Bug 296801

Summary: Venezuela to change time zone by 30 min in Sept
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 5.0CC: azelinka, juanino, marcobillpeter, marty, mgiles, mnewsome, pbat, rick.beldin, riek
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Description Chris Van Hoof 2007-09-19 18:55:07 UTC
<snip>
Next month Venezuelan clocks will be set at Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
minus 4-1/2 hours, compared to the previous GMT minus four hours,
Science and Technology Minister Hector Navarro told reporters at a news
conference.
</snip>

... No update has been made upstream at this point.

Comment 9 Rick Beldin 2007-09-19 20:47:38 UTC
Pointer to article on web... change apparently will happen 9/24/07

http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_venezuela02.html

Comment 10 Petr Machata 2007-09-20 15:21:24 UTC
Created attachment 200841 [details]
Fix for this problem.

Proposed patch.  This reflects my understanding of current situation:
 + No DST is introduced
 + The timezone will change from -4:00 to -4:30.  At 24:00 of 23 Sep, the
clocks will move back to 23:30 of 23 Sep
 + New timezone should be called Hora Legal de Venezuela, and the time zone
abbreviation is accordingly HLV.  This is best effort guess, not an official
resolution (as of yet).

Comment 26 Jerry Uanino 2008-03-27 14:37:01 UTC
I think this can be closed right?