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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-01-28 10:52:15 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-01-28 10:52:15 -0800
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Chile has stopped changing its clocks
* NEWS: * antarctica (ChileAQ, Antarctica/Palmer): * southamerica (Chile, America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter): Chile will not change its clocks in April, or thereafter. Consider this to be their new standard time, effective April. (Thanks to Juan Correa.)
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--antarctica9
-rw-r--r--southamerica17
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b6b94a7..80c393f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
will shift from Central Time with DST to Eastern Time without DST
on 2015-02-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Gwillim Law.)
+ Chile will not change clocks in April or thereafter; its new standard time
+ will be its old daylight saving time. This affects America/Santiago,
+ Pacific/Easter, and Antarctica/Palmer. (Thanks to Juan Correa.)
+
New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica
index 1deff8e..ebae994 100644
--- a/antarctica
+++ b/antarctica
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 -
Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
+Rule ChileAQ 2012 2015 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
+Rule ChileAQ 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
# Argentina - year-round bases
# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
@@ -354,9 +354,10 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965
- -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
+ -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
-3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May
- -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT
+ -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -3:00 - CLT
#
#
# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index bdc29c2..3ab353e 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1206,6 +1206,11 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
+# From Juan Correa (2015-01-28):
+# ... today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep
+# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round....
+# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html
+
# NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
# 'antarctica' file.
@@ -1247,8 +1252,8 @@ Rule Chile 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
+Rule Chile 2012 2015 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
+Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -1259,11 +1264,13 @@ Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890
-4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time
-4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time
-5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time
- -4:00 Chile CL%sT
+ -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -3:00 - CLT
Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890
-7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time
- -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter Time
- -6:00 Chile EAS%sT
+ -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 3:00u # Easter Time
+ -6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -5:00 - EAST
#
# Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,