[tz] Chile will keep UTC -3 all year round indefinitely

Juan Correa pottersys at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 14:41:46 UTC 2015


Although there is no formal decree yet, today the Ministry of Energy
announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC
-5) all year round, and will drop the Easter Island timezone (so all the
Chilean land will be on a single time zone)

Sources:

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http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2015/01/28/301742/El-horario-de-verano-regira-todo-el-ano.aspx

"El ministro de Energía, Máximo Pacheco, anunció la suspensión del cambio
de horario, por lo que durante todo el año regirá el horario de verano.

"El Gobierno ha decidido mantener en forma indefinida un horario único en
Chile Continental e Insular", dijo el secretario de Estado, enfatizando
"que esta medida va a ayudar a mejorar la calidad de vida de los chilenos y
a ser un mejor uso de la energía"."

(The ministry of Energy, Máximo Pacheco, announced the suspension of
daylight saving time; so 'summer time' will rule all year round

"The Government has decided to keep indefinitely the same time for Chile
Continental and Easter island", pointing that "this measure will help to
improve the quality of life for Chileans and use energy in a better way")

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http://www.24horas.cl/nacional/ministro-de-energia-se-suspende-el-cambio-de-horario-1568761

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http://www.t13.cl/noticia/actualidad/nacional/gobierno-suprime-cambio-de-hora-en-chile-y-horario-de-verano-regira-todo-el-ano

I'll share the decree as soon is published on our Diario Oficial (law
gacette)

-- 
Juan Correa Poblete
PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)
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