[tz] [PATCH] Change Cayman abbreviations to CIST and CIDST

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Dec 8 16:22:59 UTC 2015


A bill to implement US-style daylight saving time has been
published by the Cayman Islands Gazette, so it looks like our
clock predictions are still on track. The bill gives
Cayman-specific time zone abbreviations, though, so we need to
change tzdata for that.
* NEWS: Document this.
* northamerica (Cayman): New rule.  It is like the US since 2016,
but with different LETTER/S.
(America/Cayman): Use it.
---
 NEWS         |  3 +++
 northamerica | 17 +++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 121e0e4..ac0369c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     America/Metlakatla switched from PST all year to AKST/AKDT on
     2015-11-01 at 02:00.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
 
+    Time zone abbreviations for America/Cayman have been changed from
+    EST/EDT to CIST/CIDST, as per the 2015-11-25 daylight-saving bill.
+
   Changes affecting future time stamps
 
     Asia/Tehran now has DST predictions for the year 2038 and later,
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index e916524..38a8beb 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -2688,16 +2688,21 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1930 Jan  1  2:00 # Hamilton
 
 # Cayman Is
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2015-05-15):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-08):
 # The Cayman government has decided to introduce DST in 2016, the idea being
-# to keep in sync with New York.  The legislation hasn't passed but the change
-# seems quite likely.  See: Meade B. Cayman 27.
-# http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2015/05/15/clock-ticks-toward-daylight-saving-time-in-cayman
+# to keep in sync with New York.  The enabling legislation has been published,
+# and seems quite likely to be approved.  See Cayman Islands
+# Extraordinary Gazette No. 92 (2015-11-25), Supp. 2, which specifies the
+# abbreviations CIST and CIDST.
+# http://www.gov.ky/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/12274400.PDF
+
+# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
+Rule	Cayman	2016	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Cayman	2016	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
 
 Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890     # Georgetown
 			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-			-5:00	-	EST	2016
-			-5:00	US	E%sT
+			-5:00	Cayman	CI%sST
 
 # Costa Rica
 
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