tzdata2008b.tar.gz

[José Miguel Parrella Romero]

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El 24/03/08 08:07, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] escribió:
| It's the season for changes, and I'm still hoping to get good
| documentation on what happened in Venezuela earlier this year, so expect
| a tzdata2008c.tar.gz fairly soon.

What exactly do you need? America/Caracas, the timezone for Venezuela,
changed to UTC-0430 on 2007-12-09 at 0700 UTC, as stated in decree-law
5693 [1] and as reflected on tzdata since 2007j.

There is some misleading information (dated August 2007) stating that
the timezone change was scheduled to happen on January 2008, but this
did not happen.

The official, yet maybe outdated source of information for the
Venezuelan time is the Servicio Hora Legal de Venezuela webpage, a
military-run service in Caracas [2] -- the last paragraphs before
"Servicios" state the timezone change "A finales del año 2007..."

Jose

[1]
http://www.pgr.gob.ve/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Acceso=T020700034566/1&Nombrebd=bibconsulta&ForReg=http://www.pgr.gob.ve/Recursos/goa2.htm&TiposDoc=S
[2] http://www.dhn.mil.ve/Hora/hora.html
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