FW: Re: Chile extends DST due to drought

[Arthur David Olson]

Since tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov is currently failing, I'm forwarding this message from Sean Coffey to the time zone mailing list.

For now, please send time zone messages to olsona at mail.nih.gov. Thanks!

				--ado

From:	Sean Coffey [Sean.Coffey at Sun.COM]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:00 AM
To:	Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
Subject:	Re: Chile extends DST due to drought

Hi all,

This Chile DST extension/change would appear to be going 
ahead.

http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/chile-extends-daylight-
saving-time.html 

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=232
http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/noticias_det/?which=10062

Are there plans to release a tzdata update soon?

regards,
Sean.

Gunther Vermeir wrote:
> Hello,
> I received this information from a colleague in the Oracle 
office in
> Chili:
>
> There is a announcement on
> http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/noticias_det/?which=10062
> This article is published in the official page of the 
Government and 
> states that the Ministry of Energy announced the change in 
DST. Now, 
> in order for it to become completely official it has to be 
published 
> in 'Diario Official'. All decrees and resolutions become 
official when 
> are published here (www.diariooficial.cl).
>
> From the moment I have more information I will forward it.
>
> Regards,
> Gunther
>
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> The Associated Press reports that yesterday Chile announced 
it will 
>> extend DST this year due to a drought, until the last 
Saturday in 
>> March.  Does anybody have details?  Here's the URL I used 
for the AP 
>> report (though it may not work for you: AP Google URLs are 
unreliable 
>> in my experience):
>>
>> 
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvriCVJJJ0RYvhGDq06v1nEykPD
gD8ULKS
>> I80
>>
>> Without further info, I guess I would assume that DST will 
end in 
>> Chile and in Easter Island on March 30 at 03:00 UTC.
>>
>>   
>