<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:39 AM, <a href="mailto:richard_gombert@goodyear.com">richard_gombert@goodyear.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I just found out that Chile will be going
on Daylight Savings Time This coming weekend. </font>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I looked back through this discussion
group and I found no previous discussion of this.</font>
<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font size="3">Sunday, August 21, 2011 at <b>12:00:00 Midnight</b> clocks
are turned <b>forward</b> 1 hour to <br>
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at <b>1:00:00 AM</b> local daylight time instead
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">According to the patch applied earlier
this year it was (originally) scheduled for October 9, 2011.</font>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div>This was discussed (by me!) sometime around late March when the change was made; I submitted a patch which was accepted at that time which changed the DST off time to May and the DST on time to August. From the current file (tzdata2011h):</div><div><br></div><div><div>Rule<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chile<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1999<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Oct<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sun>=9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4:00u<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>S</div><div>Rule<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chile<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2011<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>only<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Aug<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sun>=16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4:00u<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>S</div><div>Rule<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chile<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2012<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>max<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Oct<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sun>=9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4:00u<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>S</div><div><br></div><div><div>America/Santiago Sun Apr 4 02:59:59 2010 UTC = Sat Apr 3 23:59:59 2010 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Apr 4 03:00:00 2010 UTC = Sat Apr 3 23:00:00 2010 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Oct 10 03:59:59 2010 UTC = Sat Oct 9 23:59:59 2010 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Oct 10 04:00:00 2010 UTC = Sun Oct 10 01:00:00 2010 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div><div>America/Santiago Sun May 8 02:59:59 2011 UTC = Sat May 7 23:59:59 2011 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div><div>America/Santiago Sun May 8 03:00:00 2011 UTC = Sat May 7 23:00:00 2011 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Aug 21 03:59:59 2011 UTC = Sat Aug 20 23:59:59 2011 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Aug 21 04:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Aug 21 01:00:00 2011 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Mar 11 02:59:59 2012 UTC = Sat Mar 10 23:59:59 2012 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2012 UTC = Sat Mar 10 23:00:00 2012 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Oct 14 03:59:59 2012 UTC = Sat Oct 13 23:59:59 2012 CLT isdst=0 gmtoff=-14400</div><div>America/Santiago Sun Oct 14 04:00:00 2012 UTC = Sun Oct 14 01:00:00 2012 CLST isdst=1 gmtoff=-10800</div></div><div><br></div><div>We still have no word on what's going to happen next year.</div><div><br></div><div>-G.</div></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>--</div><div>Glenn Eychaner (<a href="mailto:geychaner@lco.cl">geychaner@lco.cl</a>)</div><div>Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory</div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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