Changes in Argentina (or not)

Mon Jun 25 13:15:11 UTC 2001

Paul,

I'm sorry I didn't answer before... I've been in bed for about 10 days and I 
only check mail at work...

I understand what you say and your patch seems to be the most reasonable 
thing to do... anyway at the last moment, the time zone for Argentina didn't 
change yesterday (and it won't do so for the foreseeable future).

Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the 
Senate nulled the 1999 Law that introduced the changes later posponed.

http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm

It remains the vote of the Deputies (kinda "the House"), but it will be the 
same.

Sorry for the noise... but at least, I said in advance that this kind of 
things had allways been done this way in Argentina.

We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the Country.

El 20 Jun 2001, a las 16:42, Paul Eggert escribió:

> > From: "Mariano Absatz" <baby at baby.com.ar>
> > Date: 	Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:46:36 -0300
> 
> > I guess I'm being kind of redundant by stating the change in 
> > the Rule AND in the Zone lines...
> > 
> > Would it be the same if I don't use a specific Rule for the change on June  
> > 24th, make the Rule that changes the first Sunday of March start in 2001 
> > (i.e. last March) because the Zone line for every City would ignore this 
> > until June 24th, 2001?
> 
> An even more compact way is to modify the 1999/2000 rule so that it
> applies indefinitely.  Since the Zone lines disable it until June 24,
> it won't take effect until this October, which is what is wanted here.
> Here's a patch that I intend to send to tz shortly.  Please let me
> know if you see any problems with it.  And thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> 
> --- southamerica	2001/06/05 17:48:23	2001.3
> +++ southamerica	2001/06/20 23:36:08
> @@ -113,6 +113,6 @@ Rule	Arg	1989	1992	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	1:
>  # which did not result in the switch of a time zone, as they stayed 9 hours
>  # from the International Date Line.
> -Rule	Arg	1999	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
> -Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
> +Rule	Arg	1999	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
> +Rule	Arg	2000	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
>  #
>  # From Peter Gradelski via Steffen Thorsen (2000-03-01):
> @@ -126,4 +126,20 @@ Rule	Arg	2000	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
>  # in the winter time, rather than less.  The change took effect on March 3.
>  #
> +# From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06):
> +# one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999
> +# Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
> +# in effect.... The article is at
> +# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
> +# ... The Law itself is "Ley No 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
> +# 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21.  The official publication is at:
> +# http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
> +# Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
> +#
> +# (2001-06-12):
> +# the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday.
> +# Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th....
> +# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm
> +
> +#
>  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
>  #
> @@ -136,5 +152,6 @@ Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 -	LMT
>  			-3:00	Arg	AR%sT	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  #
>  # Santa Fe (SF), Entre Rios (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC),
> @@ -147,5 +164,6 @@ Zone America/Rosario	-4:02:40 -	LMT	1894
>  			-3:00	-	ART	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  #
>  # Cordoba (CB), Santiago del Estero (SE), Salta (SA), Tucuman (TM), La Rioja (LR), San Juan (SJ)
, San Luis (SL),
> @@ -158,5 +176,6 @@ Zone America/Cordoba	-4:16:44 -	LMT	1894
>  			-3:00	-	ART	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  #
>  # Jujuy (JY)
> @@ -171,5 +190,6 @@ Zone America/Jujuy	-4:21:12 -	LMT	1894 N
>  			-3:00	-	ART	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  #
>  # Catamarca (CT)
> @@ -183,5 +203,6 @@ Zone America/Catamarca	-4:23:08 -	LMT	18
>  			-3:00	-	ART	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  #
>  # Mendoza (MZ)
> @@ -196,5 +217,6 @@ Zone America/Mendoza	-4:35:16 -	LMT	1894
>  			-3:00	-	ART	1999 Oct  3 0:00
>  			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT	2000 Mar  3 0:00
> -			-3:00	-	ART
> +			-3:00	-	ART	2001 Jun 24 0:00
> +			-4:00	Arg	AR%sT
>  
>  # Aruba
> 

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