[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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