[tz] Tocantins in Brazil probably not observing DST this season

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 20 16:59:54 UTC 2013


Thanks for the heads-up; here's a draft patch,
which I've pushed to the experimental repository.

>From 1eda0f6cd40dc4923c5875f68dffb7896d97e7b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:58:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Tocantins won't observe DST this spring.

Thanks to Steffen Thorsen in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/020311.html>.
* southamerica (America/Araguaina): No longer observing DST.
---
 southamerica | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index 464c548..78f3fcd 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -845,6 +845,12 @@ Zone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
 # Tocantins state will have DST.
 # http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI6232536-EI306.html
 
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-20):
+# Tocantins in Brazil is very likely not to observe DST from October....
+# http://conexaoto.com.br/2013/09/18/ministerio-confirma-que-tocantins-esta-fora-do-horario-de-verao-em-2013-mas-falta-publicacao-de-decreto
+# We will keep this article updated when this is confirmed:
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-starts-dst-2013.html
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01)
 # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm">21,896</a> (1932-01-10)
@@ -1064,7 +1070,8 @@ Zone America/Araguaina	-3:12:48 -	LMT	1914
 			-3:00	-	BRT	1995 Sep 14
 			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT	2003 Sep 24
 			-3:00	-	BRT	2012 Oct 21
-			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT
+			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT	2013 Sep
+			-3:00	-	BRT
 #
 # Alagoas (AL), Sergipe (SE)
 Zone America/Maceio	-2:22:52 -	LMT	1914
-- 
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