Bug#821147: Venezuela to change time zone on May 1

2016-04-18 Thread Alberto Capella 
A new version of tzdata is available, tzdata2016d (released 2016-04-17).

The latest version affecting future time stamps:
America/Caracas
Asia/Magadan
Asia/Tomsk

Regards

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Bug#821147: Venezuela to change time zone on May 1

2016-04-15 Thread Alberto Capella 
Package: tzdata
Version: any
Severity: important

The Venezuelan government has announced [1][2] change to UTC-0400 (jump
forward) on May 1 because of El Niño (prolonged drought).

Thanks.

[1]
http://albaciudad.org/2016/04/arreaza-explica-nuevo-huso-horario-venezuela-2016/
[2]
https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/204758-venezuela-modificar-huso-horario-sequia-elnino

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Alberto Capella
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