Argentina DST blues
Mariano Absatz - El Baby
baby at baby.com.ar
Fri Oct 17 12:51:58 UTC 2008
Petr Machata escribió el 17/10/08 09:25:
> Mariano Absatz - El Baby wrote:
>> Here's a patch (against 2008h) which does what I say...
>
>> diff -ur tzdata2008h/southamerica tzdata2008h-proposed_baby/southamerica
>> --- tzdata2008h/southamerica 2008-10-08 09:46:17.000000000 -0300
>> +++ tzdata2008h-proposed_baby/southamerica 2008-10-16
>> 18:48:52.000000000 -0300
>> @@ -388,7 +388,8 @@
>> -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
>> -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1
>> -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20
>> - -3:00 Arg AR%sT
>> + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19
>> + -3:00 Arg ART
>
> This still schedules La Rioja for DST, it just drops "S" from timezone
> abbreviation. The same mistake is with San Juan and Catamarca.
You're right!! Thanx for looking at it and showing it...
I'm just showing my own inabilities and misunderstandings about the tz
file format :-(
>
>> #
>> # Jujuy (JY)
>> Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
>> @@ -415,9 +417,10 @@
>> -3:00 1:00 ARST 1992
>> -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3
>> -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
>> - -3:00 Arg AR%sT
>> + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 19
>> + -3:00 Arg ART
>
> I thought Jujuy was expected to introduce DST, so why this change?
The papers today say that the Legislature of Jujuy asked the Governor
not to apply DST (see my previous message)... I'm guessing this will
pass thru... but this has become harder than playing roulette at the
casino (or the stock market)...
>
>> #
>> # Mendoza (MZ)
>> Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
>> @@ -445,7 +449,8 @@
>> -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3
>> -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23
>> -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26
>> - -3:00 Arg AR%sT
>> + -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Oct 17
>> + -4:00 1:00 WARST
>
> I guess this hunk is related to this:
>
>> It says that Mendoza will use UTC-03:00 and UTC-04:00... and that the
>> Provincial Executive Branch (the Governor) has the power to establish
>> which one will be in effect and when... (along the same lines as the
>> National Law, but with different time zones)...
>
>> So, it's reasonable to think that at least until March 2009, Mendoza
>> will keep using UTC-03:00, however, I think we should say that
>> Mendoza is actually observing DST from its now standard WART (that
>> is, it is at WARST, which is the same as ART)... am I right? Or is it
>> just to messy?
>
> So are they actually in WART zone? Seems to me that the bylaw just
> allows the governor to pick more suitable zone, so I'm inclined to
> leave them in -3 and just wait for a magazine article to show up with
> definitive answer. (But honestly I have no idea if the -4:00/1:00 is
> some kind of idiom, maybe it suits exactly this kind of situation.)
Not an idiom but another stupid mistake on my part...
Let's see if the one I'm attaching now is somehow better... gonna leave
for work... I dunno when (or if) I'll have more time for this today...
I also uploaded a tz file for Argentina with this info at
http://wiki.clueless.com.ar/ActualizarTimezonesConTzdata?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=argentina-baby-2008-10-16.zoneinfo
There are instructions (in Spanish) to download and compile it at
http://wiki.clueless.com.ar/ActualizarTimezonesConTzdata#parche_baby_2008_10
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Mariano Absatz - "El Baby"
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