[tz] [PROPOSED] Adjust official transition for Turks & Caicos
J William Piggott
elseifthen at gmx.com
Sat Aug 26 18:35:19 UTC 2017
On 08/26/2017 03:56 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> * NEWS: Adjust.
> * northamerica (America/Grand_Turk):
> Switch 2018-03-11 03:00, not 2018-04-01.
> ---
> NEWS | 2 +-
> northamerica | 8 +++++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 0909112..55c06f7 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
> at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
>
> Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on
> - 2018-04-01 at 00:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04
> + 2018-03-11 at 03:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04
> at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
>
> Changes to past time stamps
> diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
> index 42529de..93655fa 100644
> --- a/northamerica
> +++ b/northamerica
> @@ -3390,12 +3390,18 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre
> # Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ...
> # https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3
> #
> +# From Paul Eggert (2018-08-26):
^
s/2018/2017/
> +# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11,
> +# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back
> +# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2018-08-25.
^
s/2018/2017/
> +# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/
> +#
> # 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 - EST 1979
> -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00
> - -4:00 - AST 2018 Apr
> + -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00
> -5:00 US E%sT
>
> # British Virgin Is
>
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