile	2012	2014	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
1351454249adSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2016	2018	-	May	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1352454249adSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2016	2018	-	Aug	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1353454249adSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2019	max	-	Apr	Sun>=2	3:00u	0	-
1354639e6f6dSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2019	2021	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
1355639e6f6dSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2022	only	-	Sep	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1356639e6f6dSAndy FiddamanRule	Chile	2023	max	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
13575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
13585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08.  Ignore these.
13598a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1360f7331dddSAndy FiddamanZone America/Santiago	-4:42:45 -	LMT	1890
1361f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
13628d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1916 Jul  1
1363f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1918 Sep 10
13648d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1919 Jul  1
1365f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1927 Sep  1
13668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Chile	-05/-04	1932 Sep  1
13678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1942 Jun  1
13688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1942 Aug  1
1369639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman			-4:00	-	-04	1946 Jul 14 24:00
1370639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman			-4:00	1:00	-03	1946 Aug 28 24:00 # central CL
1371639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman			-5:00	1:00	-04	1947 Mar 31 24:00
13728d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1947 May 21 23:00
13738d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03
13748d30ff13SDan McDonaldZone America/Punta_Arenas -4:43:40 -	LMT	1890
1375f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1910 Jan 10
13768d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1916 Jul  1
1377f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1918 Sep 10
13788d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1919 Jul  1
1379f7331dddSAndy Fiddaman			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1927 Sep  1
13808d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Chile	-05/-04	1932 Sep  1
13818d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1942 Jun  1
13828d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1942 Aug  1
1383639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman			-4:00	-	-04	1946 Aug 28 24:00
1384639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman			-5:00	1:00	-04	1947 Mar 31 24:00
13858d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1947 May 21 23:00
13868d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03	2016 Dec  4
13878d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
13885d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Easter	-7:17:28 -	LMT	1890
13895d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-7:17:28 -	EMT	1932 Sep    # Easter Mean Time
13908d30ff13SDan McDonald			-7:00	Chile	-07/-06	1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
13918d30ff13SDan McDonald			-6:00	Chile	-06/-05
13925d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
13935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
13945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
13955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
13965d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Antarctic base using South American rules
13985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (See the file 'antarctica' for more.)
13995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
14015d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
14035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
14045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
14055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
14065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Palmer has followed Chile.  Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
14075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
14085d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14098a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
14105d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Antarctica/Palmer	0	-	-00	1965
14118d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
14128d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1982 May
14138d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03	2016 Dec  4
14148d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
14155d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Colombia
14175d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1418639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman# Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogotá time in 1899.  He writes,
14195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
14205d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1421*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman# From Alois Treindl (2022-11-10):
1422*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman# End of time change in Colombia 1993 ... should be 6 February 24h ...
1423*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman# DECRETO 267 DE 1993
1424*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman# https://www.suin-juriscol.gov.co/viewDocument.asp?ruta=Decretos/1061335
1425*42067bc4SAndy Fiddaman
1426c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1427a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	CO	1992	only	-	May	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
1428*42067bc4SAndy FiddamanRule	CO	1993	only	-	Feb	 6	24:00	0	-
14298a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1430639e6f6dSAndy Fiddaman		#STDOFF	-4:56:16.4
14315d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	America/Bogota	-4:56:16 -	LMT	1884 Mar 13
14325d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:56:16 -	BMT	1914 Nov 23 # Bogotá Mean Time
14338d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	CO	-05/-04
14345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
14355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no information; probably like America/Bogota
14365d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14375d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Ecuador
14395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
14415d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14428d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Alois Treindl (2016-12-15):
14435ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/hora-sixto-1993.html
14448d30ff13SDan McDonald# ... Whether the law applied also to Galápagos, I do not know.
14458d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-15):
14465ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.elcomercio.com/afull/modificacion-husohorario-ecuador-presidentes-decreto.html
14478d30ff13SDan McDonald# This says President Sixto Durán Ballén signed decree No. 285, which
14488d30ff13SDan McDonald# established DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05; it does not give transition
14498d30ff13SDan McDonald# times.  The people called it "hora de Sixto" ("Sixto hour").  The change did
14508d30ff13SDan McDonald# not go over well; a popular song "Qué hora es" by Jaime Guevara had lyrics
14518d30ff13SDan McDonald# that included "Amanecía en mitad de la noche, los guaguas iban a clase sin
14528d30ff13SDan McDonald# sol" ("It was dawning in the middle of the night, the buses went to class
14538d30ff13SDan McDonald# without sun").  Although Ballén's campaign slogan was "Ni un paso atrás"
14548d30ff13SDan McDonald# (Not one step back), the clocks went back in 1993 and the experiment was not
14558d30ff13SDan McDonald# repeated.  For now, assume transitions were at 00:00 local time country-wide.
14568d30ff13SDan McDonald#
1457c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1458a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Ecuador	1992	only	-	Nov	28	0:00	1:00	-
14598d30ff13SDan McDonaldRule	Ecuador	1993	only	-	Feb	 5	0:00	0	-
14605d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14618a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
14625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Guayaquil	-5:19:20 -	LMT	1890
14635d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-5:14:00 -	QMT	1931 # Quito Mean Time
14648d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Ecuador	-05/-04
14655d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Galapagos	-5:58:24 -	LMT	1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
14668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	-	-05	1986
14678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-6:00	Ecuador	-06/-05
14685d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Falklands
14705d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
14725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except
14735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the IATA gives 1996-09-08.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
14745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22)
14765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# via Jesper Nørgaard:
14775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... the clocks revert back to Local Mean Time at 2 am on Sunday 15
14785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# April 2001 and advance one hour to summer time at 2 am on Sunday 2
14795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# September.  It is anticipated that the clocks will revert back at 2
14805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# am on Sunday 21 April 2002 and advance to summer time at 2 am on
14815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sunday 1 September.
14825d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (2001-02-13):
14845d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I have communicated several times with people there, and the last
14865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time I had communications that was helpful was in 1998.  Here is
14875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# what was said then:
14885d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "The general rule was that Stanley used daylight saving and the Camp
14905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# did not. However for various reasons many people in the Camp have
14915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# started to use daylight saving (known locally as 'Stanley Time')
14925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There is no rule as to who uses daylight saving - it is a matter of
14935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# personal choice and so it is impossible to draw a map showing who
14945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uses it and who does not. Any list would be out of date as soon as
14955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it was produced. This year daylight saving ended on April 18/19th
14965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and started again on September 12/13th.  I do not know what the rule
14975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is, but can find out if you like.  We do not change at the same time
14985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# as UK or Chile."
14995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I did have in my notes that the rule was "Second Saturday in Sep at
15015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 0:00 until third Saturday in Apr at 0:00".  I think that this does
15025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# not agree in some cases with Shanks; is this true?
15035d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Also, there is no mention in the list that some areas in the
15055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Falklands do not use DST.  I have found in my communications there
15065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that these areas are on the western half of East Falkland and all of
15075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# West Falkland.  Stanley is the only place that consistently observes
15085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST.  Again, as in other places in the world, the farmers don't like
15095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it.  West Falkland is almost entirely sheep farmers.
15105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I know one lady there that keeps a list of which farm keeps DST and
15125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which doesn't each year.  She runs a shop in Stanley, and says that
15135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the list changes each year.  She uses it to communicate to her
15145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# customers, catching them when they are home for lunch or dinner.
15155d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
15175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, we'll just record the time in Stanley, since we have no
15185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# better info.
15195d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-04-01):
15215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Falkland Islands will not turn back clocks this winter, but stay on
15225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# daylight saving time.
15235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# One source:
15255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=5914&source=3
15265d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We have gotten this confirmed by a clerk of the legislative assembly:
15285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Normally the clocks revert to Local Mean Time (UTC/GMT -4 hours) on the
15295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# third Sunday of April at 0200hrs and advance to Summer Time (UTC/GMT -3
15305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hours) on the first Sunday of September at 0200hrs.
15315d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IMPORTANT NOTE: During 2011, on a trial basis, the Falkland Islands
15335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# will not revert to local mean time, but clocks will remain on Summer
15345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time (UTC/GMT - 3 hours) throughout the whole of 2011.  Any long term
15355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# change to local time following the trial period will be notified.
15365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Andrew Newman (2012-02-24)
15385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A letter from Justin McPhee, Chief Executive,
15395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands (dated 2012-02-22)
15405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# states...
15415d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   The current Atlantic/Stanley entry under South America expects the
15425d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   clocks to go back to standard Falklands Time (FKT) on the 15th April.
15435d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   The database entry states that in 2011 Stanley was staying on fixed
15445d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   summer time on a trial basis only.  FIG need to contact IANA and/or
15455d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   the maintainers of the database to inform them we're adopting
15465d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   the same policy this year and suggest recommendations for future years.
15475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1548a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# For now we will assume permanent -03 for the Falklands
15495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# until advised differently (to apply for 2012 and beyond, after the 2011
15505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# experiment was apparently successful.)
1551c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1552a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1937	1938	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
15535d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Falk	1938	1942	-	Mar	Sun>=19	0:00	0	-
1554a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1939	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	1:00	-
1555a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1940	1942	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
15565d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Falk	1943	only	-	Jan	1	0:00	0	-
1557a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1983	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
15585d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Falk	1984	1985	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	0	-
1559a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1984	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	1:00	-
1560a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	1985	2000	-	Sep	Sun>=9	0:00	1:00	-
15615d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Falk	1986	2000	-	Apr	Sun>=16	0:00	0	-
15625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Falk	2001	2010	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
1563a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Falk	2001	2010	-	Sep	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
15648a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
15655d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Atlantic/Stanley	-3:51:24 -	LMT	1890
15665d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-3:51:24 -	SMT	1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
15678d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Falk	-04/-03	1983 May
15688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Falk	-03/-02	1985 Sep 15
15698d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Falk	-04/-03	2010 Sep  5  2:00
15708d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
15715d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# French Guiana
15738a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
15745d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Cayenne	-3:29:20 -	LMT	1911 Jul
15758d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1967 Oct
15768d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
15775d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Guyana
1579743cf225SAndy Fiddaman
1580743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# From P Chan (2020-11-27):
1581743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# https://books.google.com/books?id=5-5CAQAAMAAJ&pg=SA1-PA547
1582743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# The Official Gazette of British Guiana. (New Series.) Vol. XL. July to
1583743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# December, 1915, p 1547, lists as several notes:
1584743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# "Local Mean Time 3 hours 52 mins. 39 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time
1585743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# (Georgetown.) From 1st August, 1911, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 4
1586743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# hours slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on 1st July,
1587743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# 1911.  From 1st March, 1915, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 3 hours 45
1588743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# mins. 0 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on
1589743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# 23rd January, 1915."
1590743cf225SAndy Fiddaman#
1591743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/10923-act_no._27_of_1975_-_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1975.pdf
1592743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1975 (Act No. 27 of 1975)
1593743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# [dated 1975-07-31]
1594743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# "This Act...shall come into operation on 1st August, 1975."
1595743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# "...where any expression of time occurs...the time referred to shall signify
1596743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# the standard time of Guyana which shall be three hours behind Greenwich Mean
1597743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# Time."
1598743cf225SAndy Fiddaman#
1599743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# Circular No. 10/1992 dated 1992-03-20
1600743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# https://dps.gov.gy/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1992-03-20-Circular-010.pdf
1601743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# "...cabinet has decided that with effect from Sunday 29th March, 1992, Guyana
1602743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# Standard Time would be re-established at 01:00 hours by adjusting the hands
1603743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# of the clock back to 24:00 hours."
1604743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# Legislated in the Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1992
1605743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# (Act No. 6 of 1992) [passed 1992-03-27, published 1992-04-18]
1606743cf225SAndy Fiddaman# https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/5885-6_of_1992_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1992.pdf
1607743cf225SAndy Fiddaman
16088a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1609743cf225SAndy FiddamanZone	America/Guyana	-3:52:39 -	LMT	1911 Aug  1 # Georgetown
1610743cf225SAndy Fiddaman			-4:00	-	-04	1915 Mar  1
1611743cf225SAndy Fiddaman			-3:45	-	-0345	1975 Aug  1
1612743cf225SAndy Fiddaman			-3:00	-	-03	1992 Mar 29  1:00
16138d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
16145d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Paraguay
16165d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
16185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are 01:00 -> 02:00,
16195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and autumn transitions are 00:00 -> 23:00.  Go with pre-1999
16205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00.
16215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (2013-09-20):
16235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
16245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
16255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1626c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1627a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1975	1988	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
16285d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1975	1978	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
16295d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1979	1991	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1630a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1989	only	-	Oct	22	0:00	1:00	-
1631a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1990	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1632a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1991	only	-	Oct	 6	0:00	1:00	-
16335d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1992	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
1634a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1992	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00	1:00	-
16355d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1993	only	-	Mar	31	0:00	0	-
1636a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1993	1995	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
16375d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1994	1995	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	0	-
16385d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1996	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
16395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM (2000-02) says 1999-10-10; ignore this for now.
16405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-02):
16415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I have three independent reports that Paraguay changed to DST this Sunday
16425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (10-01).
16435d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
16455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
16465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
16475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
16485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power....  The time change
16495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# system has been operating for several years.  Formerly there was a separate
16505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# decree each year; the new law has the same effect, but permanently.  Every
16515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the
16525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March.
16535d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1654a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	1996	2001	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
16555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
16565d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1997	only	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	0	-
16575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but
16585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
16595d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	1998	2001	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
16605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
16615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
16625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
16635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# April.
16645d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	2002	2004	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
1665a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	2002	2003	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
16665d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-01-02):
16685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made
16695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# a timezone rule change in autumn 2004.
16705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
16715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
16725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
16735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
1674a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	2004	2009	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
16755d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	2005	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
16765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18):
16775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# By decree number 3958 issued yesterday
16785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decreto3958.pdf
16795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Paraguay changes its DST schedule, postponing the March rule to April and
16805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# modifying the October date. The decree reads:
16815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
16825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Art. 1. It is hereby established that from the second Sunday of the month of
16835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
16845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
16855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
16865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
1687a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Para	2010	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
16885d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	2010	2012	-	Apr	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
16895d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
16915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
16925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
16935d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
16945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2013-03-15):
16955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The change in Paraguay is now final.  Decree number 10780
16965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
16975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2014-02-28):
16985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Decree 1264 can be found at:
16995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/archivos/documentos/DECRETO1264_ey9r8zai.pdf
17005d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Para	2013	max	-	Mar	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
17015d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17028a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
17035d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Asuncion	-3:50:40 -	LMT	1890
17045d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-3:50:40 -	AMT	1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time
17058d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	1972 Oct
17068d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03	1974 Apr
17078d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	Para	-04/-03
17085d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Peru
17105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
17115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26)
17125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# <news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>:
17135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over
17145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon.
17155d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
17165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
17175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition.  Assume 1986 was like 1987.
17185d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1719c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1720a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Peru	1938	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
17215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Peru	1938	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1722a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Peru	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
17235d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Peru	1939	1940	-	Mar	Sun>=24	0:00	0	-
1724a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Peru	1986	1987	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
17255d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Peru	1986	1987	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1726a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Peru	1990	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
17275d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Peru	1990	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
17285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1729a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Peru	1994	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
17305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Peru	1994	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
17318a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
17325d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	America/Lima	-5:08:12 -	LMT	1890
17335d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-5:08:36 -	LMT	1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time?
17348d30ff13SDan McDonald			-5:00	Peru	-05/-04
17355d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Georgia
17378a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
17385d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 -	LMT	1890 # Grytviken
17398d30ff13SDan McDonald			-2:00	-	-02
17405d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Sandwich Is
17425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered
17435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Suriname
17458a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
17465d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone America/Paramaribo	-3:40:40 -	LMT	1911
17475d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-3:40:52 -	PMT	1935     # Paramaribo Mean Time
17485d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-3:40:36 -	PMT	1945 Oct    # The capital moved?
17498d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:30	-	-0330	1984 Oct
17508d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	-	-03
17515d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Uruguay
17535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
17545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
1755a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1756a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-20), per Jeremie Bonjour (2018-01-31) and Michael
1757a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Deckers (2018-02-20):
1758a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# ... At least they kept good records...
1759a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1760a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.armada.mil.uy/ContenidosPDFs/sohma/web/almanaque/almanaque_2018.pdf#page=36
1761a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Page 36 of Almanaque 2018, published by the Oceanography, Hydrography, and
1762a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Meteorology Service of the Uruguayan Navy, seems to give many transitions
1763a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# with greater clarity than we've had before.  It directly references many laws
1764a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# and decrees which are, in turn, referenced below.  They can be viewed in the
1765a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# public archives of the Diario Oficial (in Spanish) at
1766a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/
1767a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1768a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Ley No. 3920 of 1908-06-10 placed the determination of legal time under the
1769a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# auspices of the National Institute for the Prediction of Time.  It is unclear
1770a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# exactly what offset was used during this period, though Ley No. 7200 of
1771a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1920-04-23 used the Observatory of the National Meteorological Institute in
1772a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Montevideo (34° 54' 33" S, 56° 12' 45" W) as its reference meridian,
1773a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# retarding legal time by 15 minutes 9 seconds from 1920-04-30 24:00,
1774a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# resulting in UT-04.  Assume the corresponding LMT of UT-03:44:51 (given on
1775a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# page 725 of the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress,
1776a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1915-1916) was in use, and merely became official from 1908-06-10.
1777a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1908/06/18/12
1778a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1920/04/27/9
1779a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1780a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Ley No. 7594 of 1923-06-28 specified legal time as Observatory time advanced
1781a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# by 44 minutes 51 seconds (UT-03) "from 30 September to 31 March", and by 14
1782a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# minutes 51 seconds (UT-03:30) "the rest of the year"; a message from the
1783a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# National Council of Administration the same day, published directly below the
1784a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# law in the Diario Oficial, specified the first transition to be 1923-09-30
1785a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 24:00.  This effectively established standard time at UT-03:30 with 30
1786a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# minutes DST.  Assume transitions at 24:00 on the specified days until Ley No.
1787a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 7919 of 1926-03-05 ended this arrangement, repealing all "laws and other
1788a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# provisions which oppose" it, resulting in year-round UT-03:30; a Resolución
1789a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# of 1926-03-11 puts the final transition at 1926-03-31 24:00, the same as it
1790a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# would have been under the previous law.
1791a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1923/07/02/2
1792a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/10/2
1793a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/18/2
1794a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1795c5580037SRobert Mustacchi# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1796a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1923	1925	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
17975d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1924	1926	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
1798a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1799a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1933/10/27/6
1800a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1801a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# It appears Ley No. 9122 of 1933 was never published as such in the Diario
1802a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Oficial, but instead appeared as Document 26 in the Diario on Friday
1803a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1933-10-27 as a decree made Monday 1933-10-23 and filed under the Ministry of
1804a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# National Defense.  It reinstituted a DST of 30 minutes (to UT-03) "from the
1805a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# last Sunday of October...until the last Saturday of March."  In accordance
1806a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# with this provision, the first transition was explicitly specified in Article
1807a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 2 of the decree as Saturday 1933-10-28 at 24:00; that is, Sunday 1933-10-29
1808a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# at 00:00.  Assume transitions at 00:00 Sunday throughout.
1809a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1810a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Departing from the matter-of-fact nature of previous timekeeping laws, the
1811a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1933 decree "consider[s] the advantages of...the advance of legal time":
1812a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1813a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#   "Whereas: The measure adopted by almost all nations at the time of the last
1814a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    World War still persists in North America and Europe, precisely because of
1815a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    the economic, hygienic, and social advantages derived from such an
1816a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    emergency measure...
1817a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1818a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    Whereas: The advance of the legal time during the summer seasons, by
1819a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    displacing social activity near sunrise, favors the citizen populations
1820a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    and especially the society that creates and works..."
1821a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1822a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# It further specified that "necessary measures" be taken to ensure that
1823a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# "public spectacles finish, in general, before [01:00]."
1824a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1933	1938	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0:30	-
1825a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1934	1941	-	Mar	lastSat	24:00	0	-
1826a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1827a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Most of the Rules below, and their contemporaneous Zone lines, have been
1828a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# updated simply to match the Almanaque 2018.  Although the document does not
1829a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# list exact transition times, midnight transitions were already present in our
1830a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# data here for all transitions through 2004-09, and this is both consistent
1831a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# with prior transitions and verified in several decrees marked below between
1832a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1939-09 and 2004-09, wherein the relevant text was typically of the form:
1833a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1834a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#   "From 0 hours on [date], the legal time of the entire Republic will be...
1835a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1836a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    In accordance with [the preceding], on [previous date] at 24 hours, all
1837a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#    clocks throughout the Republic will be [advanced/retarded] by..."
1838a6c652dbSYuri Pankov#
1839a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# It is possible that there is greater specificity to be found for the Rules
1840a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# below, but it is buried in no fewer than 40 different decrees individually
1841a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# referenced by the Almanaque for the period from 1939-09 to 2014-09.
1842a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Four-fifths of these were promulgated less than two weeks before taking
1843a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# effect; more than half within a week and none more than 5 weeks.  Only the
1844a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# handful with comments below have been checked with any thoroughness.
1845a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1939	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
1846a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1940	only	-	Oct	27	 0:00	0:30	-
1847a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1848a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 1145 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1941-07-26, specified
1849a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# UT-03 from Friday 1941-08-01 00:00, citing an "urgent...need to save fuel".
1850a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1941/08/04/1
1851a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1941	only	-	Aug	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
1852a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1853a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 1866 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1942-12-09, specified
1854a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# further advancement (to UT-02:30) from Sunday 1942-12-13 24:00.  Since clocks
1855a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# never went back to UT-03:30 thereafter, this is modeled as advancing standard
1856a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# time by 30 minutes to UT-03, while retaining 30 minutes of DST.
1857a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1942/12/16/3
1858a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1942	only	-	Dec	14	 0:00	0:30	-
18595d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1943	only	-	Mar	14	 0:00	0	-
1860a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1959	only	-	May	24	 0:00	0:30	-
18615d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1959	only	-	Nov	15	 0:00	0	-
1862a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1960	only	-	Jan	17	 0:00	1:00	-
18635d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1960	only	-	Mar	 6	 0:00	0	-
1864a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1965	only	-	Apr	 4	 0:00	1:00	-
18655d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1965	only	-	Sep	26	 0:00	0	-
1866a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1867a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 321/968 of 1968-05-25, citing emergency drought measures decreed the
1868a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# day before, brought clocks forward 30 minutes from Monday 1968-05-27 00:00.
1869a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1968/05/30/5
1870a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1968	only	-	May	27	 0:00	0:30	-
1871a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1968	only	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	0	-
1872a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1873a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 188/970 of 1970-04-23 instituted restrictions on electricity
1874a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# consumption "as a consequence of the current rainfall regime in the country".
1875a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Articles 13 and 14 advanced clocks by an hour from Saturday 1970-04-25 00:00.
1876a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1970/04/29/4
1877a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1970	only	-	Apr	25	 0:00	1:00	-
1878a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1970	only	-	Jun	14	 0:00	0	-
1879a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1972	only	-	Apr	23	 0:00	1:00	-
1880a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1972	only	-	Jul	16	 0:00	0	-
1881a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1882a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 29/974 of 1974-01-11, citing "the international rise in the price of
1883a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# oil", advanced clocks by 90 minutes (to UT-01:30).  Decreto 163/974 of
1884a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1974-03-04 returned 60 of those minutes (to UT-02:30), and the remaining 30
1885a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# minutes followed in Decreto 679/974 of 1974-08-29.
1886a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/01/22/11
1887a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/03/14/3
1888a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/09/04/6
1889a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Jan	13	 0:00	1:30	-
1890a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Mar	10	 0:00	0:30	-
1891a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	0	-
1892a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Dec	22	 0:00	1:00	-
1893a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1975	only	-	Mar	30	 0:00	0	-
1894a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1976	only	-	Dec	19	 0:00	1:00	-
1895a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1977	only	-	Mar	 6	 0:00	0	-
1896a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1977	only	-	Dec	 4	 0:00	1:00	-
1897a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1978	1979	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 0:00	0	-
1898a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1978	only	-	Dec	17	 0:00	1:00	-
1899a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1979	only	-	Apr	29	 0:00	1:00	-
1900a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1980	only	-	Mar	16	 0:00	0	-
1901a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1902a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 725/987 of 1987-12-04 cited "better use of national tourist
1903a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# attractions" to advance clocks one hour from Monday 1987-12-14 00:00.
1904a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1988/01/25/1
1905a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1987	only	-	Dec	14	 0:00	1:00	-
1906a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1988	only	-	Feb	28	 0:00	0	-
1907a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1988	only	-	Dec	11	 0:00	1:00	-
1908a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1989	only	-	Mar	 5	 0:00	0	-
1909a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1989	only	-	Oct	29	 0:00	1:00	-
1910a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1990	only	-	Feb	25	 0:00	0	-
1911a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Paul Eggert (1999-11-04):
1912a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# IATA agrees as below for 1990-10 through 1993-02.  Per Almanaque 2018, the
1913a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 1992/1993 season appears to be the first in over half a century where DST
1914a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# both began and ended pursuant to the same decree.
1915a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1990	1991	-	Oct	Sun>=21	 0:00	1:00	-
1916a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1991	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 0:00	0	-
1917a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	1992	only	-	Oct	18	 0:00	1:00	-
19185d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	1993	only	-	Feb	28	 0:00	0	-
19195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
19205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
1921a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1922a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 328/004 of 2004-09-15.
1923a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2004/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
1924a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	2004	only	-	Sep	19	 0:00	1:00	-
19255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
19265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to
19275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# save energy ... it was postponed two weeks....
1928a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1929a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# This 2005 postponement is not in Almanaque 2018.  Go with the contemporaneous
1930a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# reporting, which is confirmed by Decreto 107/005 of 2005-03-10 amending
1931a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 328/004:
1932a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/03/15/documentos.pdf#page=1
1933a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# The original decree specified a transition of 2005-03-12 24:00, but the new
1934a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# one specified 2005-03-27 02:00.
19355d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Uruguay	2005	only	-	Mar	27	 2:00	0	-
19365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27):
1937a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# ...from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at 02:00 local time,
1938a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
1939a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1940a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 318/005 of 2005-09-19.
1941a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
1942a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	2005	only	-	Oct	 9	 2:00	1:00	-
1943a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	2006	2015	-	Mar	Sun>=8	 2:00	0	-
1944a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
1945a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 311/006 of 2006-09-04 established regular DST from the first Sunday
1946a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# of October at 02:00 through the second Sunday of March at 02:00.  Almanaque
1947a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 2018 appears to have a few typoed dates through this period; ignore them.
1948a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2006/09/08/documentos.pdf#page=1
1949a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Uruguay	2006	2014	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00	1:00	-
19505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
19515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
19525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
19535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
19545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
19555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
19565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead of out to dinner.
19575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
19585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
1959a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1960a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Decreto 178/015 of 2015-06-29; repeals Decreto 311/006.
19618d30ff13SDan McDonald
19628d30ff13SDan McDonald# This Zone can be simplified once we assume zic %z.
1963a6c652dbSYuri PankovZone America/Montevideo	-3:44:51 -	LMT	1908 Jun 10
1964a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-3:44:51 -	MMT	1920 May  1 # Montevideo MT
1965a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-4:00	-	-04	1923 Oct  1
19668d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:30	Uruguay	-0330/-03 1942 Dec 14
1967a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1960
19688d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02	1968
1969a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1970
19708d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02	1974
1971a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0130 1974 Mar 10
19728d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1974 Dec 22
19738d30ff13SDan McDonald			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02
19745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Venezuela
19765d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
19785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
19795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
19805d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
19825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
19835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# been brought forward to 2007-12-09.  The official announcement was
19845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana
19855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# de Venezuela, número 38.819" (official document for all laws or
19865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# resolution publication)
19875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
19885d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-04-15):
19905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/204758-venezuela-modificar-huso-horario-sequia-elnino
19915d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2016-04-15):
19935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Clocks advance 30 minutes on 2016-05-01 at 02:30....
19945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "'Venezuela's new time-zone: hours without light, hours without water,
19955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hours of presidential broadcasts, hours of lines,' quipped comedian
19965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Jean Mary Curró ...". See: Cawthorne A, Kai D. Venezuela scraps
19975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# half-hour time difference set by Chavez. Reuters 2016-04-15 14:50 -0400
19985ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-timezone-idUSKCN0XC2BE
19995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
20005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-20):
20015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... published in the official Gazette [2016-04-18], here:
20025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://historico.tsj.gob.ve/gaceta_ext/abril/1842016/E-1842016-4551.pdf
20035d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20048a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
20055d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	America/Caracas	-4:27:44 -	LMT	1890
20065d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-4:27:40 -	CMT	1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
20078d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:30	-	-0430	1965 Jan  1  0:00
20088d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04	2007 Dec  9  3:00
20098d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:30	-	-0430	2016 May  1  2:30
20108d30ff13SDan McDonald			-4:00	-	-04
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