[tz] tz Digest, Vol 17, Issue 12

[Deborah Goldsmith]

Is anyone working on a patch?

Thanks,
Deborah

On Feb 18, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Glenn Eychaner <geychaner at mac.com> wrote:

> The "official instructions", which explain how Easter Island (b) and Antarctica and the continent (a) work as well, can now be found at:
> http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
> Google Translate does a pretty good job on this page, so I won't bother to translate the whole thing. Also, unfortunately, I won't have time to create a patch this week, so if someone else could do so, I'd appreciate it. Hey, at least they gave us more than a few days notice this year.
> 
> Thanks,
> -G.
> 
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:43:03 -0000
>> From: "Hank W." <hankw1 at austin.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [tz] Chile DST extended
>> 
>> I assume that Easter Island and Palmer Station in Antarctica are following
>> this year's special schedule as well.  Correct?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of Steffen
>> Thorsen
>> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 18:53
>> To: tz at iana.org
>> Subject: [tz] Chile DST extended
>> 
>> According to several news sources, Chile has extended DST this year, they
>> will end DST later and start DST earlier than planned. They hope to save
>> energy.
>> 
>> The new end date is 2013-04-28 00:00 and new start date is 2013-09-08 00:00.
>> 
>> One such news source:
>> http://www.elboyaldia.cl/node/21913
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
> 
> 
> --
> Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl)
> Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory
> 
>