Beginning of Summer Time in Chile

Submitted by dwalker on Sat, 2011-08-20 14:09

Beginning of summer time in Chile According to Supreme Decree N° 469, dated on June 23, 2011 of the Ministry of Interior, Chile will go into Summer-time on Saturday August 20, 2011.  At midnight on August 20, 2011 all clocks in Continental Chile and Chilean Antarctic must be set forward 60 minutes (1 hour), this is to 01:00 am, Sunday August 21st.   

Please consider this time change when making plans for observing. The time difference between Chile and UTC (-3hr), Brasília (0hr), US Eastern (+1hr), US Central (+2hr), US Mountain (+3hr), and US Pacific (+4hr).