Argentina DST switch on October 19 is not official
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Thu Oct 9 09:41:57 UTC 2008
Hello tzdata maintainers,
in https://launchpad.net/bugs/278419 we first handled the recent
Argentina DST change and uloaded 2008g to all stable Ubuntu releases.
However, now there are some followup comments which say that is not at
all clear whether October 19 will actually switch to DST, as indicated
by the current rules. The last comment subsumes this as
"I think the problem is that there are no official sources saying
that DST will start on 19th October, so there isn't really any
source to reference to. That dates seem to be a rumour from an
unofficial news site. Until an official announcement is made, it
should probably be assumed that there will be no DST starting in
October."
I can just play messenger here, and I don't speak Spanish either, but
I thought notifying you about possible problems would be a good idea.
Settling this soon would be good, since it always takes a while until
tzdata package updates are actually downloaded and used by people.
Thanks,
Martin
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