[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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