[tz] timezone history of Uruguay

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Feb 16 17:58:03 UTC 2018


Thanks very much for all that work! You should win this year's tzdata 
prize for Best Historical Contribution. I installed the patch, along 
with the following minor change to commentary to pacify 'make 
check_character_set'.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:33:29 -0800
Subject: [PROPOSED] =?UTF-8?q?*=20southamerica:=20Pacify=20=E2=80=98make?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20check=5Fcharacter=5Fset=E2=80=99.?=
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 southamerica | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index e980700..d97343e 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1694,11 +1694,11 @@ Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Tortola	# Virgin Islands (UK)
 # auspices of the National Institute for the Prediction of Time.  It is unclear
 # exactly what offset was used during this period, though Ley No. 7200 of
 # 1920-04-23 used the Observatory of the National Meteorological Institute in
-# Montevideo (S 34°54′33″, W 056°12′45″) as its reference meridian, retarding
-# legal time by 15 minutes 9 seconds from 1920-04-30 24:00, resulting in UT-04.
-# Assume the corresponding LMT of UT-03:44:51 (given on page 725 of the
-# Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, 1915-1916) was in
-# use, and merely became official from 1908-06-10.
+# Montevideo (S 34 deg. 54'33", W 056 deg. 12'45") as its reference meridian,
+# retarding legal time by 15 minutes 9 seconds from 1920-04-30 24:00,
+# resulting in UT-04.  Assume the corresponding LMT of UT-03:44:51 (given on
+# page 725 of the Proceedings of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress,
+# 1915-1916) was in use, and merely became official from 1908-06-10.
 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1908/06/18/12
 # https://www.impo.com.uy/diariooficial/1920/04/27/9
 #
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