On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Arthur David Olson <<a href="mailto:olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov">olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Below find proposed changes to files in the time zone package:<br>
* australasia, europe, and southamerica: changes by Halász Sándor Viktor to fix URLs.<br>
* africa: changes to reflect Mauritius's 2008-2009 DST experiment.<br>
* southamerica and zone.tab: changes to reflect Brazilian time zone realignments.<br>
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As usual, I plan to let these percolate over a weekend;<br>
if no problems are found tzdata2008d.tar.gz should appear on 2008-07-07.</blockquote><div><br>The text by Paul Schulze about Brazilian timezones is missing all
accented characters. Here is the text with the proper characters:<br><br>+ # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):<br>
+ # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diário Oficial da União"...)<br>
+ # in Brazil there are changes in the timezones, effective today (00:00am<br>
+ # at June 24, 2008) as follows:<br>
+ #<br>
+ # a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the<br>
+ # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the<br>
+ # timezone UTC+4<br>
+ # b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just<br>
+ # part of it, as was before.<br>
+ #<br>
+ # This change follows a proposal of senator Tião Viana of Acre state, that<br>
+ # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying<br>
+ # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone<br>
+ # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections<br>
+ # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This<br>
+ # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June,<br>
+ # 1913.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Rodrigo Severo<br><br></div></div>