[tz] Chile will keep UTC -3 all year round indefinitely
Tim Parenti
tim at timtimeonline.com
Wed Jan 28 18:56:58 UTC 2015
Proposed patch for Chile attached.
Tim Parenti
On 28 Jan 2015 11:35, Juan Correa wrote:
> You are right: 24Horas.cl wrote the timezones for Chile would be
> unified at the time I wrote the message
>
> The press release has been just published on the Ministry website
> (http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html),
> and it clarifies the following points:
>
> - Chile will drop DST indefinitely
> - There will be 2 timezones: America/Santiago on UTC -3, and
> Pacific/Easter on UTC -5
>
> As I pointed before, there's no decree published yet; but probably
> this measure will be enforced from this year
>
> 2015-01-28 13:07 GMT-03:00 Gwillim Law <gwillim at gmail.com
> <mailto:gwillim at gmail.com>>:
>
> When I looked at the first source, the text had changed. Now it
> says, "'El Gobierno ha decidido mantener en forma indefinida un
> horario único en Chile cntinental e insular', dijo el secretario
> de Estado. De esta manera, la zona horaria permanente será GMT-3
> en el continente y de GMT-5 en territorio insular." The second
> sentence translates, "In this way, the permanent time zone will be
> GMT-3 on the continent and GMT-5 in the insular territory."
>
> The change probably represents a clarification. The phrase
> "horario único" could refer to the contrast between the island
> areas and the continent, but it could equally well refer to the
> contrast between the use and the non-use of daylight saving time.
> I think it's the latter.
>
> Gwillim Law
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Juan Correa <pottersys at gmail.com
> <mailto:pottersys at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> -
> http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2015/01/28/301742/El-horario-de-verano-regira-todo-el-ano.aspx
>
> "El ministro de Energía, Máximo Pacheco, anunció la suspensión
> del cambio de horario, por lo que durante todo el año regirá
> el horario de verano.
>
> "El Gobierno ha decidido mantener en forma indefinida un
> horario único en Chile Continental e Insular", dijo el
> secretario de Estado, enfatizando "que esta medida va a ayudar
> a mejorar la calidad de vida de los chilenos y a ser un mejor
> uso de la energía"."
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Juan Correa Poblete
> PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/attachments/20150128/836488a7/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
From bf6242b745a58c61bd56955a175c9a014e171dad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:53:17 -0500
Subject: Chile plans to maintain its summer offsets year-round.
* southamerica (America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter): Model this as a
shift in the standard time zone effective 2015-04-26 03:00 UTC, when
the clocks would otherwise change.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
southamerica | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b6b94a7..904e9a7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
will shift from Central Time with DST to Eastern Time without DST
on 2015-02-01 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Gwillim Law.)
+ Chile plans to maintain its summer offsets of UTC-3 for America/Santiago
+ and UTC-5 for Pacific/Easter year-round. Model this as a change to the
+ standard time effective 2015-04-26 at 03:00 UTC, when the clocks would
+ otherwise change. (Thanks to Juan Correa Poblete and Gwillim Law.)
+
New leap second 2015-06-30 23:59:60 UTC as per IERS Bulletin C 49.
(Thanks to Tim Parenti.)
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index bdc29c2..b9eb4e8 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1209,6 +1209,20 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
# 'antarctica' file.
+# From Juan Correa Poblete (2015-01-28):
+# Today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep
+# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round.
+#
+# http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2015/01/28/301742/El-horario-de-verano-regira-todo-el-ano.aspx
+# "El Gobierno ha decidido mantener en forma indefinida un horario único en
+# Chile cntinental e insular", dijo el secretario de Estado. De esta manera, la
+# zona horaria permanente será GMT-3 en el continente y de GMT-5 en territorio
+# insular.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2015-01-28):
+# Model this as a change in standard time, effective when the clocks would
+# otherwise shift, at 2015-04-26 03:00 UTC.
+
# 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 -
@@ -1247,8 +1261,8 @@ Rule Chile 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
+Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
+Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
# IATA SSIM anomalies: (1992-02) says 1992-03-14;
# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -1259,11 +1273,13 @@ Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890
-4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time
-4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time
-5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time
- -4:00 Chile CL%sT
+ -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -3:00 - CLT
Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890
-7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time
-7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 21:00 # Easter Time
- -6:00 Chile EAS%sT
+ -6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -5:00 - EAST
#
# Salas y Gómez Island is uninhabited.
# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
--
2.1.4
More information about the tz
mailing list