FW: New rules for summer time in Brazil

[Rodrigo Severo]

Hi,

>>
>>Innovations for this year include begining of summer time on a Tuesday 
>>(2004/11/02, that happens to be a religious holiday for mourning the 
>>dead).  I *really* don't believe that this starting on Tuesday will 
>>last.  States are the same as last year.
>>    
>>
Not really. This year the state of Mato Grosso has been included in the 
DST observing states list. It hadn't DST last year.

>Oops!  Bad phrasing and serious confusion.  I actually wanted to say that I
>don't really believe that starting of summer time on this holiday will be a
>practice for the years to come.
>  
>
I agree with you. This strange date is related to brazilian voting 
machines not being able to deal with time changes between first and 
second rounds of the municipal elections. I don't think anyone proposed 
tuesdays as a permanent DST entry date, not even the technicians 
responsable for the technical aspects of the decree.

As far as I can tell, the patch I sent to this list yesterday includes 
theses changes in tzdata just fine. I'm afraid there will have to be 
another tzdata2004 edition soon, before October, the 17th, I mean.


Best regards,

Rodrigo Severo