[tz] [PROPOSED] Adjust official transition for Turks & Caicos

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Aug 26 07:56:40 UTC 2017


* NEWS: Adjust.
* northamerica (America/Grand_Turk):
Switch 2018-03-11 03:00, not 2018-04-01.
---
 NEWS         | 2 +-
 northamerica | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0909112..55c06f7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     at 02:00.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
 
     Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on
-    2018-04-01 at 00:00.  This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04
+    2018-03-11 at 03:00.  This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04
     at 02:00.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
 
   Changes to past time stamps
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 42529de..93655fa 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -3390,12 +3390,18 @@ Zone America/Miquelon	-3:44:40 -	LMT	1911 May 15 # St Pierre
 # Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ...
 # https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3
 #
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-08-26):
+# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11,
+# which makes more sense.  See: Hamilton D. Time change back
+# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2018-08-25.
+# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/
+#
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone America/Grand_Turk	-4:44:32 -	LMT	1890
 			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
 			-5:00	-	EST	1979
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00
-			-4:00	-	AST	2018 Apr
+			-4:00	-	AST	2018 Mar 11 3:00
 			-5:00	US	E%sT
 
 # British Virgin Is
-- 
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