southamerica revision 1.5 1 # tzdb data for South America and environs
2
3 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
4 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
5
6 # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
7 # go ahead and edit the file, and please send any changes to
8 # the public mailing list tz (a] iana.org for general use in the future.
9 # For more, please see the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
10
11 # From Paul Eggert (2016-12-05):
12 #
13 # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
14 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
15 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
16 # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
17 #
18 # Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
19 # for time zone data was the International Air Transport
20 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
21 # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
22 # of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted,
23 # IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
24 #
25 # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
26 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
27 # https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
28 #
29 # These tables use numeric abbreviations like -03 and -0330 for
30 # integer hour and minute UT offsets. Although earlier editions used
31 # alphabetic time zone abbreviations, these abbreviations were
32 # invented and did not reflect common practice.
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37
38 # Argentina
39
40 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
41 # Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976.
42 # Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974. Switches at midnight.
43
44 # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-19):
45 # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC
46
47 # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
48 # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
49 # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.
50
51 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
52 Rule Arg 1930 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 -
53 Rule Arg 1931 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
54 Rule Arg 1931 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 -
55 Rule Arg 1932 1940 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
56 Rule Arg 1932 1939 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 -
57 Rule Arg 1940 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 -
58 Rule Arg 1941 only - Jun 15 0:00 0 -
59 Rule Arg 1941 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 -
60 Rule Arg 1943 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
61 Rule Arg 1943 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 -
62 Rule Arg 1946 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
63 Rule Arg 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 -
64 Rule Arg 1963 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
65 Rule Arg 1963 only - Dec 15 0:00 1:00 -
66 Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
67 Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 -
68 Rule Arg 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 -
69 Rule Arg 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
70 Rule Arg 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
71 Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 -
72 Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 -
73 Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 -
74 #
75 # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
76 # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
77 # obtaining the data from the:
78 # Talleres de Hidrografa Naval Argentina
79 # (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute)
80 Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
81 Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 -
82 #
83 # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
84 # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
85 # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
86 # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.
87 #
88 # From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
89 # On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time,
90 # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
91 # from the International Date Line.
92 Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
93 # From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28):
94 # DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted
95 # to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that
96 # it ended on March 3.
97 Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 -
98 #
99 # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01):
100 # We just checked with our So Paulo office and they say the government of
101 # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST.
102 # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
103 #
104 # From Fabin L. Arce Jofr (2000-04-04):
105 # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
106 # de la Ra on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
107 # in the winter time, rather than less. The change took effect on March 3.
108 #
109 # From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06):
110 # one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999
111 # Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
112 # in effect.... The article is at
113 # http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
114 # ... The Law itself is "Ley No. 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
115 # 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21. The official publication is at:
116 # http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
117 # Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
118 #
119 # (2001-06-12):
120 # the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday.
121 # Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th....
122 # http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm
123 #
124 # (2001-06-25):
125 # Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the
126 # Senate annulled the 1999 law that introduced the changes later postponed.
127 # http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm
128 # It remains the vote of the Deputies..., but it will be the same....
129 # This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina.
130 # We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country.
131 #
132 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21):
133 # A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST....
134 # all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected. News reports like
135 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate
136 # that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to
137 # March, although exact rules are not given.
138 #
139 # From Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2007-12-26)
140 # The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in
141 # the lower chamber too (Diputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against.
142 # By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to
143 # the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are
144 # clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval:
145 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996
146 #
147 # From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22):
148 # For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and
149 # are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
150
151 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-09-05):
152 # As per message from Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz (Nicaragua),
153 # Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008.
154 #
155 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
156 # http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
157
158 # From Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
159 # via Rodrigo Severo:
160 # Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
161 # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
162 # The new one is law No. 26.350
163 # http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
164 # So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
165
166 # From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
167 # Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
168 # in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
169 # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
170 #
171
172 # Decree 1705/2008 excepting 12 Provinces from applying DST in the summer
173 # 2008/2009: Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, La
174 # Pampa, Neuqun, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
175 # http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
176 #
177 # Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
178 # Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
179 # included in Decree 1705/2008).
180 # http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
181
182 # From fullinet (2009-10-18):
183 # As announced in
184 # http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
185 # (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
186 # (English: "No hour change").
187 #
188 # "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvi no modificar la hora
189 # oficial, decisin que estaba en estudio para su implementacin el
190 # domingo 18 de octubre. Desde el Ministerio de Planificacin se anunci
191 # que la Argentina hoy, en estas condiciones meteorolgicas, no necesita
192 # la modificacin del huso horario, ya que 2009 nos encuentra con
193 # crecimiento en la produccin y distribucin energtica."
194
195 Rule Arg 2007 only - Dec 30 0:00 1:00 -
196 Rule Arg 2008 2009 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
197 Rule Arg 2008 only - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 -
198
199 # From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21):
200 # Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing
201 # its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night....
202 # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf
203 # From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24):
204 # It's Law No. 7,210. This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
205 # now we'll assume it's for this year only.
206 #
207 # From Paul Eggert (2018-01-31):
208 # Hora de verano para la Repblica Argentina
209 # http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
210 # says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
211 # to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25. Go with this more precise value
212 # over Shanks & Pottenger. It is upward compatible with Milne, who
213 # says Crdoba time was -4:16:48.2.
214
215 #
216 # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
217 # These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
218 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
219 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
220 #
221 # The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
222 # midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
223 # Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
224 # time in October 17th.
225 #
226 # Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
227 # Tierra del Fuego, Tucumn.
228 #
229 # From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14):
230 # ... this weekend, the Province of Tucumn decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00
231 # yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's
232 # annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained....
233 #
234 # From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14):
235 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ...
236 # "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from
237 # the start. The government had decreed that the measure would take
238 # effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin
239 # three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday....
240 # Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place
241 # on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other
242 # provinces). Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier. So the article
243 # contains a contradiction. I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
244 # date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
245 # Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
246 #
247 # From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
248 # The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
249 # back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
250 # new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
251 # http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
252 #
253 # From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
254 # San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
255 # Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st. It changed back to UTC-03:00
256 # at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
257 # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
258 # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html
259 # http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html
260
261 # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17):
262 # Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST
263 # as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008:
264 #
265 # Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del pas
266 # (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the
267 # country)
268 # http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel
269 #
270 # Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes
271 # (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay)
272 # https://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/253414/Economia/Es-inminente-que-en-San-Luis-atrasen-una-hora-los-relojes.html
273 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html
274
275 # From Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2008-01-18):
276 # The page of the San Luis provincial government
277 # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812
278 # confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz
279 # emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard
280 # time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also
281 # confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
282 # refused to follow San Luis in this change.
283 #
284 # The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
285 # hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
286 # a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
287 # independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
288 # 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed).
289
290 # From Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2008-01-25):
291 # Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis
292 # time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most
293 # important pages of 2008."
294 #
295 # You can use
296 # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834
297 # instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis
298 # government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages
299 # from which the first one is identical to the above.
300
301 # From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28):
302 # I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that
303 # province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
304 # (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back
305 # 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round
306 # (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now).
307 #
308 # So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San
309 # Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be
310 # America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's
311 # history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-(
312 # (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis
313 # back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
314 # mailed them personally and never got an answer).
315
316 # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
317 # Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
318 # 1992, from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
319 # America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
320 # was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
321 # keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
322 # other 5 subregions.
323
324 # From Mariano Absatz (2009-03-13):
325 # Yesterday (with our usual 2-day notice) the Province of San Luis
326 # decided that next Sunday instead of "staying" @utc-03:00 they will go
327 # to utc-04:00 until the second Saturday in October...
328 #
329 # The press release is at
330 # http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/SL/Paginas/NoticiaDetalle.asp?TemaId=1&InfoPrensaId=3102
331 # (I couldn't find the decree, but www.sanluis.gov.ar
332 # is the official page for the Province Government.)
333 #
334 # There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
335 # http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
336 #
337 # The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
338 # ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
339 # inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
340 #
341 # Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
342 # during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
343 # in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
344
345 # From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16):
346 # ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself.
347 #
348 # The Law at
349 # http://www.diputadossanluis.gov.ar/diputadosasp/paginas/verNorma.asp?NormaID=276
350 # is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in
351 # October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the
352 # complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and
353 # ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00.
354 #
355 # This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday.
356 #
357 # IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd
358 # Sunday of October and March.
359 #
360 # The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did
361 # change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees
362 # that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March.
363 #
364 # In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday
365 # (October 11th) at 0:00.
366 #
367 # So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last
368 # America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these...
369 # ...
370
371 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
372 # According to news reports from El Diario de la Repblica Province San
373 # Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
374 # after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
375 # Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
376 #
377 # Confirmaron la prrroga del huso horario de verano (Spanish)
378 # http://www.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29383&Itemid=9
379 # or (some English translation):
380 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina08.html
381
382 # From Mariano Absatz (2010-04-12):
383 # yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
384 # UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
385 # rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
386 # stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
387
388 # From Paul Eggert (2018-01-23):
389 # Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at -04
390 # with perpetual daylight saving time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
391 # just say it's at -03; see, for example,
392 # https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
393 # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
394 # standard time, so let's do that here too. This does not change UTC
395 # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations. One minor
396 # plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
397 # setting for timestamps past 2038.
398
399 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
400 #
401 # Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
402 Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
403 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
404 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Crdoba Mean Time
405 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
406 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
407 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
408 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
409 -3:00 Arg %z
410 #
411 # Crdoba (CB), Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ros (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN),
412 # Chaco (CC), Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE)
413 #
414 # Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified:
415 # - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
416 # - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
417 # - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
418 # - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
419 # then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
420 #
421 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
422 Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
423 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
424 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
425 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
426 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 3
427 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 20
428 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
429 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
430 -3:00 Arg %z
431 #
432 # Salta (SA), La Pampa (LP), Neuqun (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
433 Zone America/Argentina/Salta -4:21:40 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
434 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
435 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
436 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
437 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
438 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 3
439 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 20
440 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
441 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
442 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
443 -3:00 - %z
444 #
445 # Tucumn (TM)
446 Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
447 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
448 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
449 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
450 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
451 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 3
452 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 20
453 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
454 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
455 -3:00 - %z 2004 Jun 1
456 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jun 13
457 -3:00 Arg %z
458 #
459 # La Rioja (LR)
460 Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
461 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
462 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
463 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
464 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
465 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 1
466 -4:00 - %z 1991 May 7
467 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
468 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
469 -3:00 - %z 2004 Jun 1
470 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jun 20
471 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
472 -3:00 - %z
473 #
474 # San Juan (SJ)
475 Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
476 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
477 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
478 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
479 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
480 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 1
481 -4:00 - %z 1991 May 7
482 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
483 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
484 -3:00 - %z 2004 May 31
485 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jul 25
486 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
487 -3:00 - %z
488 #
489 # Jujuy (JY)
490 Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
491 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
492 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
493 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
494 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
495 -3:00 Arg %z 1990 Mar 4
496 -4:00 - %z 1990 Oct 28
497 -4:00 1:00 %z 1991 Mar 17
498 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 6
499 -3:00 1:00 %z 1992
500 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
501 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
502 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
503 -3:00 - %z
504 #
505 # Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
506 Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
507 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
508 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
509 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
510 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
511 -3:00 Arg %z 1991 Mar 3
512 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 20
513 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
514 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
515 -3:00 - %z 2004 Jun 1
516 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jun 20
517 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
518 -3:00 - %z
519 #
520 # Mendoza (MZ)
521 Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
522 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
523 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
524 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
525 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
526 -3:00 Arg %z 1990 Mar 4
527 -4:00 - %z 1990 Oct 15
528 -4:00 1:00 %z 1991 Mar 1
529 -4:00 - %z 1991 Oct 15
530 -4:00 1:00 %z 1992 Mar 1
531 -4:00 - %z 1992 Oct 18
532 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
533 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
534 -3:00 - %z 2004 May 23
535 -4:00 - %z 2004 Sep 26
536 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
537 -3:00 - %z
538 #
539 # San Luis (SL)
540
541 Rule SanLuis 2008 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
542 Rule SanLuis 2007 2008 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 -
543
544 Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
545 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
546 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
547 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
548 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
549 -3:00 Arg %z 1990
550 -3:00 1:00 %z 1990 Mar 14
551 -4:00 - %z 1990 Oct 15
552 -4:00 1:00 %z 1991 Mar 1
553 -4:00 - %z 1991 Jun 1
554 -3:00 - %z 1999 Oct 3
555 -4:00 1:00 %z 2000 Mar 3
556 -3:00 - %z 2004 May 31
557 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jul 25
558 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Jan 21
559 -4:00 SanLuis %z 2009 Oct 11
560 -3:00 - %z
561 #
562 # Santa Cruz (SC)
563 Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
564 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
565 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
566 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
567 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
568 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
569 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
570 -3:00 - %z 2004 Jun 1
571 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jun 20
572 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
573 -3:00 - %z
574 #
575 # Tierra del Fuego, Antrtida e Islas del Atlntico Sur (TF)
576 Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
577 #STDOFF -4:16:48.25
578 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May
579 -4:00 - %z 1930 Dec
580 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
581 -3:00 Arg %z 1999 Oct 3
582 -4:00 Arg %z 2000 Mar 3
583 -3:00 - %z 2004 May 30
584 -4:00 - %z 2004 Jun 20
585 -3:00 Arg %z 2008 Oct 18
586 -3:00 - %z
587
588 # Aruba
589 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
590 Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad
591 -4:30 - -0430 1965
592 -4:00 - AST
593
594 # Bolivia
595 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
596 Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890
597 -4:32:36 - CMT 1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT
598 -4:32:36 1:00 BST 1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST
599 -4:00 - %z
600
601 # Brazil
602
603 # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
604 # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
605 # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
606 # The rule change lasted only part of the day;
607 # the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business
608 # was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon.
609
610 # From IATA SSIM (1996-02):
611 # _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS),
612 # Santa Catarina (SC), Paran (PR), So Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ),
613 # Esprito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Gois (GO),
614 # Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL].
615 # [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.]
616
617 # From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07):
618 # Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Gois until 1989), and other
619 # sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were
620 # always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST....
621 # The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91. Each issue from then until
622 # 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95,
623 # along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2
624 # (UTC-4).... The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is
625 # UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is
626 # UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's
627 # become part of the state of Pernambuco). The boundary between BR1 and BR2
628 # has never been clearly stated. They've simply been called East and West.
629 # However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline
630 # Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil. For each
631 # airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM. From that
632 # information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amap (AP), Cear (CE),
633 # Maranho (MA), Paraba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piau (PI), and Rio Grande do
634 # Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Par (PA) are all in BR1 without DST.
635
636 # From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27):
637 # Brazilian official page <http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html>
638
639 # From Jesper Nrgaard (2000-11-03):
640 # [For an official list of which regions in Brazil use which time zones, see:]
641 # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
642 # http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
643
644 # From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
645 # The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
646 #
647 # Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
648 # the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
649 # round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
650 # Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
651 # counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
652 # round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
653 # take place on October 27th.
654 #
655 # The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
656 # of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
657 # Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
658 # the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
659 # (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
660
661 # From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
662 # It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
663 # modern Brazilian ... voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
664 # with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
665
666 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20):
667 # Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00:
668 # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975
669
670 # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
671 # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
672 # Oficial da Unio"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
673 # effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
674 #
675 # a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
676 # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
677 # timezone UTC+4
678 # b) The whole Par state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
679 # part of it, as was before.
680 #
681 # This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that
682 # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying
683 # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone
684 # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections
685 # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This
686 # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,
687 # 1913.
688
689 # From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24):
690 # Just correcting the URL:
691 # https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=25/04/2008
692 #
693 # As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco
694 # timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall
695 # be created to represent the...west side of the Par State. I
696 # suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most
697 # important/populated city in the affected area.
698 #
699 # This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to
700 # the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4.
701
702 # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24):
703 # This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map.
704 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php
705 #
706 # - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones - eliminating time zone UTC-05
707 # (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT-04) - western
708 # part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC-03 (from UTC-04).
709
710 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
711 # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
712 # Decretos sobre o Horrio de Vero no Brasil.
713 # http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
714
715 # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
716 # As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
717 # yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and
718 # it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on
719 # past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that
720 # the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year.
721 #
722 # It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
723 #
724 # An official page about it:
725 # http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722
726 # Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed
727 # by going to
728 # http://www.mme.gov.br/first
729 #
730 # One example link that works directly:
731 # http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54
732 # (Portuguese)
733 #
734 # We have a written a short article about it as well:
735 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html
736 #
737 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-04):
738 # State Bahia will return to Daylight savings time this year after 8 years off.
739 # The announcement was made by Governor Jaques Wagner in an interview to a
740 # television station in Salvador.
741
742 # In Portuguese:
743 # http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/10/governador-jaques-wagner-confirma-horario-de-verao-na-bahia.html
744 # https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
745
746 # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
747 # There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
748 # I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at http://pcdsh01.on.br/ the
749 # official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
750 # still in force.
751
752 # From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
753 # It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
754 # time.
755 # [ and in a second message (same day): ]
756 # I found the decree.
757 #
758 # DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
759 # Link :
760 # http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
761
762 # From Kelley Cook (2012-10-16):
763 # The governor of state of Bahia in Brazil announced on Thursday that
764 # due to public pressure, he is reversing the DST policy they implemented
765 # last year and will not be going to Summer Time on October 21st....
766 # http://www.correio24horas.com.br/r/artigo/apos-pressoes-wagner-suspende-horario-de-verao-na-bahia
767
768 # From Rodrigo Severo (2012-10-16):
769 # Tocantins state will have DST.
770 # https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
771
772 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
773 # Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
774 # http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
775 # We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
776 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
777
778 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-10-17):
779 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html
780 # Senator Jorge Viana announced that Acre will change time zone on November 10.
781 # He did not specify the time of the change, nor if western parts of Amazonas
782 # will change as well.
783 #
784 # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-17):
785 # For now, assume western Amazonas will change as well.
786
787 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
788 # Decree 20,466 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm> (1931-10-01)
789 # Decree 21,896 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm> (1932-01-10)
790 Rule Brazil 1931 only - Oct 3 11:00 1:00 -
791 Rule Brazil 1932 1933 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
792 Rule Brazil 1932 only - Oct 3 0:00 1:00 -
793 # Decree 23,195 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm> (1933-10-10)
794 # revoked DST.
795 # Decree 27,496 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm> (1949-11-24)
796 # Decree 27,998 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm> (1950-04-13)
797 Rule Brazil 1949 1952 - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 -
798 Rule Brazil 1950 only - Apr 16 1:00 0 -
799 Rule Brazil 1951 1952 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
800 # Decree 32,308 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm> (1953-02-24)
801 Rule Brazil 1953 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
802 # Decree 34,724 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm> (1953-11-30)
803 # revoked DST.
804 # Decree 52,700 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm> (1963-10-18)
805 # established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00
806 # in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought.
807 # Decree 53,071 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm> (1963-12-03)
808 # extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09.
809 Rule Brazil 1963 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 -
810 # Decree 53,604 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm> (1964-02-25)
811 # extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school).
812 Rule Brazil 1964 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
813 # Decree 55,639 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm> (1965-01-27)
814 Rule Brazil 1965 only - Jan 31 0:00 1:00 -
815 Rule Brazil 1965 only - Mar 31 0:00 0 -
816 # Decree 57,303 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm> (1965-11-22)
817 Rule Brazil 1965 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 -
818 # Decree 57,843 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm> (1966-02-18)
819 Rule Brazil 1966 1968 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
820 Rule Brazil 1966 1967 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 -
821 # Decree 63,429 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm> (1968-10-15)
822 # revoked DST.
823 # Decree 91,698 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm> (1985-09-27)
824 Rule Brazil 1985 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 -
825 # Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21)
826 # Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13)
827 Rule Brazil 1986 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 -
828 # Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01)
829 Rule Brazil 1986 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 -
830 Rule Brazil 1987 only - Feb 14 0:00 0 -
831 # Decree 94,922 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm> (1987-09-22)
832 Rule Brazil 1987 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 -
833 Rule Brazil 1988 only - Feb 7 0:00 0 -
834 # Decree 96,676 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm> (1988-09-12)
835 # except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory)
836 Rule Brazil 1988 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 -
837 Rule Brazil 1989 only - Jan 29 0:00 0 -
838 # Decree 98,077 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm> (1989-08-21)
839 # with the same exceptions
840 Rule Brazil 1989 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 -
841 Rule Brazil 1990 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 -
842 # Decree 99,530 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm> (1990-09-17)
843 # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF.
844 # Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT.
845 Rule Brazil 1990 only - Oct 21 0:00 1:00 -
846 Rule Brazil 1991 only - Feb 17 0:00 0 -
847 # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm> (1991-09-25)
848 # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF.
849 Rule Brazil 1991 only - Oct 20 0:00 1:00 -
850 Rule Brazil 1992 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 -
851 # Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm> (1992-10-16)
852 # adopted by same states.
853 Rule Brazil 1992 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 -
854 Rule Brazil 1993 only - Jan 31 0:00 0 -
855 # Decree 942 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm> (1993-09-28)
856 # adopted by same states, plus AM.
857 # Decree 1,252 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm> (1994-09-22;
858 # web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM.
859 # Decree 1,636 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm> (1995-09-14)
860 # adopted by same states, plus MT and TO.
861 # Decree 1,674 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm> (1995-10-13)
862 # adds AL, SE.
863 Rule Brazil 1993 1995 - Oct Sun>=11 0:00 1:00 -
864 Rule Brazil 1994 1995 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
865 Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 -
866 # Decree 2,000 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm> (1996-09-04)
867 # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
868 Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 -
869 Rule Brazil 1997 only - Feb 16 0:00 0 -
870 # From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
871 # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
872 # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
873 # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
874 # This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1
875 # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
876 #
877 # Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states.
878 Rule Brazil 1997 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 -
879 # Decree 2,495 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG>
880 # (1998-02-10)
881 Rule Brazil 1998 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
882 # Decree 2,780 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg> (1998-09-11)
883 # adopted by the same states as before.
884 Rule Brazil 1998 only - Oct 11 0:00 1:00 -
885 Rule Brazil 1999 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 -
886 # Decree 3,150 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif>
887 # (1999-08-23) adopted by same states.
888 # Decree 3,188 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif> (1999-09-30)
889 # adds SE, AL, PB, PE, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR.
890 Rule Brazil 1999 only - Oct 3 0:00 1:00 -
891 Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 -
892 # Decree 3,592 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DEC3592.htm> (2000-09-06)
893 # adopted by the same states as before.
894 # Decree 3,630 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3630.jpg> (2000-10-13)
895 # repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00.
896 # Decree 3,632 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3632.jpg> (2000-10-17)
897 # repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
898 # Decree 3,916 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif>
899 # (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
900 Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 -
901 Rule Brazil 2001 2006 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
902 # Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
903 # 4,399 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm>
904 Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 -
905 # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO.
906 # 4,844 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm>
907 Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 -
908 # Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.
909 # 5,223 <http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
910 Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 -
911 # Decree 5,539 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif> (2005-09-19),
912 # adopted by the same states as before.
913 Rule Brazil 2005 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 -
914 # Decree 5,920 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5920.gif> (2006-10-03),
915 # adopted by the same states as before.
916 Rule Brazil 2006 only - Nov 5 0:00 1:00 -
917 Rule Brazil 2007 only - Feb 25 0:00 0 -
918 # Decree 6,212 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif> (2007-09-26),
919 # adopted by the same states as before.
920 Rule Brazil 2007 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 -
921 # From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10):
922 # According to this decree
923 # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm
924 # [t]he DST period in Brazil now on will be from the 3rd Oct Sunday to the
925 # 3rd Feb Sunday. There is an exception on the return date when this is
926 # the Carnival Sunday then the return date will be the next Sunday...
927 Rule Brazil 2008 2017 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 -
928 Rule Brazil 2008 2011 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
929 # Decree 7,584 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7584_20111013.jpg> (2011-10-13)
930 # added Bahia.
931 Rule Brazil 2012 only - Feb Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
932 # Decree 7,826 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7826_20121015.jpg> (2012-10-15)
933 # removed Bahia and added Tocantins.
934 # Decree 8,112 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto8112_20130930.JPG> (2013-09-30)
935 # removed Tocantins.
936 Rule Brazil 2013 2014 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
937 Rule Brazil 2015 only - Feb Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
938 Rule Brazil 2016 2019 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
939 # From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-18):
940 # According to many media sources, next year's DST start in Brazil will move to
941 # the first Sunday of November
942 # ... https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-delays-dst-2018.html
943 # From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-20):
944 # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/D9242.htm
945 # From Fbio Gomes (2018-10-04):
946 # The Brazilian president just announced a new change on this year DST.
947 # It was scheduled to start on November 4th and it was changed to November 18th.
948 # From Rodrigo Brning Wessler (2018-10-15):
949 # The Brazilian government just announced that the change in DST was
950 # canceled.... Maybe the president Michel Temer also woke up one hour
951 # earlier today. :)
952 Rule Brazil 2018 only - Nov Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
953 # The last ruleset listed above says that the following states observed DST:
954 # DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
955 #
956 # From Steffen Thorsen (2019-04-05):
957 # According to multiple sources the Brazilian president wants to get rid of DST.
958 # https://gmconline.com.br/noticias/politica/bolsonaro-horario-de-verao-deve-acabar-este-ano
959 # https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/04/05/governo-anuncia-fim-do-horario-de-verao.ghtml
960 # From Marcus Diniz (2019-04-25):
961 # Brazil no longer has DST changes - decree signed today
962 # https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/04/25/bolsonaro-assina-decreto-que-acaba-com-o-horario-de-verao.ghtml
963 # From Daniel Soares de Oliveira (2019-04-26):
964 # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2019-2022/2019/Decreto/D9772.htm
965
966 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
967 #
968 # Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE)
969 Zone America/Noronha -2:09:40 - LMT 1914
970 -2:00 Brazil %z 1990 Sep 17
971 -2:00 - %z 1999 Sep 30
972 -2:00 Brazil %z 2000 Oct 15
973 -2:00 - %z 2001 Sep 13
974 -2:00 Brazil %z 2002 Oct 1
975 -2:00 - %z
976 # Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement.
977 # These include Trindade and Martim Vaz (administratively part of ES),
978 # Rocas Atoll (RN), and the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (PE).
979 # Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01;
980 # it also included the Penedos.
981 #
982 # Amap (AP), east Par (PA)
983 # East Par includes Belm, Marab, Serra Norte, and So Flix do Xingu.
984 # The division between east and west Par is the river Xingu.
985 # In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess,
986 # the border with Amap) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu.
987 Zone America/Belem -3:13:56 - LMT 1914
988 -3:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
989 -3:00 - %z
990 #
991 # west Par (PA)
992 # West Par includes Altamira, bidos, Prainha, Oriximin, and Santarm.
993 Zone America/Santarem -3:38:48 - LMT 1914
994 -4:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
995 -4:00 - %z 2008 Jun 24 0:00
996 -3:00 - %z
997 #
998 # Maranho (MA), Piau (PI), Cear (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
999 # Paraba (PB)
1000 Zone America/Fortaleza -2:34:00 - LMT 1914
1001 -3:00 Brazil %z 1990 Sep 17
1002 -3:00 - %z 1999 Sep 30
1003 -3:00 Brazil %z 2000 Oct 22
1004 -3:00 - %z 2001 Sep 13
1005 -3:00 Brazil %z 2002 Oct 1
1006 -3:00 - %z
1007 #
1008 # Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
1009 Zone America/Recife -2:19:36 - LMT 1914
1010 -3:00 Brazil %z 1990 Sep 17
1011 -3:00 - %z 1999 Sep 30
1012 -3:00 Brazil %z 2000 Oct 15
1013 -3:00 - %z 2001 Sep 13
1014 -3:00 Brazil %z 2002 Oct 1
1015 -3:00 - %z
1016 #
1017 # Tocantins (TO)
1018 Zone America/Araguaina -3:12:48 - LMT 1914
1019 -3:00 Brazil %z 1990 Sep 17
1020 -3:00 - %z 1995 Sep 14
1021 -3:00 Brazil %z 2003 Sep 24
1022 -3:00 - %z 2012 Oct 21
1023 -3:00 Brazil %z 2013 Sep
1024 -3:00 - %z
1025 #
1026 # Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
1027 Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914
1028 -3:00 Brazil %z 1990 Sep 17
1029 -3:00 - %z 1995 Oct 13
1030 -3:00 Brazil %z 1996 Sep 4
1031 -3:00 - %z 1999 Sep 30
1032 -3:00 Brazil %z 2000 Oct 22
1033 -3:00 - %z 2001 Sep 13
1034 -3:00 Brazil %z 2002 Oct 1
1035 -3:00 - %z
1036 #
1037 # Bahia (BA)
1038 # There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead
1039 # of America/Salvador.
1040 Zone America/Bahia -2:34:04 - LMT 1914
1041 -3:00 Brazil %z 2003 Sep 24
1042 -3:00 - %z 2011 Oct 16
1043 -3:00 Brazil %z 2012 Oct 21
1044 -3:00 - %z
1045 #
1046 # Gois (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
1047 # Esprito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), So Paulo (SP), Paran (PR),
1048 # Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
1049 Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914
1050 -3:00 Brazil %z 1963 Oct 23 0:00
1051 -3:00 1:00 %z 1964
1052 -3:00 Brazil %z
1053 #
1054 # Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
1055 Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 - LMT 1914
1056 -4:00 Brazil %z
1057 #
1058 # Mato Grosso (MT)
1059 Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914
1060 -4:00 Brazil %z 2003 Sep 24
1061 -4:00 - %z 2004 Oct 1
1062 -4:00 Brazil %z
1063 #
1064 # Rondnia (RO)
1065 Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914
1066 -4:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
1067 -4:00 - %z
1068 #
1069 # Roraima (RR)
1070 Zone America/Boa_Vista -4:02:40 - LMT 1914
1071 -4:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
1072 -4:00 - %z 1999 Sep 30
1073 -4:00 Brazil %z 2000 Oct 15
1074 -4:00 - %z
1075 #
1076 # east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Juta, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto
1077 # The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides
1078 # east from west Amazonas.
1079 Zone America/Manaus -4:00:04 - LMT 1914
1080 -4:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
1081 -4:00 - %z 1993 Sep 28
1082 -4:00 Brazil %z 1994 Sep 22
1083 -4:00 - %z
1084 #
1085 # west Amazonas (AM): Atalaia do Norte, Boca do Maoco, Benjamin Constant,
1086 # Eirunep, Envira, Ipixuna
1087 Zone America/Eirunepe -4:39:28 - LMT 1914
1088 -5:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
1089 -5:00 - %z 1993 Sep 28
1090 -5:00 Brazil %z 1994 Sep 22
1091 -5:00 - %z 2008 Jun 24 0:00
1092 -4:00 - %z 2013 Nov 10
1093 -5:00 - %z
1094 #
1095 # Acre (AC)
1096 Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
1097 -5:00 Brazil %z 1988 Sep 12
1098 -5:00 - %z 2008 Jun 24 0:00
1099 -4:00 - %z 2013 Nov 10
1100 -5:00 - %z
1101
1102 # Chile
1103
1104 # From Paul Eggert (2022-03-15):
1105 # Shanks & Pottenger says America/Santiago introduced standard time in
1106 # 1890 and rounds its UT offset to 70W40; guess that in practice this
1107 # was the same offset as in 1916-1919. It also says Pacific/Easter
1108 # standardized on 109W22 in 1890; assume this didn't change the clocks.
1109 #
1110 # Dates for America/Santiago from 1910 to 2004 are primarily from
1111 # the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
1112 # [1] Chile Law
1113 # http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
1114 # This contains a copy of this official table:
1115 # Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
1116 # https://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1117 # [1] needs several corrections, though.
1118 #
1119 # The first set of corrections is from:
1120 # [2] History of the Official Time of Chile
1121 # http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html (retrieved 2012-03-06). See:
1122 # https://web.archive.org/web/20120306042032/http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html
1123 # This is an English translation of:
1124 # Historia de la hora oficial de Chile (retrieved 2012-10-24). See:
1125 # https://web.archive.org/web/20121024234627/http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm
1126 # A fancier Spanish version (requiring mouse-clicking) is at:
1127 # http://www.horaoficial.cl/historia_hora.php
1128 # Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
1129 #
1130 # - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
1131 # Boletn No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910). Go with [2].
1132 #
1133 # - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
1134 # 1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
1135 # Astronomical Observatory (OAN), then located in what is now
1136 # Quinta Normal in Santiago. Go with [1], as this matches the meridian
1137 # referred to by the relevant Chilean laws to this day.
1138 #
1139 # - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
1140 # Boletn No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23). Go with [2].
1141 #
1142 # - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
1143 # at midnight mainland time, the current common practice. However,
1144 # go with [2]'s specification of 23:00 for the 1947-05-21 transition.
1145 #
1146 # Another correction to [1] is from Jesper Nrgaard Welen, who
1147 # wrote (2006-10-08), "I think that there are some obvious mistakes in
1148 # the suggested link from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66
1149 # says that GMT-4 ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at
1150 # 1990-09-15 (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16
1151 # respectively), but anyhow it clears up some doubts too."
1152 #
1153 # Data for Pacific/Easter from 1910 through 1967 come from Shanks &
1154 # Pottenger. After that, for lack of better info assume
1155 # Pacific/Easter is always two hours behind America/Santiago;
1156 # this is known to work for DST transitions starting in 2008 and
1157 # may well be true for earlier transitions.
1158
1159 # From Tim Parenti (2022-07-06):
1160 # For a brief period of roughly six weeks in 1946, DST was only observed on an
1161 # emergency basis in specific regions of central Chile; namely, "the national
1162 # territory between the provinces of Coquimbo and Concepcin, inclusive".
1163 # This was enacted by Decree 3,891, dated 1946-07-13, and took effect
1164 # 1946-07-14 24:00, advancing these central regions to -03.
1165 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460715/#page/1
1166 # The decree contemplated "[t]hat this advancement of the Official Time, even
1167 # though it has been proposed for the cities of Santiago and Valparaso only,
1168 # must be agreed with that of other cities, due to the connection of various
1169 # activities that require it, such as, for example, the operation of rail
1170 # services". It was originally set to expire after 30 days but was extended
1171 # through 1946-08-31 by Decree 4,506, dated 1946-08-13.
1172 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460814/#page/1
1173 #
1174 # Law Number 8,522, promulgated 1946-08-27, reunified Chilean clocks at their
1175 # new "Summer Time" of -04, reckoned as that of "the meridian of the
1176 # Astronomical Observatory of Lo Espejo, advanced by 42 minutes and 45
1177 # seconds". Although this law specified the new Summer Time to start on 1
1178 # September each year, a special "transitional article" started it a few days
1179 # early, as soon as the law took effect. As the law was to take force "from
1180 # the date of its publication in the 'Diario Oficial', which happened the
1181 # following day, presume the change took place in Santiago and its environs
1182 # from 24:00 -03 to 23:00 -04 on Wednesday 1946-08-28. Although this was a
1183 # no-op for wall clocks in the north and south of the country, put their formal
1184 # start to DST an hour later when they reached 24:00 -04.
1185 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460828/#page/1
1186 # After a brief "Winter Time" stint at -05 beginning 1947-04-01, Law Number
1187 # 8,777, promulgated 1947-05-17, established year-round -04 "from 23:00 on the
1188 # second day after it is published in the 'Diario Oficial'." It was published
1189 # on Monday 1947-05-19 and so took effect from Wednesday 1947-05-21 23:00.
1190 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19470519/#page/1
1191
1192 # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
1193 # The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
1194 # of October.... The law is the same for March and October.
1195 # (1998-09-29):
1196 # Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
1197 # DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
1198 # (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).
1199
1200 # From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18):
1201 # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
1202 # on April 3, (one-time change).
1203
1204 # From Germn Poo-Caamao (2008-03-03):
1205 # Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks. This
1206 # is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
1207 # and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
1208 # The Supreme Decree is located at
1209 # http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
1210 #
1211 # From Jos Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
1212 # http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
1213
1214 # From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
1215 # Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
1216 # http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
1217 #
1218 # From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
1219 # Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
1220
1221 # From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
1222 # http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
1223 # In English:
1224 # Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
1225 # of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
1226 # August, not in October as they have since 1968.
1227
1228 # From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
1229 # As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
1230 # http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
1231 # The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
1232 # (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012....
1233 # Quote from the website communication:
1234 #
1235 # 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
1236 # a. Saturday April 28, 2012, clocks should go back 60 minutes; that is, at
1237 # 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
1238 # of the same day.
1239 # b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
1240 # at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
1241 # 01:00 on September 2.
1242
1243 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
1244 # According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
1245 # they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned. They
1246 # hope to save energy. The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
1247 # start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
1248 # http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
1249
1250 # From Jos Miguel Garrido (2014-02-19):
1251 # Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
1252 # dates to 2014.
1253 # DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
1254 # DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
1255 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22):
1256 # Decreto 307 of 2014 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1257 # promulgated 2014-01-30 and published 2014-02-19:
1258 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf#page=1
1259 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1059557
1260
1261 # From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
1262 # Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
1263 # permanently until March 25 of 2017
1264 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22):
1265 # Decreto 106 of 2015 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1266 # promulgated 2015-01-27 and published 2015-03-03:
1267 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/do-20150303.pdf#page=1
1268 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1075157
1269
1270 # From Juan Correa (2016-03-18):
1271 # The decree regarding DST has been published in today's Official Gazette...
1272 # It does consider the second Saturday of May and August as the dates
1273 # for the transition; and it lists DST dates until 2019, but I think
1274 # this scheme will stick.
1275 # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
1276 # The decree says transitions occur at 24:00; in practice this appears
1277 # to mean 24:00 mainland time, not 24:00 local time, so that Easter
1278 # Island is always two hours behind the mainland.
1279 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22):
1280 # Decreto 253 of 2016 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1281 # promulgated 2016-03-16 and published 2016-03-18.
1282 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2016/03/18/do-20160318.pdf#page=1
1283 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1088502
1284
1285 # From Juan Correa (2016-12-04):
1286 # Magallanes region ... will keep DST (UTC -3) all year round....
1287 # 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
1288 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22), via Deborah Goldsmith (2017-01-19):
1289 # Decreto 1820 of 2016 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1290 # promulgated 2016-12-02 and published 2017-01-17:
1291 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2017/01/17/41660/01/1169626.pdf
1292 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Navegar?idNorma=1099217
1293 # Model this as a change to standard offset effective 2016-12-04.
1294
1295 # From Juan Correa (2018-08-13):
1296 # As of moments ago, the Ministry of Energy in Chile has announced the new
1297 # schema for DST. ... Announcement in video (in Spanish):
1298 # https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029000399129374720
1299 # From Yonathan Dossow (2018-08-13):
1300 # The video says "first Saturday of September", we all know it means Sunday at
1301 # midnight.
1302 # From Tim Parenti (2018-08-13):
1303 # Translating the captions on the video at 0:44-0:55, "We want to announce as
1304 # Government that from 2019, Winter Time will be increased to 5 months, between
1305 # the first Saturday of April and the first Saturday of September."
1306 # At 2:08-2:20, "The Magallanes region will maintain its current time, as
1307 # decided by the citizens during 2017, but our Government will promote a
1308 # regional dialogue table to gather their opinion on this matter."
1309 # https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029009354001973248
1310 # "We will keep the new time policy unchanged for at least the next 4 years."
1311 # So we extend the new rules on Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time indefinitely.
1312 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22), via Juan Correa (2019-02-04):
1313 # Decreto 1286 of 2018 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1314 # promulgated 2018-09-21 and published 2018-11-23:
1315 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2018/11/23/42212/01/1498738.pdf
1316 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Navegar?idNorma=1125760
1317
1318 # From Juan Correa (2022-04-02):
1319 # I found there was a decree published last Thursday that will keep
1320 # Magallanes region to UTC -3 "indefinitely".
1321 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22):
1322 # Decreto 143 of 2022 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1323 # promulgated 2022-03-29 and published 2022-03-31:
1324 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/03/31/43217-B/01/2108910.pdf
1325 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Navegar?idNorma=1174342
1326
1327 # From Juan Correa (2022-08-09):
1328 # the Internal Affairs Ministry (Ministerio del Interior) informed DST
1329 # for America/Santiago will start on midnight of September 11th;
1330 # and will end on April 1st, 2023. Magallanes region (America/Punta_Arenas)
1331 # will keep UTC -3 "indefinitely"... This is because on September 4th
1332 # we will have a voting whether to approve a new Constitution.
1333 #
1334 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22), via Eduardo Romero Urra (2022-08-17):
1335 # Decreto 224 of 2022 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1336 # promulgated 2022-07-14 and published 2022-08-13:
1337 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/08/13/43327/01/2172567.pdf
1338 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1179983
1339 #
1340 # From Paul Eggert (2022-08-17):
1341 # Although the presidential decree stops at fall 2026, assume that
1342 # similar DST rules will continue thereafter.
1343
1344 # From Paul Eggert (2025-01-15):
1345 # Diario Regional Aysn's Sebastin Martel reports that 94% of Aysn
1346 # citizens polled in November favored changing the rules from
1347 # -04/-03-with-DST to -03 all year...
1348 # https://www.diarioregionalaysen.cl/noticia/actualidad/2024/12/presentan-decision-que-gano-la-votacion-sobre-el-cambio-del-huso-horario-en-aysen
1349 #
1350 # From Yonathan Dossow (2025-03-20):
1351 # [T]oday we have more confirmation of the change. [Aysn] region will keep
1352 # UTC-3 all year...
1353 # https://www.cnnchile.com/pais/region-de-aysen-mantendra-horario-de-verano-todo-el-ano_20250320/
1354 # https://www.latercera.com/nacional/noticia/tras-consulta-ciudadana-region-de-aysen-mantendra-el-horario-de-verano-durante-todo-el-ano/
1355 # https://x.com/min_interior/status/1902692504270672098
1356 #
1357 # From Tim Parenti (2025-03-22), via Eduardo Romero Urra (2025-03-20):
1358 # Decreto 93 of 2025 of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security,
1359 # promulgated 2025-03-11 and published 2025-03-20:
1360 # https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2025/03/20/44104/01/2624263.pdf
1361 # https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Navegar?idNorma=1211955
1362 # Model this as a change to standard offset effective 2025-03-20.
1363
1364 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1365 Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 -
1366 Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1367 Rule Chile 1968 only - Nov 3 4:00u 1:00 -
1368 Rule Chile 1969 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
1369 Rule Chile 1969 only - Nov 23 4:00u 1:00 -
1370 Rule Chile 1970 only - Mar 29 3:00u 0 -
1371 Rule Chile 1971 only - Mar 14 3:00u 0 -
1372 Rule Chile 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1373 Rule Chile 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1374 Rule Chile 1973 only - Sep 30 4:00u 1:00 -
1375 Rule Chile 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1376 Rule Chile 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 -
1377 Rule Chile 1988 1990 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1378 Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1379 Rule Chile 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 -
1380 Rule Chile 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1381 Rule Chile 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1382 Rule Chile 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
1383 Rule Chile 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1384 Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 -
1385 Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 -
1386 Rule Chile 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1387 Rule Chile 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1388 # N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
1389 # which is used below in specifying the transition.
1390 Rule Chile 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
1391 Rule Chile 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1392 Rule Chile 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 -
1393 Rule Chile 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
1394 Rule Chile 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 -
1395 Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
1396 Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 -
1397 Rule Chile 2016 2018 - May Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
1398 Rule Chile 2016 2018 - Aug Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1399 Rule Chile 2019 max - Apr Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
1400 Rule Chile 2019 2021 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 -
1401 Rule Chile 2022 only - Sep Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 -
1402 Rule Chile 2023 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 -
1403 # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
1404 # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these.
1405 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1406 Zone America/Santiago -4:42:45 - LMT 1890
1407 -4:42:45 - SMT 1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
1408 -5:00 - %z 1916 Jul 1
1409 -4:42:45 - SMT 1918 Sep 10
1410 -4:00 - %z 1919 Jul 1
1411 -4:42:45 - SMT 1927 Sep 1
1412 -5:00 Chile %z 1932 Sep 1
1413 -4:00 - %z 1942 Jun 1
1414 -5:00 - %z 1942 Aug 1
1415 -4:00 - %z 1946 Jul 14 24:00
1416 -4:00 1:00 %z 1946 Aug 28 24:00 # central CL
1417 -5:00 1:00 %z 1947 Mar 31 24:00
1418 -5:00 - %z 1947 May 21 23:00
1419 -4:00 Chile %z
1420 Zone America/Coyhaique -4:48:16 - LMT 1890
1421 -4:42:45 - SMT 1910 Jan 10
1422 -5:00 - %z 1916 Jul 1
1423 -4:42:45 - SMT 1918 Sep 10
1424 -4:00 - %z 1919 Jul 1
1425 -4:42:45 - SMT 1927 Sep 1
1426 -5:00 Chile %z 1932 Sep 1
1427 -4:00 - %z 1942 Jun 1
1428 -5:00 - %z 1942 Aug 1
1429 -4:00 - %z 1946 Aug 28 24:00
1430 -5:00 1:00 %z 1947 Mar 31 24:00
1431 -5:00 - %z 1947 May 21 23:00
1432 -4:00 Chile %z 2025 Mar 20
1433 -3:00 - %z
1434 Zone America/Punta_Arenas -4:43:40 - LMT 1890
1435 -4:42:45 - SMT 1910 Jan 10
1436 -5:00 - %z 1916 Jul 1
1437 -4:42:45 - SMT 1918 Sep 10
1438 -4:00 - %z 1919 Jul 1
1439 -4:42:45 - SMT 1927 Sep 1
1440 -5:00 Chile %z 1932 Sep 1
1441 -4:00 - %z 1942 Jun 1
1442 -5:00 - %z 1942 Aug 1
1443 -4:00 - %z 1946 Aug 28 24:00
1444 -5:00 1:00 %z 1947 Mar 31 24:00
1445 -5:00 - %z 1947 May 21 23:00
1446 -4:00 Chile %z 2016 Dec 4
1447 -3:00 - %z
1448 Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890
1449 -7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time
1450 -7:00 Chile %z 1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
1451 -6:00 Chile %z
1452 #
1453 # Salas y Gmez Island is uninhabited.
1454 # Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernndez Is, Desventuradas Is,
1455 # and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
1456
1457 # Antarctic base using South American rules
1458 # (See the file 'antarctica' for more.)
1459 #
1460 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
1461 #
1462 # From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
1463 # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
1464 # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
1465 # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
1466 # Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
1467 # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
1468 #
1469 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1470 Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - -00 1965
1471 -4:00 Arg %z 1969 Oct 5
1472 -3:00 Arg %z 1982 May
1473 -4:00 Chile %z 2016 Dec 4
1474 -3:00 - %z
1475
1476 # Colombia
1477
1478 # Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogot time in 1899. He writes,
1479 # "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
1480
1481 # From Alois Treindl (2022-11-10):
1482 # End of time change in Colombia 1993 ... should be 6 February 24h ...
1483 # DECRETO 267 DE 1993
1484 # https://www.suin-juriscol.gov.co/viewDocument.asp?ruta=Decretos/1061335
1485
1486 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1487 Rule CO 1992 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 -
1488 Rule CO 1993 only - Feb 6 24:00 0 -
1489 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1490 #STDOFF -4:56:16.4
1491 Zone America/Bogota -4:56:16 - LMT 1884 Mar 13
1492 -4:56:16 - BMT 1914 Nov 23 # Bogot Mean Time
1493 -5:00 CO %z
1494 # Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
1495 # no information; probably like America/Bogota
1496
1497 # Curaao
1498 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1499 Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
1500 -4:30 - -0430 1965
1501 -4:00 - AST
1502
1503 Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk
1504 Link America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes
1505 # Ecuador
1506 #
1507 # Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
1508 #
1509 # From Alois Treindl (2016-12-15):
1510 # https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/hora-sixto-1993.html
1511 # ... Whether the law applied also to Galpagos, I do not know.
1512 # From Paul Eggert (2016-12-15):
1513 # https://www.elcomercio.com/afull/modificacion-husohorario-ecuador-presidentes-decreto.html
1514 # This says President Sixto Durn Balln signed decree No. 285, which
1515 # established DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05; it does not give transition
1516 # times. The people called it "hora de Sixto" ("Sixto hour"). The change did
1517 # not go over well; a popular song "Qu hora es" by Jaime Guevara had lyrics
1518 # that included "Amaneca en mitad de la noche, los guaguas iban a clase sin
1519 # sol" ("It was dawning in the middle of the night, the buses went to class
1520 # without sun"). Although Balln's campaign slogan was "Ni un paso atrs"
1521 # (Not one step back), the clocks went back in 1993 and the experiment was not
1522 # repeated. For now, assume transitions were at 00:00 local time country-wide.
1523 #
1524 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1525 Rule Ecuador 1992 only - Nov 28 0:00 1:00 -
1526 Rule Ecuador 1993 only - Feb 5 0:00 0 -
1527 #
1528 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1529 Zone America/Guayaquil -5:19:20 - LMT 1890
1530 -5:14:00 - QMT 1931 # Quito Mean Time
1531 -5:00 Ecuador %z
1532 Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
1533 -5:00 - %z 1986
1534 -6:00 Ecuador %z
1535
1536 # Falklands
1537
1538 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1539 # Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except
1540 # the IATA gives 1996-09-08. Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1541
1542 # From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22)
1543 # via Jesper Nrgaard:
1544 # ... the clocks revert back to Local Mean Time at 2 am on Sunday 15
1545 # April 2001 and advance one hour to summer time at 2 am on Sunday 2
1546 # September. It is anticipated that the clocks will revert back at 2
1547 # am on Sunday 21 April 2002 and advance to summer time at 2 am on
1548 # Sunday 1 September.
1549
1550 # From Rives McDow (2001-02-13):
1551 #
1552 # I have communicated several times with people there, and the last
1553 # time I had communications that was helpful was in 1998. Here is
1554 # what was said then:
1555 #
1556 # "The general rule was that Stanley used daylight saving and the Camp
1557 # did not. However for various reasons many people in the Camp have
1558 # started to use daylight saving (known locally as 'Stanley Time')
1559 # There is no rule as to who uses daylight saving - it is a matter of
1560 # personal choice and so it is impossible to draw a map showing who
1561 # uses it and who does not. Any list would be out of date as soon as
1562 # it was produced. This year daylight saving ended on April 18/19th
1563 # and started again on September 12/13th. I do not know what the rule
1564 # is, but can find out if you like. We do not change at the same time
1565 # as UK or Chile."
1566 #
1567 # I did have in my notes that the rule was "Second Saturday in Sep at
1568 # 0:00 until third Saturday in Apr at 0:00". I think that this does
1569 # not agree in some cases with Shanks; is this true?
1570 #
1571 # Also, there is no mention in the list that some areas in the
1572 # Falklands do not use DST. I have found in my communications there
1573 # that these areas are on the western half of East Falkland and all of
1574 # West Falkland. Stanley is the only place that consistently observes
1575 # DST. Again, as in other places in the world, the farmers don't like
1576 # it. West Falkland is almost entirely sheep farmers.
1577 #
1578 # I know one lady there that keeps a list of which farm keeps DST and
1579 # which doesn't each year. She runs a shop in Stanley, and says that
1580 # the list changes each year. She uses it to communicate to her
1581 # customers, catching them when they are home for lunch or dinner.
1582
1583 # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1584 # For now, we'll just record the time in Stanley, since we have no
1585 # better info.
1586
1587 # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-04-01):
1588 # The Falkland Islands will not turn back clocks this winter, but stay on
1589 # daylight saving time.
1590 #
1591 # One source:
1592 # http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=5914&source=3
1593 #
1594 # We have gotten this confirmed by a clerk of the legislative assembly:
1595 # Normally the clocks revert to Local Mean Time (UTC/GMT -4 hours) on the
1596 # third Sunday of April at 0200hrs and advance to Summer Time (UTC/GMT -3
1597 # hours) on the first Sunday of September at 0200hrs.
1598 #
1599 # IMPORTANT NOTE: During 2011, on a trial basis, the Falkland Islands
1600 # will not revert to local mean time, but clocks will remain on Summer
1601 # time (UTC/GMT - 3 hours) throughout the whole of 2011. Any long term
1602 # change to local time following the trial period will be notified.
1603 #
1604 # From Andrew Newman (2012-02-24)
1605 # A letter from Justin McPhee, Chief Executive,
1606 # Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands (dated 2012-02-22)
1607 # states...
1608 # The current Atlantic/Stanley entry under South America expects the
1609 # clocks to go back to standard Falklands Time (FKT) on the 15th April.
1610 # The database entry states that in 2011 Stanley was staying on fixed
1611 # summer time on a trial basis only. FIG need to contact IANA and/or
1612 # the maintainers of the database to inform them we're adopting
1613 # the same policy this year and suggest recommendations for future years.
1614 #
1615 # For now we will assume permanent -03 for the Falklands
1616 # until advised differently (to apply for 2012 and beyond, after the 2011
1617 # experiment was apparently successful.)
1618 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1619 Rule Falk 1937 1938 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 -
1620 Rule Falk 1938 1942 - Mar Sun>=19 0:00 0 -
1621 Rule Falk 1939 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 -
1622 Rule Falk 1940 1942 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 -
1623 Rule Falk 1943 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
1624 Rule Falk 1983 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 -
1625 Rule Falk 1984 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 0 -
1626 Rule Falk 1984 only - Sep 16 0:00 1:00 -
1627 Rule Falk 1985 2000 - Sep Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 -
1628 Rule Falk 1986 2000 - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 0 -
1629 Rule Falk 2001 2010 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
1630 Rule Falk 2001 2010 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 -
1631 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1632 Zone Atlantic/Stanley -3:51:24 - LMT 1890
1633 -3:51:24 - SMT 1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
1634 -4:00 Falk %z 1983 May
1635 -3:00 Falk %z 1985 Sep 15
1636 -4:00 Falk %z 2010 Sep 5 2:00
1637 -3:00 - %z
1638
1639 # French Guiana
1640 # For the 1911/1912 establishment of standard time in French possessions, see:
1641 # Socit Franaise de Physique, Recueil de constantes physiques (1913),
1642 # page 752, 18b.
1643 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1644 Zone America/Cayenne -3:29:20 - LMT 1911 Jul 1
1645 -4:00 - %z 1967 Oct
1646 -3:00 - %z
1647
1648 # Guyana
1649
1650 # From P Chan (2020-11-27):
1651 # https://books.google.com/books?id=5-5CAQAAMAAJ&pg=SA1-PA547
1652 # The Official Gazette of British Guiana. (New Series.) Vol. XL. July to
1653 # December, 1915, p 1547, lists as several notes:
1654 # "Local Mean Time 3 hours 52 mins. 39 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time
1655 # (Georgetown.) From 1st August, 1911, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 4
1656 # hours slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on 1st July,
1657 # 1911. From 1st March, 1915, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 3 hours 45
1658 # mins. 0 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on
1659 # 23rd January, 1915."
1660 #
1661 # https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/10923-act_no._27_of_1975_-_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1975.pdf
1662 # Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1975 (Act No. 27 of 1975)
1663 # [dated 1975-07-31]
1664 # "This Act...shall come into operation on 1st August, 1975."
1665 # "...where any expression of time occurs...the time referred to shall signify
1666 # the standard time of Guyana which shall be three hours behind Greenwich Mean
1667 # Time."
1668 #
1669 # Circular No. 10/1992 dated 1992-03-20
1670 # https://dps.gov.gy/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1992-03-20-Circular-010.pdf
1671 # "...cabinet has decided that with effect from Sunday 29th March, 1992, Guyana
1672 # Standard Time would be re-established at 01:00 hours by adjusting the hands
1673 # of the clock back to 24:00 hours."
1674 # Legislated in the Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1992
1675 # (Act No. 6 of 1992) [passed 1992-03-27, published 1992-04-18]
1676 # https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/5885-6_of_1992_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1992.pdf
1677
1678 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1679 Zone America/Guyana -3:52:39 - LMT 1911 Aug 1 # Georgetown
1680 -4:00 - %z 1915 Mar 1
1681 -3:45 - %z 1975 Aug 1
1682 -3:00 - %z 1992 Mar 29 1:00
1683 -4:00 - %z
1684
1685 # Paraguay
1686 #
1687 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1688 # Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are 01:00 -> 02:00,
1689 # and autumn transitions are 00:00 -> 23:00. Go with pre-1999
1690 # editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00.
1691 #
1692 # From Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (2013-09-20):
1693 # No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
1694 # adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
1695 #
1696 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1697 Rule Para 1975 1988 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 -
1698 Rule Para 1975 1978 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
1699 Rule Para 1979 1991 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1700 Rule Para 1989 only - Oct 22 0:00 1:00 -
1701 Rule Para 1990 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 -
1702 Rule Para 1991 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 -
1703 Rule Para 1992 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
1704 Rule Para 1992 only - Oct 5 0:00 1:00 -
1705 Rule Para 1993 only - Mar 31 0:00 0 -
1706 Rule Para 1993 1995 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 -
1707 Rule Para 1994 1995 - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 -
1708 Rule Para 1996 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
1709 # IATA SSIM (2000-02) says 1999-10-10; ignore this for now.
1710 # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-02):
1711 # I have three independent reports that Paraguay changed to DST this Sunday
1712 # (10-01).
1713 #
1714 # Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
1715 # Noticias, a daily paper in Asuncin, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
1716 # http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
1717 # Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
1718 # fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power.... The time change
1719 # system has been operating for several years. Formerly there was a separate
1720 # decree each year; the new law has the same effect, but permanently. Every
1721 # year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the
1722 # clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March.
1723 #
1724 Rule Para 1996 2001 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
1725 # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1726 Rule Para 1997 only - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 -
1727 # Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but
1728 # (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
1729 Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
1730 # From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
1731 # A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
1732 # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
1733 # April.
1734 Rule Para 2002 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
1735 Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
1736 #
1737 # From Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2005-01-02):
1738 # There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made
1739 # a timezone rule change in autumn 2004.
1740 # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
1741 # Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
1742 # From Carlos Ral Perasso via Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
1743 # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
1744 Rule Para 2004 2009 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 -
1745 Rule Para 2005 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
1746 # From Carlos Ral Perasso (2010-02-18):
1747 # By decree number 3958 issued yesterday
1748 # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decreto3958.pdf
1749 # Paraguay changes its DST schedule, postponing the March rule to April and
1750 # modifying the October date. The decree reads:
1751 # ...
1752 # Art. 1. It is hereby established that from the second Sunday of the month of
1753 # April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
1754 # and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
1755 # forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
1756 # ...
1757 Rule Para 2010 2024 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
1758 Rule Para 2010 2012 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
1759 #
1760 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
1761 # Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
1762 # http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
1763 #
1764 # From Carlos Ral Perasso (2013-03-15):
1765 # The change in Paraguay is now final. Decree number 10780
1766 # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
1767 # From Carlos Ral Perasso (2014-02-28):
1768 # Decree 1264 can be found at:
1769 # http://www.presidencia.gov.py/archivos/documentos/DECRETO1264_ey9r8zai.pdf
1770 #
1771 # From Paul Eggert (2023-07-26):
1772 # Transition dates are now set by Law No. 7115, not by presidential decree.
1773 # https://www.abc.com.py/politica/2023/07/12/promulgacion-el-cambio-de-hora-sera-por-ley/
1774 # From Carlos Ral Perasso (2023-07-27):
1775 # http://silpy.congreso.gov.py/descarga/ley-144138
1776 Rule Para 2013 2024 - Mar Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
1777 #
1778 # From Heitor David Pinto (2024-09-24):
1779 # Today the Congress of Paraguay passed a bill to observe UTC-3 permanently....
1780 # The text of the bill says that it would enter into force on the first
1781 # Sunday in October 2024, the same date currently scheduled to start DST....
1782 # https://silpy.congreso.gov.py/web/expediente/132531
1783 # (2024-10-14):
1784 # The president approved the law on 11 October 2024,
1785 # and it was officially published on 14 October 2024.
1786 # https://www.gacetaoficial.gov.py/index/detalle_publicacion/89723
1787 # The text of the law says that it enters into force on the first
1788 # Sunday in October 2024 (6 October 2024). But the constitution
1789 # prohibits retroactive effect, and the civil code says that laws
1790 # enter into force on the day after their publication or on the day
1791 # that they specify, and it also says that they don't have retroactive
1792 # effect. So I think that the time change on 6 October 2024 should
1793 # still be considered as DST according to the previous law, and
1794 # permanently UTC-3 from 15 October 2024 according to the new law....
1795 # https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Paraguay_2011
1796 # https://www.oas.org/dil/esp/codigo_civil_paraguay.pdf
1797
1798 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1799 Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890
1800 -3:50:40 - AMT 1931 Oct 10 # Asuncin Mean Time
1801 -4:00 - %z 1972 Oct
1802 -3:00 - %z 1974 Apr
1803 -4:00 Para %z 2024 Oct 15
1804 -3:00 - %z
1805
1806 # Peru
1807 #
1808 # From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26)
1809 # <news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113 (a] news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>:
1810 # When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over
1811 # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon.
1812 #
1813 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1814 # Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition. Assume 1986 was like 1987.
1815
1816 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1817 Rule Peru 1938 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 -
1818 Rule Peru 1938 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1819 Rule Peru 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 -
1820 Rule Peru 1939 1940 - Mar Sun>=24 0:00 0 -
1821 Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 -
1822 Rule Peru 1986 1987 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1823 Rule Peru 1990 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 -
1824 Rule Peru 1990 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1825 # IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1826 Rule Peru 1994 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 -
1827 Rule Peru 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1828 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1829 Zone America/Lima -5:08:12 - LMT 1890
1830 -5:08:36 - LMT 1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time?
1831 -5:00 Peru %z
1832
1833 # South Georgia
1834 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1835 Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 - LMT 1890 # Grytviken
1836 -2:00 - %z
1837
1838 # South Sandwich Is
1839 # uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered
1840
1841 # Suriname
1842 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1843 Zone America/Paramaribo -3:40:40 - LMT 1911
1844 -3:40:52 - PMT 1935 # Paramaribo Mean Time
1845 -3:40:36 - PMT 1945 Oct # The capital moved?
1846 -3:30 - %z 1984 Oct
1847 -3:00 - %z
1848
1849 # Trinidad and Tobago
1850 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1851 Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
1852 -4:00 - AST
1853
1854 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot
1855 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy
1856 # Uruguay
1857 # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
1858 # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
1859 #
1860 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-20), per Jeremie Bonjour (2018-01-31) and Michael
1861 # Deckers (2018-02-20):
1862 # ... At least they kept good records...
1863 #
1864 # http://www.armada.mil.uy/ContenidosPDFs/sohma/web/almanaque/almanaque_2018.pdf#page=36
1865 # Page 36 of Almanaque 2018, published by the Oceanography, Hydrography, and
1866 # Meteorology Service of the Uruguayan Navy, seems to give many transitions
1867 # with greater clarity than we've had before. It directly references many laws
1868 # and decrees which are, in turn, referenced below. They can be viewed in the
1869 # public archives of the Diario Oficial (in Spanish) at
1870 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/
1871 #
1872 # Ley No. 3920 of 1908-06-10 placed the determination of legal time under the
1873 # auspices of the National Institute for the Prediction of Time. It is unclear
1874 # exactly what offset was used during this period, though Ley No. 7200 of
1875 # 1920-04-23 used the Observatory of the National Meteorological Institute in
1876 # Montevideo (34 54' 33" S, 56 12' 45" W) as its reference meridian,
1877 # retarding legal time by 15 minutes 9 seconds from 1920-04-30 24:00,
1878 # resulting in UT-04. Assume the corresponding LMT of UT-03:44:51 (given on
1879 # page 725 of the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress,
1880 # 1915-1916) was in use, and merely became official from 1908-06-10.
1881 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1908/06/18/12
1882 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1920/04/27/9
1883 #
1884 # Ley No. 7594 of 1923-06-28 specified legal time as Observatory time advanced
1885 # by 44 minutes 51 seconds (UT-03) "from 30 September to 31 March", and by 14
1886 # minutes 51 seconds (UT-03:30) "the rest of the year"; a message from the
1887 # National Council of Administration the same day, published directly below the
1888 # law in the Diario Oficial, specified the first transition to be 1923-09-30
1889 # 24:00. This effectively established standard time at UT-03:30 with 30
1890 # minutes DST. Assume transitions at 24:00 on the specified days until Ley No.
1891 # 7919 of 1926-03-05 ended this arrangement, repealing all "laws and other
1892 # provisions which oppose" it, resulting in year-round UT-03:30; a Resolucin
1893 # of 1926-03-11 puts the final transition at 1926-03-31 24:00, the same as it
1894 # would have been under the previous law.
1895 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1923/07/02/2
1896 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/10/2
1897 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/18/2
1898 #
1899 # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1900 Rule Uruguay 1923 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0:30 -
1901 Rule Uruguay 1924 1926 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
1902 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1903 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1933/10/27/6
1904 #
1905 # It appears Ley No. 9122 of 1933 was never published as such in the Diario
1906 # Oficial, but instead appeared as Document 26 in the Diario on Friday
1907 # 1933-10-27 as a decree made Monday 1933-10-23 and filed under the Ministry of
1908 # National Defense. It reinstituted a DST of 30 minutes (to UT-03) "from the
1909 # last Sunday of October...until the last Saturday of March." In accordance
1910 # with this provision, the first transition was explicitly specified in Article
1911 # 2 of the decree as Saturday 1933-10-28 at 24:00; that is, Sunday 1933-10-29
1912 # at 00:00. Assume transitions at 00:00 Sunday throughout.
1913 #
1914 # Departing from the matter-of-fact nature of previous timekeeping laws, the
1915 # 1933 decree "consider[s] the advantages of...the advance of legal time":
1916 #
1917 # "Whereas: The measure adopted by almost all nations at the time of the last
1918 # World War still persists in North America and Europe, precisely because of
1919 # the economic, hygienic, and social advantages derived from such an
1920 # emergency measure...
1921 #
1922 # Whereas: The advance of the legal time during the summer seasons, by
1923 # displacing social activity near sunrise, favors the citizen populations
1924 # and especially the society that creates and works..."
1925 #
1926 # It further specified that "necessary measures" be taken to ensure that
1927 # "public spectacles finish, in general, before [01:00]."
1928 Rule Uruguay 1933 1938 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 -
1929 Rule Uruguay 1934 1941 - Mar lastSat 24:00 0 -
1930 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1931 # Most of the Rules below, and their contemporaneous Zone lines, have been
1932 # updated simply to match the Almanaque 2018. Although the document does not
1933 # list exact transition times, midnight transitions were already present in our
1934 # data here for all transitions through 2004-09, and this is both consistent
1935 # with prior transitions and verified in several decrees marked below between
1936 # 1939-09 and 2004-09, wherein the relevant text was typically of the form:
1937 #
1938 # "From 0 hours on [date], the legal time of the entire Republic will be...
1939 #
1940 # In accordance with [the preceding], on [previous date] at 24 hours, all
1941 # clocks throughout the Republic will be [advanced/retarded] by..."
1942 #
1943 # It is possible that there is greater specificity to be found for the Rules
1944 # below, but it is buried in no fewer than 40 different decrees individually
1945 # referenced by the Almanaque for the period from 1939-09 to 2014-09.
1946 # Four-fifths of these were promulgated less than two weeks before taking
1947 # effect; more than half within a week and none more than 5 weeks. Only the
1948 # handful with comments below have been checked with any thoroughness.
1949 Rule Uruguay 1939 only - Oct 1 0:00 0:30 -
1950 Rule Uruguay 1940 only - Oct 27 0:00 0:30 -
1951 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1952 # Decreto 1145 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1941-07-26, specified
1953 # UT-03 from Friday 1941-08-01 00:00, citing an "urgent...need to save fuel".
1954 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1941/08/04/1
1955 Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0:30 -
1956 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1957 # Decreto 1866 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1942-12-09, specified
1958 # further advancement (to UT-02:30) from Sunday 1942-12-13 24:00. Since clocks
1959 # never went back to UT-03:30 thereafter, this is modeled as advancing standard
1960 # time by 30 minutes to UT-03, while retaining 30 minutes of DST.
1961 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1942/12/16/3
1962 Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Dec 14 0:00 0:30 -
1963 Rule Uruguay 1943 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 -
1964 Rule Uruguay 1959 only - May 24 0:00 0:30 -
1965 Rule Uruguay 1959 only - Nov 15 0:00 0 -
1966 Rule Uruguay 1960 only - Jan 17 0:00 1:00 -
1967 Rule Uruguay 1960 only - Mar 6 0:00 0 -
1968 Rule Uruguay 1965 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 -
1969 Rule Uruguay 1965 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 -
1970 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1971 # Decreto 321/968 of 1968-05-25, citing emergency drought measures decreed the
1972 # day before, brought clocks forward 30 minutes from Monday 1968-05-27 00:00.
1973 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1968/05/30/5
1974 Rule Uruguay 1968 only - May 27 0:00 0:30 -
1975 Rule Uruguay 1968 only - Dec 1 0:00 0 -
1976 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1977 # Decreto 188/970 of 1970-04-23 instituted restrictions on electricity
1978 # consumption "as a consequence of the current rainfall regime in the country".
1979 # Articles 13 and 14 advanced clocks by an hour from Saturday 1970-04-25 00:00.
1980 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1970/04/29/4
1981 Rule Uruguay 1970 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 -
1982 Rule Uruguay 1970 only - Jun 14 0:00 0 -
1983 Rule Uruguay 1972 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 -
1984 Rule Uruguay 1972 only - Jul 16 0:00 0 -
1985 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1986 # Decreto 29/974 of 1974-01-11, citing "the international rise in the price of
1987 # oil", advanced clocks by 90 minutes (to UT-01:30). Decreto 163/974 of
1988 # 1974-03-04 returned 60 of those minutes (to UT-02:30), and the remaining 30
1989 # minutes followed in Decreto 679/974 of 1974-08-29.
1990 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/01/22/11
1991 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/03/14/3
1992 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/09/04/6
1993 Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Jan 13 0:00 1:30 -
1994 Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Mar 10 0:00 0:30 -
1995 Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
1996 Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Dec 22 0:00 1:00 -
1997 Rule Uruguay 1975 only - Mar 30 0:00 0 -
1998 Rule Uruguay 1976 only - Dec 19 0:00 1:00 -
1999 Rule Uruguay 1977 only - Mar 6 0:00 0 -
2000 Rule Uruguay 1977 only - Dec 4 0:00 1:00 -
2001 Rule Uruguay 1978 1979 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
2002 Rule Uruguay 1978 only - Dec 17 0:00 1:00 -
2003 Rule Uruguay 1979 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 -
2004 Rule Uruguay 1980 only - Mar 16 0:00 0 -
2005 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
2006 # Decreto 725/987 of 1987-12-04 cited "better use of national tourist
2007 # attractions" to advance clocks one hour from Monday 1987-12-14 00:00.
2008 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1988/01/25/1
2009 Rule Uruguay 1987 only - Dec 14 0:00 1:00 -
2010 Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 -
2011 Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Dec 11 0:00 1:00 -
2012 Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Mar 5 0:00 0 -
2013 Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Oct 29 0:00 1:00 -
2014 Rule Uruguay 1990 only - Feb 25 0:00 0 -
2015 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Paul Eggert (1999-11-04):
2016 # IATA agrees as below for 1990-10 through 1993-02. Per Almanaque 2018, the
2017 # 1992/1993 season appears to be the first in over half a century where DST
2018 # both began and ended pursuant to the same decree.
2019 Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 -
2020 Rule Uruguay 1991 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
2021 Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 -
2022 Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 -
2023 # From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
2024 # The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
2025 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
2026 # Decreto 328/004 of 2004-09-15.
2027 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2004/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
2028 Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep 19 0:00 1:00 -
2029 # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
2030 # Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to
2031 # save energy ... it was postponed two weeks....
2032 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
2033 # This 2005 postponement is not in Almanaque 2018. Go with the contemporaneous
2034 # reporting, which is confirmed by Decreto 107/005 of 2005-03-10 amending
2035 # Decreto 328/004:
2036 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/03/15/documentos.pdf#page=1
2037 # The original decree specified a transition of 2005-03-12 24:00, but the new
2038 # one specified 2005-03-27 02:00.
2039 Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 -
2040 # From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27):
2041 # ...from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at 02:00 local time,
2042 # official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
2043 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
2044 # Decreto 318/005 of 2005-09-19.
2045 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
2046 Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 -
2047 Rule Uruguay 2006 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 -
2048 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Jesper Nrgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
2049 # Decreto 311/006 of 2006-09-04 established regular DST from the first Sunday
2050 # of October at 02:00 through the second Sunday of March at 02:00. Almanaque
2051 # 2018 appears to have a few typoed dates through this period; ignore them.
2052 # http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2006/09/08/documentos.pdf#page=1
2053 Rule Uruguay 2006 2014 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 -
2054 # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
2055 # ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
2056 # http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
2057 # http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
2058 # From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
2059 # Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
2060 # instead of out to dinner.
2061 # From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
2062 # http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
2063 # From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
2064 # Decreto 178/015 of 2015-06-29; repeals Decreto 311/006.
2065
2066 # This Zone can be simplified once we assume zic %z.
2067 Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:51 - LMT 1908 Jun 10
2068 -3:44:51 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT
2069 -4:00 - %z 1923 Oct 1
2070 -3:30 Uruguay %z 1942 Dec 14
2071 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1960
2072 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1968
2073 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1970
2074 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1974
2075 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1974 Mar 10
2076 -3:00 Uruguay %z 1974 Dec 22
2077 -3:00 Uruguay %z
2078
2079 # Venezuela
2080 #
2081 # From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
2082 # For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
2083 # http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
2084 #
2085 # From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
2086 # ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
2087 # been brought forward to 2007-12-09. The official announcement was
2088 # published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la Repblica Bolivariana
2089 # de Venezuela, nmero 38.819" (official document for all laws or
2090 # resolution publication)
2091 # http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
2092
2093 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-04-15):
2094 # https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/204758-venezuela-modificar-huso-horario-sequia-elnino
2095 #
2096 # From Paul Eggert (2016-04-15):
2097 # Clocks advance 30 minutes on 2016-05-01 at 02:30....
2098 # "'Venezuela's new time-zone: hours without light, hours without water,
2099 # hours of presidential broadcasts, hours of lines,' quipped comedian
2100 # Jean Mary Curr ...". See: Cawthorne A, Kai D. Venezuela scraps
2101 # half-hour time difference set by Chavez. Reuters 2016-04-15 14:50 -0400
2102 # https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-timezone-idUSKCN0XC2BE
2103 #
2104 # From Matt Johnson (2016-04-20):
2105 # ... published in the official Gazette [2016-04-18], here:
2106 # http://historico.tsj.gob.ve/gaceta_ext/abril/1842016/E-1842016-4551.pdf
2107
2108 # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2109 Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890
2110 -4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
2111 -4:30 - %z 1965 Jan 1 0:00
2112 -4:00 - %z 2007 Dec 9 3:00
2113 -4:30 - %z 2016 May 1 2:30
2114 -4:00 - %z
2115