Argentina DST blues

[Mariano Absatz - El Baby]

Hi there, again...

whereas the National Decree from last Friday didn't include Jujuy among 
the Provinces excepted from the DST change and that was the information 
in Saturday morning papers 
(http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1060668), on Saturday 
afternoon the news was that Jujuy would NOT apply DST on Sunday 
(http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1060788), which was 
confirmed in the Sunday morning printed edition 
(http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1060982).

In the Jujuy Government's portal (http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/) there's a 
small reference to this in the Government activity section 
(http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/gobernacion/) but the "read more" link 
points to another press release...

I managed to follow their naming logic and found the correct press 
release at 
http://www.jujuy.gov.ar/index2/partes_prensa/18_10_08/235-181008.doc 
(it's a Word document).


The enclosed patch does the following:

References Decrees 1693 and 1705 from the Argentina's Boletín Oficial 
and the press release from the Province of Jujuy.

Splits America/Argentina/Cordoba into America/Argentina/Salta, adjusting 
LMT for the latter for dates up to 1894-10-31

Adjusts the following zones not to apply DST from now on:
America/Argentina/Salta
America/Argentina/Jujuy
America/Argentina/Catamarca
America/Argentina/La_Rioja
America/Argentina/San_Juan
America/Argentina/Mendoza
America/Argentina/San_Luis
America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
America/Argentina/Ushuaia

Adds the new zone into zone.tab

Reorders America/Argentina/* within zone.tab according to the 
instructions within the file (geographical sense / most populous first)

Reorders America/Argentina/* within southamerica to have the same order 
as within zone.tab

I also uploaded a tz file for Argentina with this info at
http://wiki.clueless.com.ar/ActualizarTimezonesConTzdata?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=argentina-baby-2008-10-19.zoneinfo 


There are instructions (in Spanish) to download and compile it at
http://wiki.clueless.com.ar/ActualizarTimezonesConTzdata#parche_baby_2008_10 





-- 
Mariano Absatz - "El Baby"
baby at baby.com.ar
www.clueless.com.ar


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