FW: Patch for timezone in Chile

[Arthur David Olson]

(I'm forwarding this message from Germán Poó-Caamaño since mail to
tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov isn't working for the moment. Please send time zone
messages to olsona at mail.nih.gov for now and I'll forward them.)

				--ado

From:	Germán Poó-Caamaño [gpoo at ubiobio.cl]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:12 PM
To:	Arthur David Olson
Cc:	Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
Subject:	Patch for timezone in Chile
Attachments:	chile_dst.diff

I sent a patch to tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov a couple of days ago.

It seems it ha had having problems. Anyway, it had a mistake. 
So, here there is a new one. It has the link to the Supreme 
Decree available at SHOA site (the Navy Division in charge 
officially of the chilean time).

Regards,

--
Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile

--- southamerica        2008-03-04 14:00:04.000000000 +0100
+++ southamerica        2008-03-04 14:02:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -759,6 +759,15 @@
 # America/Santiago.  The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data are dubious,
 # but we have no other source.
 
+# From German Poo-Caaman~o (2008-03-03):
+# Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks.  This
+# is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
+# and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
+# The Supreme Decree is located at 
+# http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
+# and the instructions for 2008 are located in:
+# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm.
+
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 Rule   Chile   1927    1932    -       Sep      1      0:00    1:00    S
 Rule   Chile   1928    1932    -       Apr      1      0:00    0       -
@@ -789,7 +798,9 @@
 Rule   Chile   1998    only    -       Sep     27      4:00u   1:00    S
 Rule   Chile   1999    only    -       Apr      4      3:00u   0       -
 Rule   Chile   1999    max     -       Oct     Sun>=9  4:00u   1:00    S
-Rule   Chile   2000    max     -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
+Rule   Chile   2000    2007    -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
+Rule   Chile   2008    only    -       Mar     29      3:00u   0       -
+Rule   Chile   2009    max     -       Mar     Sun>=9  3:00u   0       -
 # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
 # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08.  Ignore these.
 # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]