[tz] Philippines may do off-and-on DST starting November

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Aug 14 20:36:14 UTC 2014


Last week Philippine House Deputy Minority Leader Arnel Ty urged 
President Aquino to declare daylight saving time from November to 
January and again from March to June, in an attempt to save electrical 
power.  We had some obsolete commentary about a failed attempt to do 
something similar in 2006, and the attached commentary patch (installed 
in the experimental version) does some housekeeping in this area.
-------------- next part --------------
From 0a5fcf8d0da663183a30f9dd639c8cb9a551d7eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:32:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * asia, NEWS: Update Philippines commentary.

---
 NEWS |  2 ++
 asia | 15 ++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8670c3a..57074b3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Some broken URLs have been fixed in the commentary.  (Thanks to
     Lester Caine.)
 
+    Commentary about Philippines DST has been updated.
+
 
 Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700
 
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 5eba52a..39daf23 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -2405,19 +2405,20 @@ Zone	Asia/Hebron	2:20:23	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 # http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm
 # The rest of the data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger.
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
-# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of
-# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the
-# rainy season begins.  See
-# http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006
-# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details.
-#
 # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
 # ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990:
 # http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/
 # [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires,
 # but no details]
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-14):
+# The following source says DST may be instituted November-January and again
+# March-June, but this is not definite.  It also says DST was last proclaimed
+# during the Ramos administration (1992-1998); but again, no details.
+# Carcamo D. PNoy urged to declare use of daylight saving time.
+# Philippine Star 2014-08-05
+# http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/08/05/1354152/pnoy-urged-declare-use-daylight-saving-time
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Phil	1937	only	-	Feb	1	0:00	0	-
-- 
1.9.1


More information about the tz mailing list