On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Alberto Bertogli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:05:10PM -0000, MAbeeTT wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Nicolás Alvarez
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > What the hell? I thought the fix REMOVED DST for this year!
>> >
>>
>> Remember that some argentinian places has no confirmed the change or
>> not for this year
>>
>> http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1056251
>> http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1052700
>> http://www.mdzol.com/mdz/nota/72048-Jaque-no-adhiere-al-cambio-de-horario-propuesto-por-Cristina/
>
> That has nothing to do with this situation. It just states that IF the
> goverment decides to set a date for DST, Mendoza will ignore it. Given
> that there is already a special timezone for Mendoza, this is not an
> issue at all.
>
>
> At the moment, there is absolutely NO indication whatsoever that
> Argentina (either with or without Mendoza) will change its timezone in
> October.

You right,

http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/Bora.Portal/CustomControls/PdfContentResponse.aspx?fp=28122007&pi=10&pf=10&s=0&sec=01

See page 3, 3rd column (Public Journal in Argentina's Official
Language, Spanish, PDF)

>
> There is no reason to expect so. tzdata should be changed to reflect
> this, and obviously it should be fixed upstream.
>
>
> Yes, it is possible that we do change the timezone sometime this year;
> however, at this moment, nobody knows when. So it's a tzdata bug to make
> guesses about it.
>
> Last year we had to wait until the law passed (just about 3 days before
> the timezone change took place) to change tzdata, which is a very
> reasonable requirement.
>
> Now they're playing guesses with our timezone based on a rumor written
> on an almost-unknown online newspaper?

Well Argentina pays for a Canciller ( ~ Foreign Minister ). :-S

Thanks for your response.


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