TZ changes for Brazil for 2003/2004

Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires p at ppires.org
Mon Sep 22 05:50:54 UTC 2003


Paul Eggert wrote:

>At 18 Sep 2003 15:36:28 -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires writes:
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>>Attached are my diffs to tzdata2003c for the just-released rules for
>>Brazilian summer time 2003/2004.
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>Thanks for reporting this.
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>>Since this year two states that traditionally obeyed summer time are
>>no longer doing so, I had to create two new cities, namely Salvador
>>and Campo Grande, for the states of Bahia (BA) and Mato Grosso do
>>Sul (MS).
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>Unfortunately "America/Salvador" is a fairly ambiguous name, since
>there are many cities called "Salvador" in the Americas.  I am
>thinking that perhaps we should call that entry "America/Bahia"
>instead.  Normally we don't give state names to locations, but this
>might be time to make an exception.  We already made an exception for
>the city of San Salvador, in Central America, for the same reason; its
>entry is called "America/El_Salvador".
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>># Another change for 2003/2004 (not in http://pcdsh01.on.br/ yet -- ON has
>># been lagging behind lastest decrees; this information was found in
>># http://oglobo.globo.com/online/pais/110274614.asp).
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>Unfortunately I can't view that page; it asks for subscriber information.
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>Do you have a presidential decree number?  I'd like to refer to the
>official decree.
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>The previous daylight-saving decree wias 4,399, and we're referring to
><http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm> rather
>than to <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV4399.gif> because HTML is
>better than GIF for this sort of thing.  If you can give me a decree
>number, perhaps I can deduce the URL at www.presidencia.gov.br.
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>>Rule	Brazil	2003	max	-	Oct	Sun>=14	 0:00	1:00	S
>>Rule	Brazil	2004	max	-	Feb	Sun>=14	 0:00	0	-
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>"Sun>=14" is unusual.  Normally it would be "Sun>=15" (the 3rd Sunday
>of the month).  There's no difference between "Sun>=14" and "Sun>=15"
>for October 2003 and February 2004, so I assume it's OK to change
>these occurrences to "Sun>=15".
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>Thank you again for providing the updated information.
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Checing the patch I sent you, I saw another mistake I made.  Two rules 
"Brazil 2003 max" remained active at the same time.  The first one, that 
starts on Oct>=8 should be removed, if you haven't done so already.

My apologies.

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