[tz] Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis possible rule inconsistency
Mariano Absatz - gmail
el.baby at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 21:02:34 UTC 2012
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Larry Leung <crealisiss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> with respect to 2012c south america. San Luis appears to have a
> zone/rule inconsistency. The latest zone indicates using rule SanLuis, but
> the rule is used only until 2009. For dates past 2009 is there consistency?
>
> # San Luis (SL)
>
> Rule SanLuis 2008 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 -
> Rule SanLuis 2007 2009 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S
>
> Zone America/Argentina/San_Luis -4:25:24 - LMT 1894 Oct 31
> .
> .
> .
> -3:00 Arg AR%sT 2008 Jan 21
> -4:00 SanLuis WAR%sT
>
> Well...
I'm not sure how this is treated "by the book" (however, I know, at least
in my linux's libc it 'just works').
To make a long story short, by 2009 Argentina stopped using DST and all of
the country is at UTC-0300.
However, the San Luis Province call this "Western Argentina Daylight
Savings Time" because they consider that WART is at UTC-0400 and they "got
stuck" in WARST (at UTC-0300), whereas the rest of the country calls this
Argentina Time at UTC-0300.
Rereading the southamerica source, I also notice there is no 'Arg' rule
after 2009 but, since there are no invocation of any of these rules after
2008, I think it's just fine.
--
Mariano Absatz - El Baby
www.clueless.com.ar
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