DST law derogation in Argentina
Fabián L. Arce Jofré
fabian at limite.yi.org
Tue Apr 4 03:52:49 UTC 2000
Hello, my name is Fabián L. Arce Jofré, and I'm from Argentina, and this e-mail message is for tell you about the time zone change in Argentina recently -- the law that established DST was derogated recently due to an evaluation of the government about more waste of energy than before.
I cut the Argentina part in the southamerica file and send it separately, I think it's the best way.
I corrected the time zone data and the name of a district, Distrito Federal (DF) for Capital Federal (CF), the correct name in Argentina.
If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to mail me at farcejofre at bigfoot.com.
Sincerely,
Fabián L. Arce Jofré
Buenos Aires, Argentina
farcejofre at bigfoot.com
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# 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 <hernan at isoft.com.ar> (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>=1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Arg 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 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>=1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Arg 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=1 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 <hernan at isoft.com.ar> (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 stops after 1992-03-01; 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 <hernan at isoft.com.ar> (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.
#
# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
# On October 3, 1999, 0:00 local, Argentina implemented daylight savings time,
# which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
# from the International Date Line. On March 5, 2000, at 0:00 local time,
# Argentina will come off daylight savings time, which will bring them to 8
# hours from the International Date Line.
Rule Arg 1999 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 -
#
# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre <farcejofre at bigfoot.com> (2000-04-04):
# The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando
# de la Rua on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy
# in the winter time, rather than less. The change took effect on March 3,
# 2000.
# So it's back to the "old" GMT-0300 timezone.
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
# Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), Santa Cruz (SC),
# Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur (TF)
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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-3:00 - ART
#
# 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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-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 1999 Oct 3 0:00
-4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 0:00
-3:00 - ART
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