[tz] Chile Time Change

[José Miguel Garrido]

Today appeared in the Diario Oficial a decree amending the time change
dates to 2014.

DST End: last Saturday of April 2014 (Sun 27 Apr 2014 03:00 UTC)
DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)

http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf

El 18-02-2014 16:49, José Miguel Garrido escribió:
> Chile official time, time zones of their territory and start and end
> dates of summer time were defined by Decreto Supremo in 1970. That
> indicates that DST rules from 24 hours on the second Saturday of October
> until 24 hours on the second Saturday in March. In the years 2010, 2011,
> 2012 and 2013 the start and end dates of summer time were changed for 4
> Decrees, which modified the start and end dates for each of those years.
> Therefore, the change was not permanent (although dates in 2011, 2012
> and 2013 coincided). That's why, while a new decree does not appear to
> alter dates to 2014, is kept ending date of daylight saving 24 hours of
> the second Saturday in March (Sun, 9 Mar 2014 3:00 UTC). To date, no
> official information on whether this year will occur a change of dates.
>
> El 18-02-2014 11:56, Glenn Eychaner escribió:
>> That much notice would be a blessing. In years before 2013, the changes were made with as little as 5 days notice (notice Monday for a change in the date scheduled for the following Saturday).  And as I said before, we have a goverment change on March 11, so all bets are off.
>>
>> -G.
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:48 AM, tz-request at iana.org wrote:
>>
>>> Although that is a reasonable assumption, the 2013 announcement wasn't 
>>> until February 15 and it's only February 17 now, so I'm somewhat 
>>> inclined to give it a few more days, unless we get more-definite 
>>> information.
>> --
>> Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl)
>> Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory
>>
>>
>>
>


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