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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=600102715-01032001>Hank
Ivy is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies
appropriately.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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--ado</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Hank Ivy
[mailto:hivy@rosemail.rose.hp.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 28, 2001
2:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov<BR><B>Subject:</B> Daylight Savings
Time problems in Brazil<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>Dear Sirs,</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>I have been working with the 2000h version of the time zone and
daylight</TT> <BR><TT>savings time data at</TT> <BR><TT><A
href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000h.tar.gz">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2000h.tar.gz</A>
, and</TT> <BR><TT><A
href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000h.tar.gz">ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2000h.tar.gz</A>
.</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>I have found some unusual results in the rules files for time zones</TT>
<BR><TT>in Brazil. I have given a high level statement of the unusual,
and</TT> <BR><TT>then detailed output from the zdump command later.</TT>
<BR><TT>The details are in the attachment.</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>Do you get similiar results from the zdump command?</TT> <BR><TT>Have I
made a mistake in understanding the zdump results?</TT> <BR><TT>Is there any way
that I can help clear this up?</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>*** Local Name BRT 3 BRST in Brazil<BR>The time zone America/Recife
has a seven day long Daylight</TT> <BR><TT>Savings Time (DST) in October 2000,
and no DST in 1991-1998, 2001,</TT> <BR><TT>and beyond.<BR><BR>The time zone
America/Maceio has a fourteen day long DST<BR>in October 2000, and no DST in
1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2001,</TT> <BR><TT>and beyond.<BR><BR>The time zone
America/Fortaleza has a fourteen day long (DST)<BR>in October 2000, and no DST
in 1991-1998, 2001, and beyond.<BR><BR>The time zones America/Araguaina and
America/Sao_Paulo have</TT> <BR><TT>the same local names as the three time zones
above. They are all</TT> <BR><TT>in Brazil. These time zones have
reasonable length DST in 2000,</TT> <BR><TT>and 2001. These look
OK.</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>*** Local Name AMT 4 AMST in Brazil<BR>The time zone
America/Boa_Vista has a seven day long (DST)<BR>in October 2000, and no
DST in 1988-1998, 2001, and beyond.<BR><BR>The time zone America/Cuiaba has the
same local name. They</TT> <BR><TT>are both in Brazil. This time
zone has reasonable length</TT> <BR><TT>DST in 2000, and 2001. This looks
OK.</TT><BR><BR><PRE><TT>--
Regards, Hank Ivy
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