[tz] Error in America/Ojinaga

[Nikos (Nikolaos) Papadakos, PhD]

Thank you. Apologies I did not realize there was a new timezone called
America/Ciudad_Juarez.



> 
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 16:46, Nikos (Nikolaos) Papadakos, PhD via tz <
> tz at iana.org> wrote:
> > Our customer is a major airline in Mexico and they tell me the time
> > should America/Ojinaga should be the same as America/Denver.
> 
> It is our understanding that the recent changes split time zone
> observances along Chihuahua's northern border.  According to that
> split, from 2022-11-30, Ojinaga is like America/Chicago, while Ciudad
> Juárez is like America/Denver.
>  
> > III.    Para el Estado de Baja California, así como para los
> > municipios
> > de Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Praxedis G. Guerrero y Guadalupe, del
> > Estado de Chihuahua, acorde a sus correlativos a su franja
> > fronteriza,
> > se aplica el meridiano 105 grados al oeste de Greenwich."
> 
> While the above describes that the municipio of Juárez (including
> its municipal seat, Ciudad Juárez) observes a standard time of UTC-7, 
> which is like America/Denver, the section immediately prior reads:
> 
> > II.     Para los municipios de Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga y Manuel
> > Benavides, del Estado de Chihuahua, acorde a sus correlativos a su
> > franja fronteriza, se aplica el meridiano 90 grados al oeste de
> > Greenwich;
> 
> …meaning that the city and municipio of Ojinaga follow UTC-6, which
> is like America/Chicago.
> 
> A new zone, America/Ciudad_Juarez, was split off from America/Ojinaga
> in 2022g to allow for these differences in timekeeping.  Since this
> zone did not exist prior to 2022g, those in the western portions of
> Chihuahua's border region (including Juárez) will need to switch to
> it, as the time in and around Juárez and Chihuahua's northwest no
> longer matches the time in Ojinaga and Chihuahua's northeast.
> 
> --
> Tim Parenti