[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] Simplify new Turks & Caicos rules.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Aug 19 08:24:26 UTC 2014


* northamerica (TC): Remove, as it's now a duplicate of the US rules.
Remove obsolescent comment about this.
(America/Grand_Turk): Use US rather than TC.
---
 northamerica | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 4c1d4bd..ebfe5e3 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -3113,25 +3113,16 @@ Zone America/Miquelon	-3:44:40 -	LMT	1911 May 15 # St Pierre
 # Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time"
 # indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
 #
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-01):
-# Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998)
-# says they switch at midnight.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-#
 # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19):
 # The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round.  See:
 # http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm
 # Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00.
 #
-# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-Rule	TC	1979	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
-Rule	TC	1979	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
-Rule	TC	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
-Rule	TC	2007	2014	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
-Rule	TC	2007	2014	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone America/Grand_Turk	-4:44:32 -	LMT	1890
 			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-			-5:00	TC	E%sT	2014 Nov  2  2:00
+			-5:00	-	EST	1979
+			-5:00	US	E%sT	2014 Nov  2  2:00
 			-4:00	-	AST
 
 # British Virgin Is
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