1# $OpenBSD: southamerica,v 1.81 2024/02/05 17:07:23 millert Exp $
2# tzdb data for South America and environs
3
4# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
5# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
6
7# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
8# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
9# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
10# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
11
12# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-05):
13#
14# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
15# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
16# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
17# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
18#
19# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
20# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
21# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
22# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
23# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
24# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
25#
26# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
27# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
28# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
29#
30# These tables use numeric abbreviations like -03 and -0330 for
31# integer hour and minute UT offsets.  Although earlier editions used
32# alphabetic time zone abbreviations, these abbreviations were
33# invented and did not reflect common practice.
34
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38
39# Argentina
40
41# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
42# Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976.
43# Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974.  Switches at midnight.
44
45# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-19):
46# ARGENTINA           3 H BEHIND   UTC
47
48# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
49# I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
50# AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.
51
52# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
53Rule	Arg	1930	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	-
54Rule	Arg	1931	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
55Rule	Arg	1931	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
56Rule	Arg	1932	1940	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
57Rule	Arg	1932	1939	-	Nov	 1	0:00	1:00	-
58Rule	Arg	1940	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	-
59Rule	Arg	1941	only	-	Jun	15	0:00	0	-
60Rule	Arg	1941	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
61Rule	Arg	1943	only	-	Aug	 1	0:00	0	-
62Rule	Arg	1943	only	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
63Rule	Arg	1946	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
64Rule	Arg	1946	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
65Rule	Arg	1963	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
66Rule	Arg	1963	only	-	Dec	15	0:00	1:00	-
67Rule	Arg	1964	1966	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
68Rule	Arg	1964	1966	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	-
69Rule	Arg	1967	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	0	-
70Rule	Arg	1967	1968	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
71Rule	Arg	1968	1969	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
72Rule	Arg	1974	only	-	Jan	23	0:00	1:00	-
73Rule	Arg	1974	only	-	May	 1	0:00	0	-
74Rule	Arg	1988	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	-
75#
76# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
77# These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
78# obtaining the data from the:
79# Talleres de Hidrografía Naval Argentina
80# (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute)
81Rule	Arg	1989	1993	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
82Rule	Arg	1989	1992	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
83#
84# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):
85# From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
86# time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
87# to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.
88#
89# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
90# On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time,
91# which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
92# from the International Date Line.
93Rule	Arg	1999	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
94# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-28):
95# DST was set to expire on March 5, not March 3, but since it was converted
96# to standard time on March 3 it's more convenient for us to pretend that
97# it ended on March 3.
98Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	3	0:00	0	-
99#
100# From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01):
101# We just checked with our São Paulo office and they say the government of
102# Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST.
103# So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times.
104#
105# From Fabián L. Arce Jofré (2000-04-04):
106# The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
107# de la Rúa on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
108# in the winter time, rather than less.  The change took effect on March 3.
109#
110# From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06):
111# one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999
112# Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
113# in effect.... The article is at
114# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
115# ... The Law itself is "Ley No. 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
116# 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21.  The official publication is at:
117# http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
118# Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
119#
120# (2001-06-12):
121# the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday.
122# Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th....
123# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm
124#
125# (2001-06-25):
126# Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the
127# Senate annulled the 1999 law that introduced the changes later postponed.
128# http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm
129# It remains the vote of the Deputies..., but it will be the same....
130# This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina.
131# We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country.
132#
133# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-12-21):
134# A user (Leonardo Chaim) reported that Argentina will adopt DST....
135# all of the country (all Zone-entries) are affected.  News reports like
136# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=973037 indicate
137# that Argentina will use DST next year as well, from October to
138# March, although exact rules are not given.
139#
140# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2007-12-26)
141# The last hurdle of Argentina DST is over, the proposal was approved in
142# the lower chamber too (Diputados) with a vote 192 for and 2 against.
143# By the way thanks to Mariano Absatz and Daniel Mario Vega for the link to
144# the original scanned proposal, where the dates and the zero hours are
145# clear and unambiguous...This is the article about final approval:
146# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nota.asp?nota_id=973996
147#
148# From Paul Eggert (2007-12-22):
149# For dates after mid-2008, the following rules are my guesses and
150# are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
151
152# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-09-05):
153# As per message from Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz (Nicaragua),
154# Argentina will start DST on Sunday October 19, 2008.
155#
156# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
157# http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
158
159# From Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
160# via Rodrigo Severo:
161# Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
162# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
163# The new one is law No. 26.350
164# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
165# So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
166
167# From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
168# Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
169# in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
170# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
171#
172
173# Decree 1705/2008 excepting 12 Provinces from applying DST in the summer
174# 2008/2009: Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, La
175# Pampa, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
176# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
177#
178# Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
179# Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
180# included in Decree 1705/2008).
181# http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
182
183# From fullinet (2009-10-18):
184# As announced in
185# http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
186# (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
187# (English: "No hour change").
188#
189# "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvió no modificar la hora
190# oficial, decisión que estaba en estudio para su implementación el
191# domingo 18 de octubre. Desde el Ministerio de Planificación se anunció
192# que la Argentina hoy, en estas condiciones meteorológicas, no necesita
193# la modificación del huso horario, ya que 2009 nos encuentra con
194# crecimiento en la producción y distribución energética."
195
196Rule	Arg	2007	only	-	Dec	30	0:00	1:00	-
197Rule	Arg	2008	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
198Rule	Arg	2008	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
199
200# From Mariano Absatz (2004-05-21):
201# Today it was officially published that the Province of Mendoza is changing
202# its timezone this winter... starting tomorrow night....
203# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040521-27158-normas.pdf
204# From Paul Eggert (2004-05-24):
205# It's Law No. 7,210.  This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
206# now we'll assume it's for this year only.
207#
208# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-31):
209# Hora de verano para la República Argentina
210# http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
211# says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
212# to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25.  Go with this more precise value
213# over Shanks & Pottenger.  It is upward compatible with Milne, who
214# says Córdoba time was -4:16:48.2.
215
216#
217# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-05):
218# These media articles from a major newspaper mostly cover the current state:
219# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/27/de_604825.asp
220# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/05/28/de_605203.asp
221#
222# The following eight (8) provinces pulled clocks back to UTC-04:00 at
223# midnight Monday May 31st. (that is, the night between 05/31 and 06/01).
224# Apparently, all nine provinces would go back to UTC-03:00 at the same
225# time in October 17th.
226#
227# Catamarca, Chubut, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz,
228# Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán.
229#
230# From Mariano Absatz (2004-06-14):
231# ... this weekend, the Province of Tucumán decided it'd go back to UTC-03:00
232# yesterday midnight (that is, at 24:00 Saturday 12th), since the people's
233# annoyance with the change is much higher than the power savings obtained....
234#
235# From Gwillim Law (2004-06-14):
236# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/04/06/10/de_609078.asp ...
237#     "The time change in Tierra del Fuego was a conflicted decision from
238#   the start.  The government had decreed that the measure would take
239#   effect on June 1, but a normative error forced the new time to begin
240#   three days earlier, from a Saturday to a Sunday....
241# Our understanding was that the change was originally scheduled to take place
242# on June 1 at 00:00 in Chubut, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego (and some other
243# provinces).  Sunday was May 30, only two days earlier.  So the article
244# contains a contradiction.  I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday
245# date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del
246# Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00.
247#
248# From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05):
249# The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone
250# back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the
251# new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17).
252# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf
253#
254# From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05):
255# San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between
256# Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st.  It changed back to UTC-03:00
257# at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th....
258# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html
259# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html
260# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html
261
262# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-01-17):
263# Here are articles that Argentina Province San Luis is planning to end DST
264# as earlier as upcoming Monday January 21, 2008 or February 2008:
265#
266# Provincia argentina retrasa reloj y marca diferencia con resto del país
267# (Argentine Province delayed clock and mark difference with the rest of the
268# country)
269# http://cl.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200801171849_EFE_ET4373&idtel
270#
271# Es inminente que en San Luis atrasen una hora los relojes
272# (It is imminent in San Luis clocks one hour delay)
273# https://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/253414/Economia/Es-inminente-que-en-San-Luis-atrasen-una-hora-los-relojes.html
274# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina02.html
275
276# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-18):
277# The page of the San Luis provincial government
278# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=0&id=22812
279# confirms what Alex Krivenyshev has earlier sent to the tz
280# emailing list about that San Luis plans to return to standard
281# time much earlier than the rest of the country. It also
282# confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
283# refused to follow San Luis in this change.
284#
285# The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
286# hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
287# a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
288# independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
289# 1990 and 1991 which has not been confirmed).
290
291# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-01-25):
292# Unfortunately the below page has become defunct, about the San Luis
293# time change. Perhaps because it now is part of a group of pages "Most
294# important pages of 2008."
295#
296# You can use
297# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/notas.asp?idCanal=8141&id=22834
298# instead it seems. Or use "Buscador" from the main page of the San Luis
299# government, and fill in "huso" and click OK, and you will get 3 pages
300# from which the first one is identical to the above.
301
302# From Mariano Absatz (2008-01-28):
303# I can confirm that the Province of San Luis (and so far only that
304# province) decided to go back to UTC-3 effective midnight Jan 20th 2008
305# (that is, Monday 21st at 0:00 is the time the clocks were delayed back
306# 1 hour), and they intend to keep UTC-3 as their timezone all year round
307# (that is, unless they change their mind any minute now).
308#
309# So we'll have to add yet another city to 'southamerica' (I think San
310# Luis city is the mos populated city in the Province, so it'd be
311# America/Argentina/San_Luis... of course I can't remember if San Luis's
312# history of particular changes goes along with Mendoza or San Juan :-(
313# (I only remember not being able to collect hard facts about San Luis
314# back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
315# mailed them personally and never got an answer).
316
317# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
318# Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
319# 1992, from the IATA otherwise.  As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
320# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
321# was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
322# keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
323# other 5 subregions.
324
325# From Mariano Absatz (2009-03-13):
326# Yesterday (with our usual 2-day notice) the Province of San Luis
327# decided that next Sunday instead of "staying" @utc-03:00 they will go
328# to utc-04:00 until the second Saturday in October...
329#
330# The press release is at
331# http://www.sanluis.gov.ar/SL/Paginas/NoticiaDetalle.asp?TemaId=1&InfoPrensaId=3102
332# (I couldn't find the decree, but www.sanluis.gov.ar
333# is the official page for the Province Government.)
334#
335# There's also a note in only one of the major national papers ...
336# http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1107912
337#
338# The press release says [quick and dirty translation]:
339# ... announced that next Sunday, at 00:00, Puntanos (the San Luis
340# inhabitants) will have to turn back one hour their clocks
341#
342# Since then, San Luis will establish its own Province timezone. Thus,
343# during 2009, this timezone change will run from 00:00 the third Sunday
344# in March until 24:00 of the second Saturday in October.
345
346# From Mariano Absatz (2009-10-16):
347# ...the Province of San Luis is a case in itself.
348#
349# The Law at
350# http://www.diputadossanluis.gov.ar/diputadosasp/paginas/verNorma.asp?NormaID=276
351# is ambiguous because establishes a calendar from the 2nd Sunday in
352# October at 0:00 thru the 2nd Saturday in March at 24:00 and the
353# complement of that starting on the 2nd Sunday of March at 0:00 and
354# ending on the 2nd Saturday of March at 24:00.
355#
356# This clearly breaks every time the 1st of March or October is a Sunday.
357#
358# IMHO, the "spirit of the Law" is to make the changes at 0:00 on the 2nd
359# Sunday of October and March.
360#
361# The problem is that the changes in the rest of the Provinces that did
362# change in 2007/2008, were made according to the Federal Law and Decrees
363# that did so on the 3rd Sunday of October and March.
364#
365# In fact, San Luis actually switched from UTC-4 to UTC-3 last Sunday
366# (October 11th) at 0:00.
367#
368# So I guess a new set of rules, besides "Arg", must be made and the last
369# America/Argentina/San_Luis entries should change to use these...
370# ...
371
372# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
373# According to news reports from El Diario de la República Province San
374# Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
375# after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
376# Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
377#
378# Confirmaron la prórroga del huso horario de verano (Spanish)
379# http://www.eldiariodelarepublica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29383&Itemid=9
380# or (some English translation):
381# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina08.html
382
383# From Mariano Absatz (2010-04-12):
384# yes...I can confirm this...and given that San Luis keeps calling
385# UTC-03:00 "summer time", we should't just let San Luis go back to "Arg"
386# rules...San Luis is still using "Western ARgentina Time" and it got
387# stuck on Summer daylight savings time even though the summer is over.
388
389# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-23):
390# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at -04
391# with perpetual daylight saving time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
392# just say it's at -03; see, for example,
393# https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
394# We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
395# standard time, so let's do that here too.  This does not change UTC
396# offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations.  One minor
397# plus is that this silences a zic complaint that there's no POSIX TZ
398# setting for timestamps past 2038.
399
400# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
401#
402# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
403Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
404		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
405			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May    # Córdoba Mean Time
406			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
407			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
408			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
409			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
410			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
411#
412# Córdoba (CB), Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN),
413# Chaco (CC), Formosa (FM), Santiago del Estero (SE)
414#
415# Shanks & Pottenger also make the following claims, which we haven't verified:
416# - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
417# - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
418# - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
419# - Santiago del Estero switched to -4:00 on 1991-04-01,
420#   then to -3:00 on 1991-04-26.
421#
422		#STDOFF	       -4:16:48.25
423Zone America/Argentina/Cordoba -4:16:48 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
424			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
425			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
426			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
427			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
428			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
429			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
430			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
431			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
432#
433# Salta (SA), La Pampa (LP), Neuquén (NQ), Rio Negro (RN)
434Zone America/Argentina/Salta -4:21:40 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
435		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
436			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
437			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
438			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
439			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
440			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
441			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
442			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
443			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
444			-3:00	-	-03
445#
446# Tucumán (TM)
447Zone America/Argentina/Tucuman -4:20:52 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
448		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
449			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
450			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
451			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
452			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
453			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
454			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
455			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
456			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
457			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 13
458			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02
459#
460# La Rioja (LR)
461Zone America/Argentina/La_Rioja -4:27:24 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
462		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
463			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
464			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
465			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
466			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  1
467			-4:00	-	-04	1991 May  7
468			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
469			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
470			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
471			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
472			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
473			-3:00	-	-03
474#
475# San Juan (SJ)
476Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
477		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
478			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
479			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
480			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
481			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  1
482			-4:00	-	-04	1991 May  7
483			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
484			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
485			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 31
486			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jul 25
487			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
488			-3:00	-	-03
489#
490# Jujuy (JY)
491Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 -	LMT	1894 Oct 31
492		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
493			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
494			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
495			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
496			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990 Mar  4
497			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 28
498			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar 17
499			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct  6
500			-3:00	1:00	-02	1992
501			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
502			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
503			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
504			-3:00	-	-03
505#
506# Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH)
507Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
508		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
509			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
510			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
511			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
512			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
513			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
514			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
515			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
516			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
517			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
518			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
519			-3:00	-	-03
520#
521# Mendoza (MZ)
522Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
523		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
524			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
525			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
526			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
527			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990 Mar  4
528			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 15
529			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar  1
530			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 15
531			-4:00	1:00	-03	1992 Mar  1
532			-4:00	-	-04	1992 Oct 18
533			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
534			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
535			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 23
536			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Sep 26
537			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
538			-3:00	-	-03
539#
540# San Luis (SL)
541
542Rule	SanLuis	2008	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
543Rule	SanLuis	2007	2008	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	-
544
545Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
546		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
547			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
548			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
549			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
550			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1990
551			-3:00	1:00	-02	1990 Mar 14
552			-4:00	-	-04	1990 Oct 15
553			-4:00	1:00	-03	1991 Mar  1
554			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Jun  1
555			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Oct  3
556			-4:00	1:00	-03	2000 Mar  3
557			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 31
558			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jul 25
559			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Jan 21
560			-4:00	SanLuis	-04/-03	2009 Oct 11
561			-3:00	-	-03
562#
563# Santa Cruz (SC)
564Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
565		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
566			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
567			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
568			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
569			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
570			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
571			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
572			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
573			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
574			-3:00	-	-03
575#
576# Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (TF)
577Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
578		#STDOFF	-4:16:48.25
579			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
580			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
581			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
582			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
583			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
584			-3:00	-	-03	2004 May 30
585			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
586			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	2008 Oct 18
587			-3:00	-	-03
588
589# Aruba
590# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
591Zone	America/Aruba	-4:40:24 -	LMT	1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad
592			-4:30	-	-0430	1965
593			-4:00	-	AST
594
595# Bolivia
596# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
597Zone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
598			-4:32:36 -	CMT	1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT
599			-4:32:36 1:00	BST	1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST
600			-4:00	-	-04
601
602# Brazil
603
604# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
605# The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules
606# just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade.
607# The rule change lasted only part of the day;
608# the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business
609# was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon.
610
611# From IATA SSIM (1996-02):
612# _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS),
613# Santa Catarina (SC), Paraná (PR), São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ),
614# Espírito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Goiás (GO),
615# Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL].
616# [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.]
617
618# From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07):
619# Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Goiás until 1989), and other
620# sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were
621# always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST....
622# The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91.  Each issue from then until
623# 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95,
624# along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2
625# (UTC-4)....  The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is
626# UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is
627# UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's
628# become part of the state of Pernambuco).  The boundary between BR1 and BR2
629# has never been clearly stated.  They've simply been called East and West.
630# However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline
631# Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil.  For each
632# airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM.  From that
633# information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amapá (AP), Ceará (CE),
634# Maranhão (MA), Paraíba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piauí (PI), and Rio Grande do
635# Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Pará (PA) are all in BR1 without DST.
636
637# From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27):
638# Brazilian official page <http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html>
639
640# From Jesper Nørgaard (2000-11-03):
641# [For an official list of which regions in Brazil use which time zones, see:]
642# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
643# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
644
645# From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
646# The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
647#
648# Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
649# the results are known almost immediately.  Yesterday, it was the first
650# round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
651# Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies.  Nobody is
652# counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
653# round for the Presidency and also for some Governors.  The 2nd round will
654# take place on October 27th.
655#
656# The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
657# of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
658# Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
659# the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
660# (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
661
662# From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04):
663# It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly
664# modern Brazilian ... voting machines which, apparently, can't deal
665# with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections.
666
667# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20):
668# Brazil will start DST on 2007-10-14 00:00 and end on 2008-02-17 00:00:
669# http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do;jsessionid=BBA06811AFCAAC28F0285210913513DA?newsId=13975
670
671# From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
672# ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
673# Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
674# effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
675#
676# a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
677# part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
678# timezone UTC+4
679# b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
680# part of it, as was before.
681#
682# This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao Viana of Acre state, that
683# proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying
684# programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone
685# UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections
686# were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This
687# change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,
688# 1913.
689
690# From Rodrigo Severo (2008-06-24):
691# Just correcting the URL:
692# https://www.in.gov.br/imprensa/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=do&secao=1&pagina=1&data=25/04/2008
693#
694# As a result of the above Decree I believe the America/Rio_Branco
695# timezone shall be modified from UTC-5 to UTC-4 and a new timezone shall
696# be created to represent the...west side of the Pará State. I
697# suggest this new timezone be called Santarem as the most
698# important/populated city in the affected area.
699#
700# This new timezone would be the same as the Rio_Branco timezone up to
701# the 2008/06/24 change which would be to UTC-3 instead of UTC-4.
702
703# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-24):
704# This is a quick reference page for New and Old Brazil Time Zones map.
705# http://www.worldtimezone.com/brazil-time-new-old.php
706#
707# - 4 time zones replaced by 3 time zones - eliminating time zone UTC-05
708# (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT-04) - western
709# part of Par state is moving to one timezone UTC-03 (from UTC-04).
710
711# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
712# The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
713# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
714# http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
715
716# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
717# As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
718# yesterday, Brazil will start DST on 2008-10-19 (need to change rule) and
719# it will end on 2009-02-15 (current rule for Brazil is fine). Based on
720# past years experience with the elections, there was a good chance that
721# the start was postponed to November, but it did not happen this year.
722#
723# It has not yet been posted to http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
724#
725# An official page about it:
726# http://www.mme.gov.br/site/news/detail.do?newsId=16722
727# Note that this link does not always work directly, but must be accessed
728# by going to
729# http://www.mme.gov.br/first
730#
731# One example link that works directly:
732# http://jornale.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13530&Itemid=54
733# (Portuguese)
734#
735# We have a written a short article about it as well:
736# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-dst-2008-2009.html
737#
738# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-04):
739# State Bahia will return to Daylight savings time this year after 8 years off.
740# The announcement was made by Governor Jaques Wagner in an interview to a
741# television station in Salvador.
742
743# In Portuguese:
744# http://g1.globo.com/bahia/noticia/2011/10/governador-jaques-wagner-confirma-horario-de-verao-na-bahia.html
745# https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI5390887-EI8139,00-Bahia+volta+a+ter+horario+de+verao+apos+oito+anos.html
746
747# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-07):
748# There is news in the media, however there is still no decree about it.
749# I just send a e-mail to Zulmira Brandao at http://pcdsh01.on.br/ the
750# official agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
751# still in force.
752
753# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
754# It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
755# time.
756#	 [ and in a second message (same day): ]
757# I found the decree.
758#
759# DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
760# Link :
761# http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
762
763# From Kelley Cook (2012-10-16):
764# The governor of state of Bahia in Brazil announced on Thursday that
765# due to public pressure, he is reversing the DST policy they implemented
766# last year and will not be going to Summer Time on October 21st....
767# http://www.correio24horas.com.br/r/artigo/apos-pressoes-wagner-suspende-horario-de-verao-na-bahia
768
769# From Rodrigo Severo (2012-10-16):
770# Tocantins state will have DST.
771# https://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
772
773# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
774# Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
775# http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
776# We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
777# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
778
779# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-10-17):
780# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/acre-amazonas-change-time-zone.html
781# Senator Jorge Viana announced that Acre will change time zone on November 10.
782# He did not specify the time of the change, nor if western parts of Amazonas
783# will change as well.
784#
785# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-17):
786# For now, assume western Amazonas will change as well.
787
788# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
789# Decree 20,466 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm> (1931-10-01)
790# Decree 21,896 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm> (1932-01-10)
791Rule	Brazil	1931	only	-	Oct	 3	11:00	1:00	-
792Rule	Brazil	1932	1933	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
793Rule	Brazil	1932	only	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
794# Decree 23,195 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm> (1933-10-10)
795# revoked DST.
796# Decree 27,496 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm> (1949-11-24)
797# Decree 27,998 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm> (1950-04-13)
798Rule	Brazil	1949	1952	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
799Rule	Brazil	1950	only	-	Apr	16	 1:00	0	-
800Rule	Brazil	1951	1952	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
801# Decree 32,308 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm> (1953-02-24)
802Rule	Brazil	1953	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
803# Decree 34,724 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm> (1953-11-30)
804# revoked DST.
805# Decree 52,700 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm> (1963-10-18)
806# established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00
807# in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought.
808# Decree 53,071 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm> (1963-12-03)
809# extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09.
810Rule	Brazil	1963	only	-	Dec	 9	 0:00	1:00	-
811# Decree 53,604 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm> (1964-02-25)
812# extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school).
813Rule	Brazil	1964	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
814# Decree 55,639 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm> (1965-01-27)
815Rule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Jan	31	 0:00	1:00	-
816Rule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Mar	31	 0:00	0	-
817# Decree 57,303 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm> (1965-11-22)
818Rule	Brazil	1965	only	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
819# Decree 57,843 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm> (1966-02-18)
820Rule	Brazil	1966	1968	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
821Rule	Brazil	1966	1967	-	Nov	 1	 0:00	1:00	-
822# Decree 63,429 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm> (1968-10-15)
823# revoked DST.
824# Decree 91,698 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm> (1985-09-27)
825Rule	Brazil	1985	only	-	Nov	 2	 0:00	1:00	-
826# Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21)
827# Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13)
828Rule	Brazil	1986	only	-	Mar	15	 0:00	0	-
829# Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01)
830Rule	Brazil	1986	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
831Rule	Brazil	1987	only	-	Feb	14	 0:00	0	-
832# Decree 94,922 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm> (1987-09-22)
833Rule	Brazil	1987	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
834Rule	Brazil	1988	only	-	Feb	 7	 0:00	0	-
835# Decree 96,676 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm> (1988-09-12)
836# except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory)
837Rule	Brazil	1988	only	-	Oct	16	 0:00	1:00	-
838Rule	Brazil	1989	only	-	Jan	29	 0:00	0	-
839# Decree 98,077 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm> (1989-08-21)
840# with the same exceptions
841Rule	Brazil	1989	only	-	Oct	15	 0:00	1:00	-
842Rule	Brazil	1990	only	-	Feb	11	 0:00	0	-
843# Decree 99,530 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm> (1990-09-17)
844# adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF.
845# Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT.
846Rule	Brazil	1990	only	-	Oct	21	 0:00	1:00	-
847Rule	Brazil	1991	only	-	Feb	17	 0:00	0	-
848# Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm> (1991-09-25)
849# adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF.
850Rule	Brazil	1991	only	-	Oct	20	 0:00	1:00	-
851Rule	Brazil	1992	only	-	Feb	 9	 0:00	0	-
852# Unnumbered decree <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm> (1992-10-16)
853# adopted by same states.
854Rule	Brazil	1992	only	-	Oct	25	 0:00	1:00	-
855Rule	Brazil	1993	only	-	Jan	31	 0:00	0	-
856# Decree 942 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm> (1993-09-28)
857# adopted by same states, plus AM.
858# Decree 1,252 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm> (1994-09-22;
859# web page corrected 2004-01-07) adopted by same states, minus AM.
860# Decree 1,636 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm> (1995-09-14)
861# adopted by same states, plus MT and TO.
862# Decree 1,674 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm> (1995-10-13)
863# adds AL, SE.
864Rule	Brazil	1993	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=11	 0:00	1:00	-
865Rule	Brazil	1994	1995	-	Feb	Sun>=15	 0:00	0	-
866Rule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Feb	11	 0:00	0	-
867# Decree 2,000 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm> (1996-09-04)
868# adopted by same states, minus AL, SE.
869Rule	Brazil	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	-
870Rule	Brazil	1997	only	-	Feb	16	 0:00	0	-
871# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12):
872# In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that
873# because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS,
874# they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit.
875# This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1
876# to help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
877#
878# Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states.
879Rule	Brazil	1997	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	-
880# Decree 2,495 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG>
881# (1998-02-10)
882Rule	Brazil	1998	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	0	-
883# Decree 2,780 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg> (1998-09-11)
884# adopted by the same states as before.
885Rule	Brazil	1998	only	-	Oct	11	 0:00	1:00	-
886Rule	Brazil	1999	only	-	Feb	21	 0:00	0	-
887# Decree 3,150 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3150.gif>
888# (1999-08-23) adopted by same states.
889# Decree 3,188 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV99.gif> (1999-09-30)
890# adds SE, AL, PB, PE, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR.
891Rule	Brazil	1999	only	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
892Rule	Brazil	2000	only	-	Feb	27	 0:00	0	-
893# Decree 3,592 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DEC3592.htm> (2000-09-06)
894# adopted by the same states as before.
895# Decree 3,630 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3630.jpg> (2000-10-13)
896# repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00.
897# Decree 3,632 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/Dec3632.jpg> (2000-10-17)
898# repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
899# Decree 3,916 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif>
900# (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
901Rule	Brazil	2000	2001	-	Oct	Sun>=8	 0:00	1:00	-
902Rule	Brazil	2001	2006	-	Feb	Sun>=15	 0:00	0	-
903# Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
904# 4,399 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm>
905Rule	Brazil	2002	only	-	Nov	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
906# Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO.
907# 4,844 <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm>
908Rule	Brazil	2003	only	-	Oct	19	 0:00	1:00	-
909# Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT.
910# 5,223 <http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
911Rule	Brazil	2004	only	-	Nov	 2	 0:00	1:00	-
912# Decree 5,539 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5539.gif> (2005-09-19),
913# adopted by the same states as before.
914Rule	Brazil	2005	only	-	Oct	16	 0:00	1:00	-
915# Decree 5,920 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV5920.gif> (2006-10-03),
916# adopted by the same states as before.
917Rule	Brazil	2006	only	-	Nov	 5	 0:00	1:00	-
918Rule	Brazil	2007	only	-	Feb	25	 0:00	0	-
919# Decree 6,212 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV6212.gif> (2007-09-26),
920# adopted by the same states as before.
921Rule	Brazil	2007	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	 0:00	1:00	-
922# From Frederico A. C. Neves (2008-09-10):
923# According to this decree
924# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2008/Decreto/D6558.htm
925# [t]he DST period in Brazil now on will be from the 3rd Oct Sunday to the
926# 3rd Feb Sunday. There is an exception on the return date when this is
927# the Carnival Sunday then the return date will be the next Sunday...
928Rule	Brazil	2008	2017	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
929Rule	Brazil	2008	2011	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
930# Decree 7,584 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7584_20111013.jpg> (2011-10-13)
931# added Bahia.
932Rule	Brazil	2012	only	-	Feb	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
933# Decree 7,826 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto7826_20121015.jpg> (2012-10-15)
934# removed Bahia and added Tocantins.
935# Decree 8,112 <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HVdecreto8112_20130930.JPG> (2013-09-30)
936# removed Tocantins.
937Rule	Brazil	2013	2014	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
938Rule	Brazil	2015	only	-	Feb	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
939Rule	Brazil	2016	2019	-	Feb	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
940# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-18):
941# According to many media sources, next year's DST start in Brazil will move to
942# the first Sunday of November
943# ... https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-delays-dst-2018.html
944# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-20):
945# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/D9242.htm
946# From Fábio Gomes (2018-10-04):
947# The Brazilian president just announced a new change on this year DST.
948# It was scheduled to start on November 4th and it was changed to November 18th.
949# From Rodrigo Brüning Wessler (2018-10-15):
950# The Brazilian government just announced that the change in DST was
951# canceled....  Maybe the president Michel Temer also woke up one hour
952# earlier today. :)
953Rule	Brazil	2018	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
954# The last ruleset listed above says that the following states observed DST:
955# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP.
956#
957# From Steffen Thorsen (2019-04-05):
958# According to multiple sources the Brazilian president wants to get rid of DST.
959# https://gmconline.com.br/noticias/politica/bolsonaro-horario-de-verao-deve-acabar-este-ano
960# https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/04/05/governo-anuncia-fim-do-horario-de-verao.ghtml
961# From Marcus Diniz (2019-04-25):
962# Brazil no longer has DST changes - decree signed today
963# https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/04/25/bolsonaro-assina-decreto-que-acaba-com-o-horario-de-verao.ghtml
964# From Daniel Soares de Oliveira (2019-04-26):
965# http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2019-2022/2019/Decreto/D9772.htm
966
967# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
968#
969# Fernando de Noronha (administratively part of PE)
970Zone America/Noronha	-2:09:40 -	LMT	1914
971			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	1990 Sep 17
972			-2:00	-	-02	1999 Sep 30
973			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	2000 Oct 15
974			-2:00	-	-02	2001 Sep 13
975			-2:00	Brazil	-02/-01	2002 Oct  1
976			-2:00	-	-02
977# Other Atlantic islands have no permanent settlement.
978# These include Trindade and Martim Vaz (administratively part of ES),
979# Rocas Atoll (RN), and the St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (PE).
980# Fernando de Noronha was a separate territory from 1942-09-02 to 1989-01-01;
981# it also included the Penedos.
982#
983# Amapá (AP), east Pará (PA)
984# East Pará includes Belém, Marabá, Serra Norte, and São Félix do Xingu.
985# The division between east and west Pará is the river Xingu.
986# In the north a very small part from the river Javary (now Jari I guess,
987# the border with Amapá) to the Amazon, then to the Xingu.
988Zone America/Belem	-3:13:56 -	LMT	1914
989			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1988 Sep 12
990			-3:00	-	-03
991#
992# west Pará (PA)
993# West Pará includes Altamira, Óbidos, Prainha, Oriximiná, and Santarém.
994Zone America/Santarem	-3:38:48 -	LMT	1914
995			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
996			-4:00	-	-04	2008 Jun 24  0:00
997			-3:00	-	-03
998#
999# Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
1000# Paraíba (PB)
1001Zone America/Fortaleza	-2:34:00 -	LMT	1914
1002			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
1003			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
1004			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 22
1005			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
1006			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
1007			-3:00	-	-03
1008#
1009# Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
1010Zone America/Recife	-2:19:36 -	LMT	1914
1011			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
1012			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
1013			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 15
1014			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
1015			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
1016			-3:00	-	-03
1017#
1018# Tocantins (TO)
1019Zone America/Araguaina	-3:12:48 -	LMT	1914
1020			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
1021			-3:00	-	-03	1995 Sep 14
1022			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2003 Sep 24
1023			-3:00	-	-03	2012 Oct 21
1024			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2013 Sep
1025			-3:00	-	-03
1026#
1027# Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
1028Zone America/Maceio	-2:22:52 -	LMT	1914
1029			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1990 Sep 17
1030			-3:00	-	-03	1995 Oct 13
1031			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1996 Sep  4
1032			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Sep 30
1033			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2000 Oct 22
1034			-3:00	-	-03	2001 Sep 13
1035			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2002 Oct  1
1036			-3:00	-	-03
1037#
1038# Bahia (BA)
1039# There are too many Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/Bahia instead
1040# of America/Salvador.
1041Zone America/Bahia	-2:34:04 -	LMT	1914
1042			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2003 Sep 24
1043			-3:00	-	-03	2011 Oct 16
1044			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	2012 Oct 21
1045			-3:00	-	-03
1046#
1047# Goiás (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
1048# Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Paraná (PR),
1049# Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
1050Zone America/Sao_Paulo	-3:06:28 -	LMT	1914
1051			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02	1963 Oct 23  0:00
1052			-3:00	1:00	-02	1964
1053			-3:00	Brazil	-03/-02
1054#
1055# Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
1056Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 -	LMT	1914
1057			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03
1058#
1059# Mato Grosso (MT)
1060Zone America/Cuiaba	-3:44:20 -	LMT	1914
1061			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	2003 Sep 24
1062			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Oct  1
1063			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03
1064#
1065# Rondônia (RO)
1066Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 -	LMT	1914
1067			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
1068			-4:00	-	-04
1069#
1070# Roraima (RR)
1071Zone America/Boa_Vista	-4:02:40 -	LMT	1914
1072			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
1073			-4:00	-	-04	1999 Sep 30
1074			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	2000 Oct 15
1075			-4:00	-	-04
1076#
1077# east Amazonas (AM): Boca do Acre, Jutaí, Manaus, Floriano Peixoto
1078# The great circle line from Tabatinga to Porto Acre divides
1079# east from west Amazonas.
1080Zone America/Manaus	-4:00:04 -	LMT	1914
1081			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1988 Sep 12
1082			-4:00	-	-04	1993 Sep 28
1083			-4:00	Brazil	-04/-03	1994 Sep 22
1084			-4:00	-	-04
1085#
1086# west Amazonas (AM): Atalaia do Norte, Boca do Maoco, Benjamin Constant,
1087#	Eirunepé, Envira, Ipixuna
1088Zone America/Eirunepe	-4:39:28 -	LMT	1914
1089			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1988 Sep 12
1090			-5:00	-	-05	1993 Sep 28
1091			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1994 Sep 22
1092			-5:00	-	-05	2008 Jun 24  0:00
1093			-4:00	-	-04	2013 Nov 10
1094			-5:00	-	-05
1095#
1096# Acre (AC)
1097Zone America/Rio_Branco	-4:31:12 -	LMT	1914
1098			-5:00	Brazil	-05/-04	1988 Sep 12
1099			-5:00	-	-05	2008 Jun 24  0:00
1100			-4:00	-	-04	2013 Nov 10
1101			-5:00	-	-05
1102
1103# Chile
1104
1105# From Paul Eggert (2022-03-15):
1106# Shanks & Pottenger says America/Santiago introduced standard time in
1107# 1890 and rounds its UT offset to 70W40; guess that in practice this
1108# was the same offset as in 1916-1919.  It also says Pacific/Easter
1109# standardized on 109W22 in 1890; assume this didn't change the clocks.
1110#
1111# Dates for America/Santiago from 1910 to 2004 are primarily from
1112# the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
1113# [1] Chile Law
1114# http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
1115# This contains a copy of this official table:
1116# Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
1117# https://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
1118# [1] needs several corrections, though.
1119#
1120# The first set of corrections is from:
1121# [2] History of the Official Time of Chile
1122# http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html (retrieved 2012-03-06).  See:
1123# https://web.archive.org/web/20120306042032/http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html
1124# This is an English translation of:
1125# Historia de la hora oficial de Chile (retrieved 2012-10-24).  See:
1126# https://web.archive.org/web/20121024234627/http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm
1127# A fancier Spanish version (requiring mouse-clicking) is at:
1128# http://www.horaoficial.cl/historia_hora.php
1129# Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
1130#
1131#  - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
1132#    Boletín No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910).  Go with [2].
1133#
1134#  - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
1135#    1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
1136#    Astronomical Observatory (OAN), then located in what is now
1137#    Quinta Normal in Santiago.  Go with [1], as this matches the meridian
1138#    referred to by the relevant Chilean laws to this day.
1139#
1140#  - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
1141#    Boletín No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23).  Go with [2].
1142#
1143#  - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
1144#    at midnight mainland time, the current common practice.  However,
1145#    go with [2]'s specification of 23:00 for the 1947-05-21 transition.
1146#
1147# Another correction to [1] is from Jesper Nørgaard Welen, who
1148# wrote (2006-10-08), "I think that there are some obvious mistakes in
1149# the suggested link from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66
1150# says that GMT-4 ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at
1151# 1990-09-15 (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16
1152# respectively), but anyhow it clears up some doubts too."
1153#
1154# Data for Pacific/Easter from 1910 through 1967 come from Shanks &
1155# Pottenger.  After that, for lack of better info assume
1156# Pacific/Easter is always two hours behind America/Santiago;
1157# this is known to work for DST transitions starting in 2008 and
1158# may well be true for earlier transitions.
1159
1160# From Tim Parenti (2022-07-06):
1161# For a brief period of roughly six weeks in 1946, DST was only observed on an
1162# emergency basis in specific regions of central Chile; namely, "the national
1163# territory between the provinces of Coquimbo and Concepción, inclusive".
1164# This was enacted by Decree 3,891, dated 1946-07-13, and took effect
1165# 1946-07-14 24:00, advancing these central regions to -03.
1166# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460715/#page/1
1167# The decree contemplated "[t]hat this advancement of the Official Time, even
1168# though it has been proposed for the cities of Santiago and Valparaíso only,
1169# must be agreed with that of other cities, due to the connection of various
1170# activities that require it, such as, for example, the operation of rail
1171# services".  It was originally set to expire after 30 days but was extended
1172# through 1946-08-31 by Decree 4,506, dated 1946-08-13.
1173# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460814/#page/1
1174#
1175# Law Number 8,522, promulgated 1946-08-27, reunified Chilean clocks at their
1176# new "Summer Time" of -04, reckoned as that of "the meridian of the
1177# Astronomical Observatory of Lo Espejo, advanced by 42 minutes and 45
1178# seconds".  Although this law specified the new Summer Time to start on 1
1179# September each year, a special "transitional article" started it a few days
1180# early, as soon as the law took effect.  As the law was to take force "from
1181# the date of its publication in the 'Diario Oficial', which happened the
1182# following day, presume the change took place in Santiago and its environs
1183# from 24:00 -03 to 23:00 -04 on Wednesday 1946-08-28.  Although this was a
1184# no-op for wall clocks in the north and south of the country, put their formal
1185# start to DST an hour later when they reached 24:00 -04.
1186# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19460828/#page/1
1187# After a brief "Winter Time" stint at -05 beginning 1947-04-01, Law Number
1188# 8,777, promulgated 1947-05-17, established year-round -04 "from 23:00 on the
1189# second day after it is published in the 'Diario Oficial'."  It was published
1190# on Monday 1947-05-19 and so took effect from Wednesday 1947-05-21 23:00.
1191# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do-h/19470519/#page/1
1192
1193# From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
1194# The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
1195# of October....  The law is the same for March and October.
1196# (1998-09-29):
1197# Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
1198# DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
1199# (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).
1200
1201# From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18):
1202# Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
1203# on April 3, (one-time change).
1204
1205# From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
1206# Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks.  This
1207# is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
1208# and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
1209# The Supreme Decree is located at
1210# http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
1211#
1212# From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
1213# http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
1214
1215# From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
1216# Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
1217# http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
1218#
1219# From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
1220# Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
1221
1222# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
1223# http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
1224# In English:
1225# Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
1226# of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
1227# August, not in October as they have since 1968.
1228
1229# From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
1230# As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
1231# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
1232# The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
1233# (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012....
1234# Quote from the website communication:
1235#
1236# 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
1237# a. Saturday April 28, 2012, clocks should go back 60 minutes; that is, at
1238# 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be 23:00
1239# of the same day.
1240# b. Saturday, September 1, 2012, clocks should go forward 60 minutes; that is,
1241# at 23:59:59, instead of passing to 0:00, the time should be adjusted to be
1242# 01:00 on September 2.
1243
1244# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-02-15):
1245# According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year,
1246# they will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned.  They
1247# hope to save energy.  The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new
1248# start date is 2013-09-08 00:00....
1249# http://www.gob.cl/informa/2013/02/15/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de-hora-para-el-ano-2013.htm
1250
1251# From José Miguel Garrido (2014-02-19):
1252# Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
1253# dates to 2014.
1254# DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
1255# DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
1256# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
1257
1258# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
1259# Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
1260# permanently until March 25 of 2017
1261# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/1-large.jpg
1262#
1263# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
1264# For now, assume that the extension will persist indefinitely.
1265
1266# From Juan Correa (2016-03-18):
1267# The decree regarding DST has been published in today's Official Gazette:
1268# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/versiones-anteriores/do/20160318/
1269# http://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1088502
1270# It does consider the second Saturday of May and August as the dates
1271# for the transition; and it lists DST dates until 2019, but I think
1272# this scheme will stick.
1273#
1274# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
1275# For now, assume the pattern holds for the indefinite future.
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
1280# From Juan Correa (2016-12-04):
1281# Magallanes region ... will keep DST (UTC -3) all year round....
1282# 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
1283# From Deborah Goldsmith (2017-01-19):
1284# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2017/01/17/41660/01/1169626.pdf
1285
1286# From Juan Correa (2018-08-13):
1287# As of moments ago, the Ministry of Energy in Chile has announced the new
1288# schema for DST. ...  Announcement in video (in Spanish):
1289# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029000399129374720
1290# From Yonathan Dossow (2018-08-13):
1291# The video says "first Saturday of September", we all know it means Sunday at
1292# midnight.
1293# From Tim Parenti (2018-08-13):
1294# Translating the captions on the video at 0:44-0:55, "We want to announce as
1295# Government that from 2019, Winter Time will be increased to 5 months, between
1296# the first Saturday of April and the first Saturday of September."
1297# At 2:08-2:20, "The Magallanes region will maintain its current time, as
1298# decided by the citizens during 2017, but our Government will promote a
1299# regional dialogue table to gather their opinion on this matter."
1300# https://twitter.com/MinEnergia/status/1029009354001973248
1301# "We will keep the new time policy unchanged for at least the next 4 years."
1302# So we extend the new rules on Saturdays at 24:00 mainland time indefinitely.
1303# From Juan Correa (2019-02-04):
1304# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2018/11/23/42212/01/1498738.pdf
1305
1306# From Juan Correa (2022-04-02):
1307# I found there was a decree published last Thursday that will keep
1308# Magallanes region to UTC -3 "indefinitely". The decree is available at
1309# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/03/31/43217-B/01/2108910.pdf
1310
1311# From Juan Correa (2022-08-09):
1312# the Internal Affairs Ministry (Ministerio del Interior) informed DST
1313# for America/Santiago will start on midnight of September 11th;
1314# and will end on April 1st, 2023. Magallanes region (America/Punta_Arenas)
1315# will keep UTC -3 "indefinitely"...  This is because on September 4th
1316# we will have a voting whether to approve a new Constitution.
1317#
1318# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2022-08-17):
1319# https://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/publicaciones/2022/08/13/43327/01/2172567.pdf
1320#
1321# From Paul Eggert (2022-08-17):
1322# Although the presidential decree stops at fall 2026, assume that
1323# similar DST rules will continue thereafter.
1324
1325# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1326Rule	Chile	1927	1931	-	Sep	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1327Rule	Chile	1928	1932	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1328Rule	Chile	1968	only	-	Nov	 3	4:00u	1:00	-
1329Rule	Chile	1969	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
1330Rule	Chile	1969	only	-	Nov	23	4:00u	1:00	-
1331Rule	Chile	1970	only	-	Mar	29	3:00u	0	-
1332Rule	Chile	1971	only	-	Mar	14	3:00u	0	-
1333Rule	Chile	1970	1972	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1334Rule	Chile	1972	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1335Rule	Chile	1973	only	-	Sep	30	4:00u	1:00	-
1336Rule	Chile	1974	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1337Rule	Chile	1987	only	-	Apr	12	3:00u	0	-
1338Rule	Chile	1988	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1339Rule	Chile	1988	1989	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1340Rule	Chile	1990	only	-	Sep	16	4:00u	1:00	-
1341Rule	Chile	1991	1996	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1342Rule	Chile	1991	1997	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1343Rule	Chile	1997	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
1344Rule	Chile	1998	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1345Rule	Chile	1998	only	-	Sep	27	4:00u	1:00	-
1346Rule	Chile	1999	only	-	Apr	 4	3:00u	0	-
1347Rule	Chile	1999	2010	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1348Rule	Chile	2000	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1349# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
1350# which is used below in specifying the transition.
1351Rule	Chile	2008	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
1352Rule	Chile	2009	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1353Rule	Chile	2010	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:00u	0	-
1354Rule	Chile	2011	only	-	May	Sun>=2	3:00u	0	-
1355Rule	Chile	2011	only	-	Aug	Sun>=16	4:00u	1:00	-
1356Rule	Chile	2012	2014	-	Apr	Sun>=23	3:00u	0	-
1357Rule	Chile	2012	2014	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
1358Rule	Chile	2016	2018	-	May	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
1359Rule	Chile	2016	2018	-	Aug	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1360Rule	Chile	2019	max	-	Apr	Sun>=2	3:00u	0	-
1361Rule	Chile	2019	2021	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
1362Rule	Chile	2022	only	-	Sep	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	-
1363Rule	Chile	2023	max	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	-
1364# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
1365# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08.  Ignore these.
1366# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1367Zone America/Santiago	-4:42:45 -	LMT	1890
1368			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
1369			-5:00	-	-05	1916 Jul  1
1370			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1918 Sep 10
1371			-4:00	-	-04	1919 Jul  1
1372			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1927 Sep  1
1373			-5:00	Chile	-05/-04	1932 Sep  1
1374			-4:00	-	-04	1942 Jun  1
1375			-5:00	-	-05	1942 Aug  1
1376			-4:00	-	-04	1946 Jul 14 24:00
1377			-4:00	1:00	-03	1946 Aug 28 24:00 # central CL
1378			-5:00	1:00	-04	1947 Mar 31 24:00
1379			-5:00	-	-05	1947 May 21 23:00
1380			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03
1381Zone America/Punta_Arenas -4:43:40 -	LMT	1890
1382			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1910 Jan 10
1383			-5:00	-	-05	1916 Jul  1
1384			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1918 Sep 10
1385			-4:00	-	-04	1919 Jul  1
1386			-4:42:45 -	SMT	1927 Sep  1
1387			-5:00	Chile	-05/-04	1932 Sep  1
1388			-4:00	-	-04	1942 Jun  1
1389			-5:00	-	-05	1942 Aug  1
1390			-4:00	-	-04	1946 Aug 28 24:00
1391			-5:00	1:00	-04	1947 Mar 31 24:00
1392			-5:00	-	-05	1947 May 21 23:00
1393			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03	2016 Dec  4
1394			-3:00	-	-03
1395Zone Pacific/Easter	-7:17:28 -	LMT	1890
1396			-7:17:28 -	EMT	1932 Sep    # Easter Mean Time
1397			-7:00	Chile	-07/-06	1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
1398			-6:00	Chile	-06/-05
1399#
1400# Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
1401# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
1402# and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
1403
1404# Antarctic base using South American rules
1405# (See the file 'antarctica' for more.)
1406#
1407# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
1408#
1409# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
1410# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
1411# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
1412# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
1413# Palmer has followed Chile.  Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
1414# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
1415#
1416# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1417Zone Antarctica/Palmer	0	-	-00	1965
1418			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
1419			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1982 May
1420			-4:00	Chile	-04/-03	2016 Dec  4
1421			-3:00	-	-03
1422
1423# Colombia
1424
1425# Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogotá time in 1899.  He writes,
1426# "A variation of fifteen minutes in the public clocks of Bogota is not rare."
1427
1428# From Alois Treindl (2022-11-10):
1429# End of time change in Colombia 1993 ... should be 6 February 24h ...
1430# DECRETO 267 DE 1993
1431# https://www.suin-juriscol.gov.co/viewDocument.asp?ruta=Decretos/1061335
1432
1433# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1434Rule	CO	1992	only	-	May	 3	 0:00	1:00	-
1435Rule	CO	1993	only	-	Feb	 6	24:00	0	-
1436# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1437		#STDOFF	-4:56:16.4
1438Zone	America/Bogota	-4:56:16 -	LMT	1884 Mar 13
1439			-4:56:16 -	BMT	1914 Nov 23 # Bogotá Mean Time
1440			-5:00	CO	-05/-04
1441# Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres
1442# no information; probably like America/Bogota
1443
1444# Curaçao
1445# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1446Zone	America/Curacao	-4:35:47 -	LMT	1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
1447			-4:30	-	-0430	1965
1448			-4:00	-	AST
1449
1450Link	America/Curacao	America/Kralendijk
1451Link	America/Curacao	America/Lower_Princes
1452# Ecuador
1453#
1454# Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
1455#
1456# From Alois Treindl (2016-12-15):
1457# https://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/hora-sixto-1993.html
1458# ... Whether the law applied also to Galápagos, I do not know.
1459# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-15):
1460# https://www.elcomercio.com/afull/modificacion-husohorario-ecuador-presidentes-decreto.html
1461# This says President Sixto Durán Ballén signed decree No. 285, which
1462# established DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05; it does not give transition
1463# times.  The people called it "hora de Sixto" ("Sixto hour").  The change did
1464# not go over well; a popular song "Qué hora es" by Jaime Guevara had lyrics
1465# that included "Amanecía en mitad de la noche, los guaguas iban a clase sin
1466# sol" ("It was dawning in the middle of the night, the buses went to class
1467# without sun").  Although Ballén's campaign slogan was "Ni un paso atrás"
1468# (Not one step back), the clocks went back in 1993 and the experiment was not
1469# repeated.  For now, assume transitions were at 00:00 local time country-wide.
1470#
1471# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1472Rule	Ecuador	1992	only	-	Nov	28	0:00	1:00	-
1473Rule	Ecuador	1993	only	-	Feb	 5	0:00	0	-
1474#
1475# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1476Zone America/Guayaquil	-5:19:20 -	LMT	1890
1477			-5:14:00 -	QMT	1931 # Quito Mean Time
1478			-5:00	Ecuador	-05/-04
1479Zone Pacific/Galapagos	-5:58:24 -	LMT	1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
1480			-5:00	-	-05	1986
1481			-6:00	Ecuador	-06/-05
1482
1483# Falklands
1484
1485# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1486# Between 1990 and 2000 inclusive, Shanks & Pottenger and the IATA agree except
1487# the IATA gives 1996-09-08.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1488
1489# From Falkland Islands Government Office, London (2001-01-22)
1490# via Jesper Nørgaard:
1491# ... the clocks revert back to Local Mean Time at 2 am on Sunday 15
1492# April 2001 and advance one hour to summer time at 2 am on Sunday 2
1493# September.  It is anticipated that the clocks will revert back at 2
1494# am on Sunday 21 April 2002 and advance to summer time at 2 am on
1495# Sunday 1 September.
1496
1497# From Rives McDow (2001-02-13):
1498#
1499# I have communicated several times with people there, and the last
1500# time I had communications that was helpful was in 1998.  Here is
1501# what was said then:
1502#
1503# "The general rule was that Stanley used daylight saving and the Camp
1504# did not. However for various reasons many people in the Camp have
1505# started to use daylight saving (known locally as 'Stanley Time')
1506# There is no rule as to who uses daylight saving - it is a matter of
1507# personal choice and so it is impossible to draw a map showing who
1508# uses it and who does not. Any list would be out of date as soon as
1509# it was produced. This year daylight saving ended on April 18/19th
1510# and started again on September 12/13th.  I do not know what the rule
1511# is, but can find out if you like.  We do not change at the same time
1512# as UK or Chile."
1513#
1514# I did have in my notes that the rule was "Second Saturday in Sep at
1515# 0:00 until third Saturday in Apr at 0:00".  I think that this does
1516# not agree in some cases with Shanks; is this true?
1517#
1518# Also, there is no mention in the list that some areas in the
1519# Falklands do not use DST.  I have found in my communications there
1520# that these areas are on the western half of East Falkland and all of
1521# West Falkland.  Stanley is the only place that consistently observes
1522# DST.  Again, as in other places in the world, the farmers don't like
1523# it.  West Falkland is almost entirely sheep farmers.
1524#
1525# I know one lady there that keeps a list of which farm keeps DST and
1526# which doesn't each year.  She runs a shop in Stanley, and says that
1527# the list changes each year.  She uses it to communicate to her
1528# customers, catching them when they are home for lunch or dinner.
1529
1530# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1531# For now, we'll just record the time in Stanley, since we have no
1532# better info.
1533
1534# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-04-01):
1535# The Falkland Islands will not turn back clocks this winter, but stay on
1536# daylight saving time.
1537#
1538# One source:
1539# http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=5914&source=3
1540#
1541# We have gotten this confirmed by a clerk of the legislative assembly:
1542# Normally the clocks revert to Local Mean Time (UTC/GMT -4 hours) on the
1543# third Sunday of April at 0200hrs and advance to Summer Time (UTC/GMT -3
1544# hours) on the first Sunday of September at 0200hrs.
1545#
1546# IMPORTANT NOTE: During 2011, on a trial basis, the Falkland Islands
1547# will not revert to local mean time, but clocks will remain on Summer
1548# time (UTC/GMT - 3 hours) throughout the whole of 2011.  Any long term
1549# change to local time following the trial period will be notified.
1550#
1551# From Andrew Newman (2012-02-24)
1552# A letter from Justin McPhee, Chief Executive,
1553# Cable & Wireless Falkland Islands (dated 2012-02-22)
1554# states...
1555#   The current Atlantic/Stanley entry under South America expects the
1556#   clocks to go back to standard Falklands Time (FKT) on the 15th April.
1557#   The database entry states that in 2011 Stanley was staying on fixed
1558#   summer time on a trial basis only.  FIG need to contact IANA and/or
1559#   the maintainers of the database to inform them we're adopting
1560#   the same policy this year and suggest recommendations for future years.
1561#
1562# For now we will assume permanent -03 for the Falklands
1563# until advised differently (to apply for 2012 and beyond, after the 2011
1564# experiment was apparently successful.)
1565# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1566Rule	Falk	1937	1938	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
1567Rule	Falk	1938	1942	-	Mar	Sun>=19	0:00	0	-
1568Rule	Falk	1939	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	1:00	-
1569Rule	Falk	1940	1942	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
1570Rule	Falk	1943	only	-	Jan	1	0:00	0	-
1571Rule	Falk	1983	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
1572Rule	Falk	1984	1985	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	0	-
1573Rule	Falk	1984	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	1:00	-
1574Rule	Falk	1985	2000	-	Sep	Sun>=9	0:00	1:00	-
1575Rule	Falk	1986	2000	-	Apr	Sun>=16	0:00	0	-
1576Rule	Falk	2001	2010	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
1577Rule	Falk	2001	2010	-	Sep	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
1578# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1579Zone Atlantic/Stanley	-3:51:24 -	LMT	1890
1580			-3:51:24 -	SMT	1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
1581			-4:00	Falk	-04/-03	1983 May
1582			-3:00	Falk	-03/-02	1985 Sep 15
1583			-4:00	Falk	-04/-03	2010 Sep  5  2:00
1584			-3:00	-	-03
1585
1586# French Guiana
1587# For the 1911/1912 establishment of standard time in French possessions, see:
1588# Société Française de Physique, Recueil de constantes physiques (1913),
1589# page 752, 18b.
1590# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1591Zone America/Cayenne	-3:29:20 -	LMT	1911 Jul  1
1592			-4:00	-	-04	1967 Oct
1593			-3:00	-	-03
1594
1595# Guyana
1596
1597# From P Chan (2020-11-27):
1598# https://books.google.com/books?id=5-5CAQAAMAAJ&pg=SA1-PA547
1599# The Official Gazette of British Guiana. (New Series.) Vol. XL. July to
1600# December, 1915, p 1547, lists as several notes:
1601# "Local Mean Time 3 hours 52 mins. 39 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time
1602# (Georgetown.) From 1st August, 1911, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 4
1603# hours slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on 1st July,
1604# 1911.  From 1st March, 1915, British Guiana Standard Mean Time 3 hours 45
1605# mins. 0 secs. slow of Greenwich Mean Time, by notice in Official Gazette on
1606# 23rd January, 1915."
1607#
1608# https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/10923-act_no._27_of_1975_-_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1975.pdf
1609# Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1975 (Act No. 27 of 1975)
1610# [dated 1975-07-31]
1611# "This Act...shall come into operation on 1st August, 1975."
1612# "...where any expression of time occurs...the time referred to shall signify
1613# the standard time of Guyana which shall be three hours behind Greenwich Mean
1614# Time."
1615#
1616# Circular No. 10/1992 dated 1992-03-20
1617# https://dps.gov.gy/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1992-03-20-Circular-010.pdf
1618# "...cabinet has decided that with effect from Sunday 29th March, 1992, Guyana
1619# Standard Time would be re-established at 01:00 hours by adjusting the hands
1620# of the clock back to 24:00 hours."
1621# Legislated in the Interpretation and general clauses (Amendment) Act 1992
1622# (Act No. 6 of 1992) [passed 1992-03-27, published 1992-04-18]
1623# https://parliament.gov.gy/documents/acts/5885-6_of_1992_interpretation_and_general_clauses_(amendment)_act_1992.pdf
1624
1625# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1626Zone	America/Guyana	-3:52:39 -	LMT	1911 Aug  1 # Georgetown
1627			-4:00	-	-04	1915 Mar  1
1628			-3:45	-	-0345	1975 Aug  1
1629			-3:00	-	-03	1992 Mar 29  1:00
1630			-4:00	-	-04
1631
1632# Paraguay
1633#
1634# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1635# Shanks & Pottenger say that spring transitions are 01:00 -> 02:00,
1636# and autumn transitions are 00:00 -> 23:00.  Go with pre-1999
1637# editions of Shanks, and with the IATA, who say transitions occur at 00:00.
1638#
1639# From Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (2013-09-20):
1640# No time of the day is established for the adjustment, so people normally
1641# adjust their clocks at 0 hour of the given dates.
1642#
1643# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1644Rule	Para	1975	1988	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1645Rule	Para	1975	1978	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
1646Rule	Para	1979	1991	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1647Rule	Para	1989	only	-	Oct	22	0:00	1:00	-
1648Rule	Para	1990	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1649Rule	Para	1991	only	-	Oct	 6	0:00	1:00	-
1650Rule	Para	1992	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
1651Rule	Para	1992	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00	1:00	-
1652Rule	Para	1993	only	-	Mar	31	0:00	0	-
1653Rule	Para	1993	1995	-	Oct	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1654Rule	Para	1994	1995	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	0	-
1655Rule	Para	1996	only	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
1656# IATA SSIM (2000-02) says 1999-10-10; ignore this for now.
1657# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-02):
1658# I have three independent reports that Paraguay changed to DST this Sunday
1659# (10-01).
1660#
1661# Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
1662# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
1663# http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
1664# Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
1665# fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power....  The time change
1666# system has been operating for several years.  Formerly there was a separate
1667# decree each year; the new law has the same effect, but permanently.  Every
1668# year, the time will change on the first Sunday of October; likewise, the
1669# clock will be set back on the first Sunday of March.
1670#
1671Rule	Para	1996	2001	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
1672# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Mar 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1673Rule	Para	1997	only	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	0	-
1674# Shanks & Pottenger say 1999-02-28; IATA SSIM (1999-02) says 1999-02-27, but
1675# (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
1676Rule	Para	1998	2001	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
1677# From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
1678# A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
1679# dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
1680# April.
1681Rule	Para	2002	2004	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
1682Rule	Para	2002	2003	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
1683#
1684# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-01-02):
1685# There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made
1686# a timezone rule change in autumn 2004.
1687# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
1688# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
1689# From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
1690# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
1691Rule	Para	2004	2009	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	-
1692Rule	Para	2005	2009	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
1693# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18):
1694# By decree number 3958 issued yesterday
1695# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/v1/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/decreto3958.pdf
1696# Paraguay changes its DST schedule, postponing the March rule to April and
1697# modifying the October date. The decree reads:
1698# ...
1699# Art. 1. It is hereby established that from the second Sunday of the month of
1700# April of this year (2010), the official time is to be set back 60 minutes,
1701# and that on the first Sunday of the month of October, it is to be set
1702# forward 60 minutes, in all the territory of the Paraguayan Republic.
1703# ...
1704Rule	Para	2010	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
1705Rule	Para	2010	2012	-	Apr	Sun>=8	0:00	0	-
1706#
1707# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-07):
1708# Paraguay will end DST on 2013-03-24 00:00....
1709# http://www.ande.gov.py/interna.php?id=1075
1710#
1711# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2013-03-15):
1712# The change in Paraguay is now final.  Decree number 10780
1713# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/uploads/pdf/presidencia-3b86ff4b691c79d4f5927ca964922ec74772ce857c02ca054a52a37b49afc7fb.pdf
1714# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2014-02-28):
1715# Decree 1264 can be found at:
1716# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/archivos/documentos/DECRETO1264_ey9r8zai.pdf
1717#
1718# From Paul Eggert (2023-07-26):
1719# Transition dates are now set by Law No. 7115, not by presidential decree.
1720# https://www.abc.com.py/politica/2023/07/12/promulgacion-el-cambio-de-hora-sera-por-ley/
1721# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2023-07-27):
1722# http://silpy.congreso.gov.py/descarga/ley-144138
1723Rule	Para	2013	max	-	Mar	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
1724
1725# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1726Zone America/Asuncion	-3:50:40 -	LMT	1890
1727			-3:50:40 -	AMT	1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time
1728			-4:00	-	-04	1972 Oct
1729			-3:00	-	-03	1974 Apr
1730			-4:00	Para	-04/-03
1731
1732# Peru
1733#
1734# From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26)
1735# <news:xrGmb.39935$gA1.13896113@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>:
1736# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over
1737# sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon.
1738#
1739# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1740# Shanks & Pottenger don't have this transition.  Assume 1986 was like 1987.
1741
1742# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1743Rule	Peru	1938	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1744Rule	Peru	1938	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1745Rule	Peru	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1:00	-
1746Rule	Peru	1939	1940	-	Mar	Sun>=24	0:00	0	-
1747Rule	Peru	1986	1987	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1748Rule	Peru	1986	1987	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1749Rule	Peru	1990	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1750Rule	Peru	1990	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1751# IATA is ambiguous for 1993/1995; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1752Rule	Peru	1994	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	1:00	-
1753Rule	Peru	1994	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	0	-
1754# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1755Zone	America/Lima	-5:08:12 -	LMT	1890
1756			-5:08:36 -	LMT	1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time?
1757			-5:00	Peru	-05/-04
1758
1759# South Georgia
1760# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1761Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 -	LMT	1890 # Grytviken
1762			-2:00	-	-02
1763
1764# South Sandwich Is
1765# uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered
1766
1767# Suriname
1768# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1769Zone America/Paramaribo	-3:40:40 -	LMT	1911
1770			-3:40:52 -	PMT	1935     # Paramaribo Mean Time
1771			-3:40:36 -	PMT	1945 Oct    # The capital moved?
1772			-3:30	-	-0330	1984 Oct
1773			-3:00	-	-03
1774
1775# Trinidad and Tobago
1776# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1777Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
1778			-4:00	-	AST
1779
1780Link	America/Port_of_Spain	America/Marigot
1781Link	America/Port_of_Spain	America/St_Barthelemy
1782# Uruguay
1783# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
1784# Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules.
1785#
1786# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-20), per Jeremie Bonjour (2018-01-31) and Michael
1787# Deckers (2018-02-20):
1788# ... At least they kept good records...
1789#
1790# http://www.armada.mil.uy/ContenidosPDFs/sohma/web/almanaque/almanaque_2018.pdf#page=36
1791# Page 36 of Almanaque 2018, published by the Oceanography, Hydrography, and
1792# Meteorology Service of the Uruguayan Navy, seems to give many transitions
1793# with greater clarity than we've had before.  It directly references many laws
1794# and decrees which are, in turn, referenced below.  They can be viewed in the
1795# public archives of the Diario Oficial (in Spanish) at
1796# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/
1797#
1798# Ley No. 3920 of 1908-06-10 placed the determination of legal time under the
1799# auspices of the National Institute for the Prediction of Time.  It is unclear
1800# exactly what offset was used during this period, though Ley No. 7200 of
1801# 1920-04-23 used the Observatory of the National Meteorological Institute in
1802# Montevideo (34° 54' 33" S, 56° 12' 45" W) as its reference meridian,
1803# retarding legal time by 15 minutes 9 seconds from 1920-04-30 24:00,
1804# resulting in UT-04.  Assume the corresponding LMT of UT-03:44:51 (given on
1805# page 725 of the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress,
1806# 1915-1916) was in use, and merely became official from 1908-06-10.
1807# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1908/06/18/12
1808# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1920/04/27/9
1809#
1810# Ley No. 7594 of 1923-06-28 specified legal time as Observatory time advanced
1811# by 44 minutes 51 seconds (UT-03) "from 30 September to 31 March", and by 14
1812# minutes 51 seconds (UT-03:30) "the rest of the year"; a message from the
1813# National Council of Administration the same day, published directly below the
1814# law in the Diario Oficial, specified the first transition to be 1923-09-30
1815# 24:00.  This effectively established standard time at UT-03:30 with 30
1816# minutes DST.  Assume transitions at 24:00 on the specified days until Ley No.
1817# 7919 of 1926-03-05 ended this arrangement, repealing all "laws and other
1818# provisions which oppose" it, resulting in year-round UT-03:30; a Resolución
1819# of 1926-03-11 puts the final transition at 1926-03-31 24:00, the same as it
1820# would have been under the previous law.
1821# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1923/07/02/2
1822# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/10/2
1823# https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1926/03/18/2
1824#
1825# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1826Rule	Uruguay	1923	1925	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
1827Rule	Uruguay	1924	1926	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	0	-
1828# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1829# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1933/10/27/6
1830#
1831# It appears Ley No. 9122 of 1933 was never published as such in the Diario
1832# Oficial, but instead appeared as Document 26 in the Diario on Friday
1833# 1933-10-27 as a decree made Monday 1933-10-23 and filed under the Ministry of
1834# National Defense.  It reinstituted a DST of 30 minutes (to UT-03) "from the
1835# last Sunday of October...until the last Saturday of March."  In accordance
1836# with this provision, the first transition was explicitly specified in Article
1837# 2 of the decree as Saturday 1933-10-28 at 24:00; that is, Sunday 1933-10-29
1838# at 00:00.  Assume transitions at 00:00 Sunday throughout.
1839#
1840# Departing from the matter-of-fact nature of previous timekeeping laws, the
1841# 1933 decree "consider[s] the advantages of...the advance of legal time":
1842#
1843#   "Whereas: The measure adopted by almost all nations at the time of the last
1844#    World War still persists in North America and Europe, precisely because of
1845#    the economic, hygienic, and social advantages derived from such an
1846#    emergency measure...
1847#
1848#    Whereas: The advance of the legal time during the summer seasons, by
1849#    displacing social activity near sunrise, favors the citizen populations
1850#    and especially the society that creates and works..."
1851#
1852# It further specified that "necessary measures" be taken to ensure that
1853# "public spectacles finish, in general, before [01:00]."
1854Rule	Uruguay	1933	1938	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0:30	-
1855Rule	Uruguay	1934	1941	-	Mar	lastSat	24:00	0	-
1856# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1857# Most of the Rules below, and their contemporaneous Zone lines, have been
1858# updated simply to match the Almanaque 2018.  Although the document does not
1859# list exact transition times, midnight transitions were already present in our
1860# data here for all transitions through 2004-09, and this is both consistent
1861# with prior transitions and verified in several decrees marked below between
1862# 1939-09 and 2004-09, wherein the relevant text was typically of the form:
1863#
1864#   "From 0 hours on [date], the legal time of the entire Republic will be...
1865#
1866#    In accordance with [the preceding], on [previous date] at 24 hours, all
1867#    clocks throughout the Republic will be [advanced/retarded] by..."
1868#
1869# It is possible that there is greater specificity to be found for the Rules
1870# below, but it is buried in no fewer than 40 different decrees individually
1871# referenced by the Almanaque for the period from 1939-09 to 2014-09.
1872# Four-fifths of these were promulgated less than two weeks before taking
1873# effect; more than half within a week and none more than 5 weeks.  Only the
1874# handful with comments below have been checked with any thoroughness.
1875Rule	Uruguay	1939	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
1876Rule	Uruguay	1940	only	-	Oct	27	 0:00	0:30	-
1877# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1878# Decreto 1145 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1941-07-26, specified
1879# UT-03 from Friday 1941-08-01 00:00, citing an "urgent...need to save fuel".
1880# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1941/08/04/1
1881Rule	Uruguay	1941	only	-	Aug	 1	 0:00	0:30	-
1882# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1883# Decreto 1866 of the Ministry of National Defense, dated 1942-12-09, specified
1884# further advancement (to UT-02:30) from Sunday 1942-12-13 24:00.  Since clocks
1885# never went back to UT-03:30 thereafter, this is modeled as advancing standard
1886# time by 30 minutes to UT-03, while retaining 30 minutes of DST.
1887# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1942/12/16/3
1888Rule	Uruguay	1942	only	-	Dec	14	 0:00	0:30	-
1889Rule	Uruguay	1943	only	-	Mar	14	 0:00	0	-
1890Rule	Uruguay	1959	only	-	May	24	 0:00	0:30	-
1891Rule	Uruguay	1959	only	-	Nov	15	 0:00	0	-
1892Rule	Uruguay	1960	only	-	Jan	17	 0:00	1:00	-
1893Rule	Uruguay	1960	only	-	Mar	 6	 0:00	0	-
1894Rule	Uruguay	1965	only	-	Apr	 4	 0:00	1:00	-
1895Rule	Uruguay	1965	only	-	Sep	26	 0:00	0	-
1896# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1897# Decreto 321/968 of 1968-05-25, citing emergency drought measures decreed the
1898# day before, brought clocks forward 30 minutes from Monday 1968-05-27 00:00.
1899# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1968/05/30/5
1900Rule	Uruguay	1968	only	-	May	27	 0:00	0:30	-
1901Rule	Uruguay	1968	only	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	0	-
1902# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1903# Decreto 188/970 of 1970-04-23 instituted restrictions on electricity
1904# consumption "as a consequence of the current rainfall regime in the country".
1905# Articles 13 and 14 advanced clocks by an hour from Saturday 1970-04-25 00:00.
1906# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1970/04/29/4
1907Rule	Uruguay	1970	only	-	Apr	25	 0:00	1:00	-
1908Rule	Uruguay	1970	only	-	Jun	14	 0:00	0	-
1909Rule	Uruguay	1972	only	-	Apr	23	 0:00	1:00	-
1910Rule	Uruguay	1972	only	-	Jul	16	 0:00	0	-
1911# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1912# Decreto 29/974 of 1974-01-11, citing "the international rise in the price of
1913# oil", advanced clocks by 90 minutes (to UT-01:30).  Decreto 163/974 of
1914# 1974-03-04 returned 60 of those minutes (to UT-02:30), and the remaining 30
1915# minutes followed in Decreto 679/974 of 1974-08-29.
1916# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/01/22/11
1917# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/03/14/3
1918# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1974/09/04/6
1919Rule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Jan	13	 0:00	1:30	-
1920Rule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Mar	10	 0:00	0:30	-
1921Rule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	0	-
1922Rule	Uruguay	1974	only	-	Dec	22	 0:00	1:00	-
1923Rule	Uruguay	1975	only	-	Mar	30	 0:00	0	-
1924Rule	Uruguay	1976	only	-	Dec	19	 0:00	1:00	-
1925Rule	Uruguay	1977	only	-	Mar	 6	 0:00	0	-
1926Rule	Uruguay	1977	only	-	Dec	 4	 0:00	1:00	-
1927Rule	Uruguay	1978	1979	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 0:00	0	-
1928Rule	Uruguay	1978	only	-	Dec	17	 0:00	1:00	-
1929Rule	Uruguay	1979	only	-	Apr	29	 0:00	1:00	-
1930Rule	Uruguay	1980	only	-	Mar	16	 0:00	0	-
1931# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1932# Decreto 725/987 of 1987-12-04 cited "better use of national tourist
1933# attractions" to advance clocks one hour from Monday 1987-12-14 00:00.
1934# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1988/01/25/1
1935Rule	Uruguay	1987	only	-	Dec	14	 0:00	1:00	-
1936Rule	Uruguay	1988	only	-	Feb	28	 0:00	0	-
1937Rule	Uruguay	1988	only	-	Dec	11	 0:00	1:00	-
1938Rule	Uruguay	1989	only	-	Mar	 5	 0:00	0	-
1939Rule	Uruguay	1989	only	-	Oct	29	 0:00	1:00	-
1940Rule	Uruguay	1990	only	-	Feb	25	 0:00	0	-
1941# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Paul Eggert (1999-11-04):
1942# IATA agrees as below for 1990-10 through 1993-02.  Per Almanaque 2018, the
1943# 1992/1993 season appears to be the first in over half a century where DST
1944# both began and ended pursuant to the same decree.
1945Rule	Uruguay	1990	1991	-	Oct	Sun>=21	 0:00	1:00	-
1946Rule	Uruguay	1991	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 0:00	0	-
1947Rule	Uruguay	1992	only	-	Oct	18	 0:00	1:00	-
1948Rule	Uruguay	1993	only	-	Feb	28	 0:00	0	-
1949# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
1950# The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
1951# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1952# Decreto 328/004 of 2004-09-15.
1953# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2004/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
1954Rule	Uruguay	2004	only	-	Sep	19	 0:00	1:00	-
1955# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
1956# Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to
1957# save energy ... it was postponed two weeks....
1958# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1959# This 2005 postponement is not in Almanaque 2018.  Go with the contemporaneous
1960# reporting, which is confirmed by Decreto 107/005 of 2005-03-10 amending
1961# Decreto 328/004:
1962# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/03/15/documentos.pdf#page=1
1963# The original decree specified a transition of 2005-03-12 24:00, but the new
1964# one specified 2005-03-27 02:00.
1965Rule	Uruguay	2005	only	-	Mar	27	 2:00	0	-
1966# From Eduardo Cota (2005-09-27):
1967# ...from 2005-10-09 at 02:00 local time, until 2006-03-12 at 02:00 local time,
1968# official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
1969# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1970# Decreto 318/005 of 2005-09-19.
1971# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2005/09/23/documentos.pdf#page=1
1972Rule	Uruguay	2005	only	-	Oct	 9	 2:00	1:00	-
1973Rule	Uruguay	2006	2015	-	Mar	Sun>=8	 2:00	0	-
1974# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15), per Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
1975# Decreto 311/006 of 2006-09-04 established regular DST from the first Sunday
1976# of October at 02:00 through the second Sunday of March at 02:00.  Almanaque
1977# 2018 appears to have a few typoed dates through this period; ignore them.
1978# http://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/2006/09/08/documentos.pdf#page=1
1979Rule	Uruguay	2006	2014	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00	1:00	-
1980# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
1981# ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
1982# http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
1983# http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
1984# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
1985# Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
1986# instead of out to dinner.
1987# From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
1988# http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
1989# From Tim Parenti (2018-02-15):
1990# Decreto 178/015 of 2015-06-29; repeals Decreto 311/006.
1991
1992# This Zone can be simplified once we assume zic %z.
1993Zone America/Montevideo	-3:44:51 -	LMT	1908 Jun 10
1994			-3:44:51 -	MMT	1920 May  1 # Montevideo MT
1995			-4:00	-	-04	1923 Oct  1
1996			-3:30	Uruguay	-0330/-03 1942 Dec 14
1997			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1960
1998			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02	1968
1999			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1970
2000			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02	1974
2001			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0130 1974 Mar 10
2002			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-0230 1974 Dec 22
2003			-3:00	Uruguay	-03/-02
2004
2005# Venezuela
2006#
2007# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
2008# For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
2009# http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
2010#
2011# From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
2012# ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
2013# been brought forward to 2007-12-09.  The official announcement was
2014# published today in the "Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana
2015# de Venezuela, número 38.819" (official document for all laws or
2016# resolution publication)
2017# http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=72208
2018
2019# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-04-15):
2020# https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/204758-venezuela-modificar-huso-horario-sequia-elnino
2021#
2022# From Paul Eggert (2016-04-15):
2023# Clocks advance 30 minutes on 2016-05-01 at 02:30....
2024# "'Venezuela's new time-zone: hours without light, hours without water,
2025# hours of presidential broadcasts, hours of lines,' quipped comedian
2026# Jean Mary Curró ...". See: Cawthorne A, Kai D. Venezuela scraps
2027# half-hour time difference set by Chavez. Reuters 2016-04-15 14:50 -0400
2028# https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-timezone-idUSKCN0XC2BE
2029#
2030# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-20):
2031# ... published in the official Gazette [2016-04-18], here:
2032# http://historico.tsj.gob.ve/gaceta_ext/abril/1842016/E-1842016-4551.pdf
2033
2034# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2035Zone	America/Caracas	-4:27:44 -	LMT	1890
2036			-4:27:40 -	CMT	1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
2037			-4:30	-	-0430	1965 Jan  1  0:00
2038			-4:00	-	-04	2007 Dec  9  3:00
2039			-4:30	-	-0430	2016 May  1  2:30
2040			-4:00	-	-04
2041