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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2014-11-04 12:15:59 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2014-11-04 12:15:59 -0800
commite72a94ecd851e666d516cda7565bda2af76767b8 (patch)
treeeccb1e06be88da340494dff849574a9bc10666ff
parent60b8123df6e3712695b0469cb4787b6af08e1cf4 (diff)
downloadtz-e72a94ecd851e666d516cda7565bda2af76767b8.tar.gz
* northamerica (America/Grand_Turk): Delay AST switch until next year.
(Thanks to Chris Walton.) * NEWS: Document this.
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--northamerica8
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6845b99..8bd6f5b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database
Unreleased, experimental changes
+ Changes affecting current and future time stamps
+
+ Turks & Caicos' switch from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round
+ did not occur on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. It's currently scheduled
+ for 2015-11-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Chris Walton.)
+
Changes affecting past time stamps
Many pre-1989 time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Seoul and
@@ -158,6 +164,7 @@ Release 2014g - 2014-08-28 12:31:23 -0700
Turks & Caicos is switching from US eastern time to UTC-4 year-round,
modeled as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.
+ [As noted in 2014j, this switch was later delayed.]
Changes affecting past time stamps
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 87bd032..c91430c 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -3131,13 +3131,17 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre
# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19):
# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See:
# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm
-# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.
+# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ...
+# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04):
+# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to
+# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year....
+# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890
-5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-5:00 - EST 1979
- -5:00 US E%sT 2014 Nov 2 2:00
+ -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00
-4:00 - AST
# British Virgin Is