[tz] Cuba changing clocks this Sunday
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Nov 3 08:46:48 UTC 2012
Thanks for the heads-up. Here's a proposed patch to the
tz database. Looks like we'll have to push out a new version
ASAP.
>From 0ff4ee1dd4b2b9042052df4a4acab3c72f3d2665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 01:45:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Cuba switches to standard time on November 4 this year.
* northamerica: Alter Cuba rules accordingly.
Thanks to Steffen Thorsen for the heads-up, in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018427.html>.
---
northamerica | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 1f784e0..18a4228 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -2797,6 +2797,13 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html
# </a>
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03):
+# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back
+# to standard time on 2012-11-04:
+# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre
+# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03):
+# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S
@@ -2834,7 +2841,7 @@ Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S
Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D
-Rule Cuba 2012 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
+Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S
Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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1.7.9.5
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