Bug 119148

Summary:	Argentina DST change
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	slaytanic
Component:	conf	Assignee:	Edwin Groothuis <edwin>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	6.3-PRERELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description slaytanic 2007-12-30 04:10:01 UTC

The Argentine Congress approved a law to change the current timezone
to observe DST. I couldn't find any FreeBSD-specific information about
this change so I decided to submit this as a PR.

The timezone change will take place on the 30th of December 2007 at
00:00, moving the clock forward to 01:00 and it will return to normal
on the 16th of March 2007 at 00:00.

That means from December 30th to March 16th we will be at GMT-2 and then
back to GMT-3.

The official bulletin is available at
http://www.boletinoficial.gov.ar/bora.portal/PrimeraSecci%C3%B3n/tabid/53/Default.aspx

The specific law for the time change is 26.350.

Unfortunately the change was very abrupt with very little notice given
and since it's already in effect there's probably a high number of
affected systems in the wild right now.

Comment 1 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer

2007-12-30 04:27:03 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->edwin

I have been following this on comp.time.tz and waiting for an 
official patch by ODA and/or an update of the tzdata files. 

In the mean time, I suggest you use the port misc/zoneinfo and make 
sure you have version 2007j_1 which will have the patches.

Comment 2 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer

2007-12-30 04:37:31 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

suspended because of lack of patch, availability of misc/zoneinfo 
and waiting for official patch of ADO.

Comment 3 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer

2008-01-01 07:56:06 UTC

State Changed
From-To: suspended->closed

Imported into HEAD, MFC when the trees are open again. See also 
misc/zoneinfo in the ports trees.