# @(#)southamerica 7.27 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries # of the IATA's data after 1990. # # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, # and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. # # The following abbreviations are used in this file. # Corrections are welcome! # std dst # LMT Local Mean Time # -2:00 FST FDT Fernando de Noronha # -3:00 EST EDT Eastern Brazil # -4:00 WST WDT Western Brazil # -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic # -5:00 AST ADT Acre # # Earlier editions of these tables used the North American style (e.g. ARST and # ARDT for Argentine Standard and Daylight Time), but the following quote # suggests that it's better to use European style (e.g. ART and ARST). # I suggest the use of _Summer time_ instead of the more cumbersome # _daylight-saving time_. _Summer time_ seems to be in general use # in Europe and South America. # -- E O Cutler, _New York Times_ (1937-02-14), quoted in # H L Mencken, _The American Language: Supplement I_ (1960), p 466 # From Guy Harris: # From Official Airline Guide - Worldwide Edition (1987). Countries not # listed here do not observe DST, according to the OAG. Time zone names # are pure inventions, and none are supplied for countries not observing # DST; updates from natives would be appreciated. The times that DST # starts and ends are based on the assumption that they switch a 2AM just # as everybody else does. ############################################################################### ############################################################################### # Argentina # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # Argentina: first Sunday in October to first Sunday in April since 1976. # Double Summer time from 1969 to 1974. Switches at midnight. # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-199): # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table... # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Arg 1930 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1931 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1931 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1932 1940 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1932 1939 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1940 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1941 only - Jun 15 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1941 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1943 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1943 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1946 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1963 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1963 only - Dec 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1967 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1967 1968 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1968 1969 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1985 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1986 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1986 1987 - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1987 only - Feb 13 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1988 only - Feb 7 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S # # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina # (Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute) # # Shanks gives 1989 Mar 16 and stops after 1990 Mar 4; go with Otero. Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # # From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # # Buenos Aires (BA), Distrito Federal (DF), Santa Cruz (SC), # Tierra del Fuego (TF) & Antartida e Islas Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT # # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), # Formosa (FM), La Pampa (LP), Chubut (CH) Zone America/Rosario -4:02:40 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Jul -3:00 - ART # # Cordoba (CB), Santiago del Estero (SE), Salta (SA), Tucuman (TM), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ), San Luis (SL), # Neuquen (NQ), Rio Negro (RN) Zone America/Cordoba -4:16:44 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) Zone America/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 6 -4:00 1:00 WARST 1992 Mar 15 -4:00 - WART 1992 Oct 18 -3:00 - ART # # Catamarca (CT) Zone America/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - ART 1991 Jul -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1992 Jul -3:00 - ART # # Mendoza (MZ) Zone America/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Nov -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3 -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 15 -4:00 1:00 WARST 1992 Mar 1 -4:00 - WART 1992 Oct 18 -3:00 - ART # Aruba # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad -4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time -4:00 - AST # Bolivia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 -4:32:36 - LPMT 1931 Oct 15 # La Paz Mean Time -4:32:36 1:00 BOST 1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST -4:00 - BOT # Bolivia Time # Brazil # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade. # The rule change lasted only part of the day; # the federal government refused to follow the city's rules, and business # was in a chaos, so the mayor backed down that afternoon. # From IATA SSIM (1996-02): # _Only_ the following states in BR1 observe DST: Rio Grande do Sul (RS), # Santa Catarina (SC), Parana (PR), Sao Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), # Espirito Santo (ES), Minas Gerais (MG), Bahia (BA), Goias (GO), # Distrito Federal (DF), Tocantins (TO), Sergipe [SE] and Alagoas [AL]. # [The last three states are new to this issue of the IATA SSIM.] # From Gwillim Law (1996-10-07): # Geography, history (Tocantins was part of Goias until 1989), and other # sources of time zone information lead me to believe that AL, SE, and TO were # always in BR1, and so the only change was whether or not they observed DST.... # The earliest issue of the SSIM I have is 2/91. Each issue from then until # 9/95 says that DST is observed only in the ten states I quoted from 9/95, # along with Mato Grosso (MT) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), which are in BR2 # (UTC-4).... The other two time zones given for Brazil are BR3, which is # UTC-5, no DST, and applies only in the state of Acre (AC); and BR4, which is # UTC-2, and applies to Fernando de Noronha (formerly FN, but I believe it's # become part of the state of Pernambuco). The boundary between BR1 and BR2 # has never been clearly stated. They've simply been called East and West. # However, some conclusions can be drawn from another IATA manual: the Airline # Coding Directory, which lists close to 400 airports in Brazil. For each # airport it gives a time zone which is coded to the SSIM. From that # information, I'm led to conclude that the states of Amapa (AP), Ceara (CE), # Maranhao (MA), Paraiba (PR), Pernambuco (PE), Piaui (PI), and Rio Grande do # Norte (RN), and the eastern part of Para (PA) are all in BR1 without DST. # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # Let's make the following assumptions: # # * All data in Shanks are correct through 1990. In particular, # Shanks was right when he said Acre stopped observing DST in mid-1988. # * Areas where Shanks reports DST up to 1990, but the IATA reports no DST # in 1995, stopped observing DST in mid-1990. # # Under these assumptions Brazil needs 7 entries to cover all the distinct # time zone histories since 1970: # # Noronha (UTC-2), Fortaleza (UTC-3), and Manaus (UTC-4) stopped observing DST # in mid-1990. # Maceio (UTC-3) stopped observing DST in mid-1990, but started again mid-1995. # Sao Paulo (UTC-3) and Cuiaba (UTC-4) always observed DST. # Porto Acre (UTC-5) stopped observing DST in mid-1988. # From Rodrigo Feher (1998-01-17): # Reading "southamerica" file in timezone 7.55 I've found an # error. Line 193 say "Territory of Acre". It is not a territory anymore # but a state. # From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27): # # Brazilian official page # # # From Paul Eggert (1998-09-28): # The official decrees referenced below are taken from # # Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil # (1998-09-25, in Portuguese). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Decree 20,466 (1931-10-01) # Decree 21,896 (1932-01-10) Rule Brazil 1931 only - Oct 3 11:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1932 1933 - Apr 1 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1932 only - Oct 3 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 23,195 (1933-10-10) # revoked DST. # Decree 27,496 (1949-11-24) # Decree 27,998 (1950-04-13) Rule Brazil 1949 1952 - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1950 only - Apr 16 1:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1951 1952 - Apr 1 0:00 0 S # Decree 32,308 (1953-02-24) Rule Brazil 1953 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S # Decree 34,724 (1953-11-30) # revoked DST. # Decree 52,700 (1963-10-18) # established DST from 1963-10-23 00:00 to 1964-02-29 00:00 # in SP, RJ, GB, MG, ES, due to the prolongation of the drought. # Decree 53,071 (1963-12-03) # extended the above decree to all of the national territory on 12-09. Rule Brazil 1963 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 53,604 (1964-02-25) # extended summer time by one day to 1964-03-01 00:00 (start of school). Rule Brazil 1964 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S # Decree 55,639 (1965-01-27) Rule Brazil 1965 only - Jan 31 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1965 only - Mar 31 0:00 0 S # Decree 57,303 (1965-11-22) Rule Brazil 1965 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 57,843 (1966-02-18) Rule Brazil 1966 1968 - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1966 1967 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 63,429 (1968-10-15) # revoked DST. # Decree 91,698 (1985-09-27) Rule Brazil 1985 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 92,310 (1986-01-21) # Decree 92,463 (1986-03-13) Rule Brazil 1986 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S # Decree 93,316 (1986-10-01) Rule Brazil 1986 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1987 only - Feb 14 0:00 0 S # Decree 94,922 (1987-09-22) Rule Brazil 1987 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1988 only - Feb 7 0:00 0 S # Decree 96,676 (1988-09-12) # except for the states of AC, AM, PA, RR, RO, and AP (then a territory) Rule Brazil 1988 only - Oct 16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1989 only - Jan 29 0:00 0 S # Decree 98,077 (1989-08-21) # with the same exceptions Rule Brazil 1989 only - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1990 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 S # Decree 99,530 (1990-09-17) # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, GO, MS, DF. # Decree 99,629 (1990-10-19) adds BA, MT. Rule Brazil 1990 only - Oct 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1991 only - Feb 17 0:00 0 S # Unnumbered decree (1991-09-25) # adopted by RS, SC, PR, SP, RJ, ES, MG, BA, GO, MT, MS, DF. Rule Brazil 1991 only - Oct 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1992 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S # Unnumbered decree (1992-10-16) # adopted by same states. Rule Brazil 1992 only - Oct 25 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1993 only - Jan 31 0:00 0 S # Decree 942 (1993-09-28) # adopted by same states, plus AM. # Decree 1,252 (1994-09-22) # adopted by same states, minus AM. # Decree 1,636 (1995-09-14) # adopted by same states, plus TO. # Decree 1,674 (1995-10-13) # adds AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1993 1995 - Oct Sun>=11 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1994 1995 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 S # Decree 2,000 (1996-09-04) # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1997 only - Feb 16 0:00 0 S # From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12): # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS, # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit. # This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March 1 # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power. # # From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): # # Brazil Prepares for Papal Visit # , # Church Net UK (1997-10-02). # # Decree 2,317 (1997-09-04), adopted by same states. Rule Brazil 1997 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 D # Decree 2,495 # (1998-02-10) Rule Brazil 1998 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S # Decree 2,780 (1998-09-11) # adopted by the same states as before, # specifies only the 1998-10-11 and 1999-02-21 transitions; # after that, these rules are guesses and are quite possibly wrong, # but they are more likely than no DST at all. Rule Brazil 1998 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1999 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # # Fernando de Noronha Zone America/Noronha -2:09:40 - LMT 1914 -2:00 Brazil F%sT 1990 Jul -2:00 - FST # # Amapa, east Para Zone America/Belem -3:13:56 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1988 Jul -3:00 - EST # # Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, # Pernambuco (except Fernando de Noronha) Zone America/Fortaleza -2:34:00 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - EST # # Tocantins Zone America/Araguaina -3:12:48 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - EST 1995 Jul -3:00 Brazil E%sT # # Alagoas, Sergipe Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1990 Jul -3:00 - EST 1995 Jul -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1996 Jul -3:00 - EST # # Bahia, Goias, Distrito Federal, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, # Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil E%sT 1963 Oct 23 00:00 -3:00 - EDT 1964 -3:00 Brazil E%sT # # Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil W%sT 1990 Jul -4:00 - WST # # Roraima, west Para, Rondonia Zone America/Porto_Velho -4:15:36 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil W%sT 1988 Jul -4:00 - WST # # Amazonas Zone America/Manaus -4:00:04 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil W%sT 1988 Jul -4:00 - WST 1993 Jul -4:00 Brazil W%sT 1994 Jul -4:00 - WST # # Acre # Rio_Branco is too ambiguous, since there's a Rio Branco in Uruguay too. Zone America/Porto_Acre -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 -5:00 Brazil A%sT 1988 Jul -5:00 - AST # # Martin Vaz and Trinidade are like America/Noronha. # Chile # From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19): # The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY # of October.... The law is the same for March and October. # (1998-09-29): # Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into # DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ... # (unless there's another dry season next year, I guess). # From Julio I. Pacheco Troncoso (1999-03-18): # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later, # on April 3, (one-time change). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1969 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1970 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - # IATA SSIM anomalies: (1990-09) says 1990-09-16; (1992-02) says 1992-03-14; # (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these for now. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Santiago -4:42:40 - LMT 1890 -4:42:40 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep # Chile Time -4:00 Chile CL%sT Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri -7:17:28 - MMT 1932 Sep # Mataveri Mean Time -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT # # Whitman says Juan Fernandez Is are like America/Santiago. # San Ambrosio, San Felix # no information; probably like America/Santiago # Colombia # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule CO 1992 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S # Shanks (1995) estimates 1993-04-03 24:00 for this; go with IATA. Rule CO 1992 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Bogota -4:56:20 - LMT 1884 Mar 13 -4:56:20 - BMT 1914 Nov 23 # Bogota Mean Time -5:00 CO CO%sT # Colombia Time # Malpelo, Providencia, San Andres # no information; probably like America/Bogota # Curacao # Shanks (1995) says that Bottom and Oranjestad have been at -4:00 since # standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that Kralendijk and Rincon # used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. # This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Curacao -4:35:44 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad -4:30 - ANT 1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time -4:00 - AST # Ecuador # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Guayaquil -5:19:20 - LMT 1890 -5:14:00 - QMT 1931 # Quito Mean Time -5:00 - ECT # Ecuador Time Zone Pacific/Galapagos -5:58:24 - LMT 1931 # Puerto Baquerizo Moreno -5:00 - ECT 1986 -6:00 - GALT # Galapagos Time # Falklands # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Falk 1937 1938 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1938 1942 - Mar Sun>=19 0:00 0 - Rule Falk 1939 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1940 1942 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1943 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - Rule Falk 1983 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1984 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 0 - Rule Falk 1984 only - Sep 16 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1985 1995 - Sep Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S Rule Falk 1986 max - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 0 - Rule Falk 1996 max - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Stanley -3:51:24 - LMT 1890 -3:51:24 - SMT 1912 Mar 12 # Stanley Mean Time -4:00 Falk FK%sT 1983 May # Falkland Is Time -3:00 Falk FK%sT 1985 Sep 15 -4:00 Falk FK%sT # French Guiana # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Cayenne -3:29:20 - LMT 1911 Jul -4:00 - GFT 1967 Oct # French Guiana Time -3:00 - GFT # Guyana # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Guyana -3:52:40 - LMT 1915 Mar # Georgetown -3:45 - GBGT 1966 May 26 # Br Guiana Time -3:45 - GYT 1975 Jul 31 # Guyana Time -3:00 - GYT 1991 # IATA SSIM (1996-06) says -4:00. Assume a 1991 switch. -4:00 - GYT # Paraguay # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # Paraguay: First day in October to last in March. Midnight switch?? # Since 1980. # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): # PARAGUAY 4 H BEHIND UTC # PARAGUAY 3 H BEHIND UTC OCT 1, '88-MAR 31, '89 # From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Para 1975 1978 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1975 1978 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - # Shanks says 1979 was all DST. Rule Para 1980 1991 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Para 1980 1988 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1989 only - Oct 22 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1990 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1991 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1992 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule Para 1992 only - Oct 5 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1993 only - Mar 31 0:00 0 - Rule Para 1993 1995 - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1994 1995 - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - Rule Para 1996 1998 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - Rule Para 1996 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 1999 max - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 -3:50:40 - AMT 1931 Oct 10 # Asuncion Mean Time -4:00 - PYT 1972 Oct # Paraguay Time -3:00 - PYT 1974 Apr -4:00 Para PY%sT # Peru # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Peru 1938 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1938 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1939 1940 - Mar Sun>=24 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1987 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1987 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1990 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1990 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Peru 1993 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1993 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Lima -5:08:12 - LMT 1890 -5:09 - LMT 1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time -5:00 Peru PE%sT # Peru Time # South Georgia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/South_Georgia -2:26:08 - LMT 1890 # Grytviken -2:00 - GST # South Georgia Time # South Sandwich Is # uninhabited; scientific personnel have wintered # Suriname # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Paramaribo -3:40:40 - LMT 1911 -3:40:52 - PMT 1935 # Paramaribo Mean Time -3:40:36 - PMT 1945 Oct # The capital moved? -3:30 - NEGT 1975 Nov 20 # Dutch Guiana Time -3:30 - SRT 1984 Oct # Suriname Time -3:00 - SRT # Trinidad and Tobago # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST # Uruguay # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules. # From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Whitman gives 1923 Oct 1; go with Shanks. Rule Uruguay 1923 only - Oct 2 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1924 1926 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1933 1935 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS # Shanks gives 1935 Apr 1 0:00 and 1936 Mar 30 0:00; go with Whitman. Rule Uruguay 1934 1936 - Mar Sat>=25 23:30s 0 - Rule Uruguay 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1937 1941 - Mar lastSun 0:00 0 - # Whitman gives 1937 Oct 3; go with Shanks. Rule Uruguay 1937 1940 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS # Whitman gives 1941 Oct 24 - 1942 Mar 27, 1942 Dec 14 - 1943 Apr 13, # and 1943 Apr 13 ``to present time''; go with Shanks. Rule Uruguay 1941 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Jan 1 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1942 only - Dec 14 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1943 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1959 only - May 24 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1959 only - Nov 15 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1960 only - Jan 17 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1960 only - Mar 6 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1965 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1965 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1966 1967 - Oct 31 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1968 1970 - May 27 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1968 1970 - Dec 2 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1972 only - Apr 24 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1972 only - Aug 15 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Mar 10 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Uruguay 1974 only - Dec 22 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1976 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1977 only - Dec 4 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1978 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1979 only - Oct 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1980 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1987 only - Dec 14 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Mar 14 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1988 only - Dec 11 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Mar 12 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1989 only - Oct 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 S # Shanks's 4th edition (1995) says no DST was observed in 1990/1 and 1991/2, # and that 1992/3's DST was from 10-25 to 03-01. Go with IATA. Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT -3:30 Uruguay UY%sT 1942 Dec 14 # Uruguay Time -3:00 Uruguay UY%sT # Venezuela # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890 -4:27:44 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time -4:00 - VET