--- a/components/timezone/southamerica Thu Oct 30 05:32:45 2014 -0700
+++ b/components/timezone/southamerica Thu Oct 30 09:08:58 2014 -0700
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
-# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
+# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
-# [email protected] for general use in the future).
+# [email protected] for general use in the future). For more, please see
+# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
@@ -11,8 +12,8 @@
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
#
# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
-# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
-# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
+# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
+# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
#
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
@@ -187,8 +188,8 @@
# So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
# From Mariano Absatz (2008-10-20):
-# Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST in Argentina
-# From 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15
+# Decree 1693/2008 applies Law 26.350 for the summer 2008/2009 establishing DST
+# in Argentina from 2008-10-19 until 2009-03-15.
# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=16102008&pi=3&pf=4&s=0&sec=01
#
@@ -197,14 +198,16 @@
# Pampa, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego
# http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContent.aspx?fp=17102008&pi=1&pf=1&s=0&sec=01
#
-# Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the Province of Jujuy saying
-# it will not apply DST either (even when it was not included in Decree 1705/2008)
+# Press release 235 dated Saturday October 18th, from the Government of the
+# Province of Jujuy saying it will not apply DST either (even when it was not
+# included in Decree 1705/2008).
# http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc
# From fullinet (2009-10-18):
# As announced in
# http://www.argentina.gob.ar/argentina/portal/paginas.dhtml?pagina=356
-# (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora" (english: "No hour change")
+# (an official .gob.ar) under title: "Sin Cambio de Hora"
+# (English: "No hour change").
#
# "Por el momento, el Gobierno Nacional resolvió no modificar la hora
# oficial, decisión que estaba en estudio para su implementación el
@@ -225,9 +228,9 @@
# It's Law No. 7,210. This change is due to a public power emergency, so for
# now we'll assume it's for this year only.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Hora de verano para la Republica Argentina (2003-06-08)
-# <http://www.spicasc.net/horvera.html>
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-09):
+# Hora de verano para la República Argentina
+# http://buenasiembra.com.ar/esoterismo/astrologia/hora-de-verano-de-la-republica-argentina-27.html
# says that standard time in Argentina from 1894-10-31
# to 1920-05-01 was -4:16:48.25. Go with this more-precise value
# over Shanks & Pottenger.
@@ -300,7 +303,7 @@
# confirms that upon request the provinces San Juan and Mendoza
# refused to follow San Luis in this change.
#
-# The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21.st at 0:00
+# The change is supposed to take place Monday the 21st at 0:00
# hours. As far as I understand it if this goes ahead, we need
# a new timezone for San Luis (although there are also documented
# independent changes in the southamerica file of San Luis in
@@ -332,9 +335,9 @@
# back in 2004, when these provinces changed to UTC-4 for a few days, I
# mailed them personally and never got an answer).
-# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
-# Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks & Pottenger through 1992,
-# from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
+# Unless otherwise specified, data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger through
+# 1992, from the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks & Pottenger say that
# America/Cordoba split into 6 subregions during 1991/1992, one of which
# was America/San_Luis, but we haven't verified this yet so for now we'll
# keep America/Cordoba a single region rather than splitting it into the
@@ -394,7 +397,7 @@
# ...
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-09):
-# According to news reports from El Diario de la Republica Province San
+# According to news reports from El Diario de la República Province San
# Luis, Argentina (standard time UTC-04) will keep Daylight Saving Time
# after April 11, 2010 - will continue to have same time as rest of
# Argentina (UTC-3) (no DST).
@@ -414,7 +417,7 @@
# Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4
# with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to
# just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example,
-# <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina>.
+# http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina
# We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to
# standard time, so let's do that here too. This does not change UTC
# offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations. One minor
@@ -427,8 +430,8 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF),
-Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
- -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
+Zone America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+ -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
-4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
@@ -578,8 +581,8 @@
-3:00 - ART
#
# Santa Cruz (SC)
-Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
- -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
+Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+ -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
-4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
@@ -590,8 +593,8 @@
-3:00 - ART
#
# Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur (TF)
-Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
- -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
+Zone America/Argentina/Ushuaia -4:33:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
+ -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Córdoba Mean Time
-4:00 - ART 1930 Dec
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
-3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
@@ -685,7 +688,7 @@
# Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
# effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
#
-# a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the
+# a) The timezone UTC+5 is extinguished, with all the Acre state and the
# part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the
# timezone UTC+4
# b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just
@@ -722,8 +725,8 @@
# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
# The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
-# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil
-# <http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html>.
+# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
+# http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html
# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29):
# As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late
@@ -986,7 +989,7 @@
# West Pará includes Altamira, Óbidos, Prainha, Oriximiná, and Santarém.
Zone America/Santarem -3:38:48 - LMT 1914
-4:00 Brazil AM%sT 1988 Sep 12
- -4:00 - AMT 2008 Jun 24 00:00
+ -4:00 - AMT 2008 Jun 24 0:00
-3:00 - BRT
#
# Maranhão (MA), Piauí (PI), Ceará (CE), Rio Grande do Norte (RN),
@@ -1041,7 +1044,7 @@
# Espírito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), Paraná (PR),
# Santa Catarina (SC), Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914
- -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1963 Oct 23 00:00
+ -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1963 Oct 23 0:00
-3:00 1:00 BRST 1964
-3:00 Brazil BR%sT
#
@@ -1082,14 +1085,14 @@
-5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12
-5:00 - ACT 1993 Sep 28
-5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1994 Sep 22
- -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 00:00
+ -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 0:00
-4:00 - AMT 2013 Nov 10
-5:00 - ACT
#
# Acre (AC)
Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
-5:00 Brazil AC%sT 1988 Sep 12
- -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 00:00
+ -5:00 - ACT 2008 Jun 24 0:00
-4:00 - AMT 2013 Nov 10
-5:00 - ACT
@@ -1117,12 +1120,12 @@
# (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16 respectively), but
# anyhow it clears up some doubts too.
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-27):
-# The following data for Chile and America/Santiago are from
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
+# The following data entries for Chile and America/Santiago are from
# <http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm> (2006-09-20), transcribed by
-# Jesper Nørgaard Welen. The data for Pacific/Easter are from Shanks
+# Jesper Nørgaard Welen. The data entries for Pacific/Easter are from Shanks
# & Pottenger, except with DST transitions after 1932 cloned from
-# America/Santiago. The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data are dubious,
+# America/Santiago. The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data entries are dubious,
# but we have no other source.
# From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
@@ -1146,10 +1149,10 @@
#
# This is breaking news. There should be more information available later.
-# From Arthur Daivd Olson (2010-03-06):
+# From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
# Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
-# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02): [[email protected]]
+# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02):
# It appears that the Chilean government has decided to postpone the
# change from summer time to winter time again, by three weeks to April
# 2nd:
@@ -1250,7 +1253,7 @@
# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890
- -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time
+ -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time
-5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time
-4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time
-4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time
@@ -1259,7 +1262,7 @@
-4:00 Chile CL%sT
Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890
-7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time
- -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter I Time
+ -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter Time
-6:00 Chile EAS%sT
#
# Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
@@ -1300,7 +1303,7 @@
# though, as far as we know.
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
+Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
-4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time
-4:00 - AST
@@ -1325,10 +1328,10 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Guayaquil -5:19:20 - LMT 1890
-5:14:00 - QMT 1931 # Quito Mean Time
- -5:00 - ECT # Ecuador Time
+ -5:00 - ECT # Ecuador Time
Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
-5:00 - ECT 1986
- -6:00 - GALT # Galápagos Time
+ -6:00 - GALT # Galápagos Time
# Falklands
@@ -1427,10 +1430,10 @@
Rule Falk 2001 2010 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Atlantic/Stanley -3:51:24 - LMT 1890
- -3:51:24 - SMT 1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
- -4:00 Falk FK%sT 1983 May # Falkland Is Time
+ -3:51:24 - SMT 1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time
+ -4:00 Falk FK%sT 1983 May # Falkland Is Time
-3:00 Falk FK%sT 1985 Sep 15
- -4:00 Falk FK%sT 2010 Sep 5 02:00
+ -4:00 Falk FK%sT 2010 Sep 5 2:00
-3:00 - FKST
# French Guiana
@@ -1441,7 +1444,7 @@
# Guyana
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Guyana -3:52:40 - LMT 1915 Mar # Georgetown
+Zone America/Guyana -3:52:40 - LMT 1915 Mar # Georgetown
-3:45 - GBGT 1966 May 26 # Br Guiana Time
-3:45 - GYT 1975 Jul 31 # Guyana Time
-3:00 - GYT 1991
@@ -1478,8 +1481,8 @@
# (10-01).
#
# Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from
-# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01)
-# <http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm>:
+# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01):
+# http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm
# Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in
# fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power.... The time change
# system has been operating for several years. Formerly there was a separate
@@ -1506,7 +1509,7 @@
# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05):
# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05)
# From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13)
-# <http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf>
+# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf
Rule Para 2004 2009 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Para 2005 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18):
@@ -1538,7 +1541,7 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890
-3:50:40 - AMT 1931 Oct 10 # Asunción Mean Time
- -4:00 - PYT 1972 Oct # Paraguay Time
+ -4:00 - PYT 1972 Oct # Paraguay Time
-3:00 - PYT 1974 Apr
-4:00 Para PY%sT
@@ -1571,7 +1574,7 @@
# South Georgia
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 - LMT 1890 # Grytviken
+Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 - LMT 1890 # Grytviken
-2:00 - GST # South Georgia Time
# South Sandwich Is
@@ -1581,9 +1584,9 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Paramaribo -3:40:40 - LMT 1911
-3:40:52 - PMT 1935 # Paramaribo Mean Time
- -3:40:36 - PMT 1945 Oct # The capital moved?
+ -3:40:36 - PMT 1945 Oct # The capital moved?
-3:30 - NEGT 1975 Nov 20 # Dutch Guiana Time
- -3:30 - SRT 1984 Oct # Suriname Time
+ -3:30 - SRT 1984 Oct # Suriname Time
-3:00 - SRT
# Trinidad and Tobago
@@ -1657,7 +1660,7 @@
Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 -
# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20):
-# The uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
+# The Uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time....
# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm
Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep 19 0:00 1:00 S
# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11):
@@ -1677,8 +1680,8 @@
Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28
- -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT
- -3:30 Uruguay UY%sT 1942 Dec 14 # Uruguay Time
+ -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT
+ -3:30 Uruguay UY%sT 1942 Dec 14 # Uruguay Time
-3:00 Uruguay UY%sT
# Venezuela
@@ -1694,6 +1697,6 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890
-4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
- -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time
- -4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 03:00
+ -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time
+ -4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 3:00
-4:30 - VET