Brazil considering a common time zone

[Steffen Thorsen]

There is a proposal to have all of Brazil follow Brasilia's time zone.
The proposal received a Senate committee approval on Tuesday, June 16, 
2009, it is No 486, 2008 is available in PDF (and Portuguese) here:

http://legis.senado.gov.br/mate/servlet/PDFMateServlet?s=http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/atividade/Materia/MateFO.xsl&o=ASC&m=88802

It will probably be debated, and there are no dates yet for when such a 
possible change will be observed from.

We provide some background info about it here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-one-time-zone.html

Best regards,
Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com