<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Larry Leung <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crealisiss@yahoo.com" target="_blank">crealisiss@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><font face="arial">Hi,</font><div><font face="arial"> with respect to 2012c south america. San Luis appears to have a zone/rule inconsistency. The latest zone indicates using rule SanLuis, but the rule is used only until 2009. For dates past 2009 is there consistency? </font></div>
<div><font face="arial"><br></font><div><div><font face="arial"># San Luis (SL)</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial">Rule SanLuis 2008 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 -</font></div>
<div><font face="arial">Rule SanLuis 2007 2009 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00
S</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial">Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><font face="arial">.</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><font face="arial">.</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><font face="arial">.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial"> -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Jan 21</font></div><div><font face="arial"> -4:00 SanLuis WAR%sT</font></div></div><div><font><br></font></div></div></td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><div>Well...</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how this is treated "by the book" (however, I know, at least in my linux's libc it 'just works').</div><div>
<br></div><div>To make a long story short, by 2009 Argentina stopped using DST and all of the country is at UTC-0300.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the San Luis Province call this "Western Argentina Daylight Savings Time" because they consider that WART is at UTC-0400 and they "got stuck" in WARST (at UTC-0300), whereas the rest of the country calls this Argentina Time at UTC-0300.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Rereading the southamerica source, I also notice there is no 'Arg' rule after 2009 but, since there are no invocation of any of these rules after 2008, I think it's just fine.</div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Mariano Absatz - El Baby<br><a href="http://www.clueless.com.ar" target="_blank">www.clueless.com.ar</a><br><br><br>