Time Zone Changes in 1995

Paul Eggert (1995-03-06):

Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but "the system was discontinued
because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours."

From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm
Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on
[1948-05-01]....  But lack of prior debate and the execution of
daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated
deep hatred of the concept....  The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to
dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San
Francisco Peace Treaty was signed.  (A government poll in 1951 showed 53%
of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who
wanted to keep it.)

Attached to: Japan (asia)

Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):

Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.

Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):

I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table...
AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina.

Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Attached to: Arg (southamerica)

Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):

These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A.,
obtaining the data from the:
Talleres de Hidrografía Naval Argentina
(Argentine Naval Hydrography Institute)

Attached to: Arg (southamerica)

Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26):

From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving
time corrections was derogated and no more modifications
to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made.

Attached to: Arg (southamerica)

Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):

The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
of October....  The law is the same for March and October.
(1998-09-29):
Because of the drought this year, the government decided to go into
DST earlier (saturday 9/26 at 24:00). This is a one-time change only ...
(unless there's another dry season next year, I guess).

Attached to: Chile (southamerica)