On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, 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;">
Paul Schulze was kind enough to point out a geography error in the proposed<br>
changes; the change below is on top of those circulated yesterday.<br>
The changes below also eliminate the single accented character in the<br>
southamerica file (for consistency); we'll see what the future holds for<br>
accented characters.</blockquote><div><br>As the imediate move is to remove accented characters the text by Paul Schulze should read:<br><br>+ # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):<br>
+ # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario Oficial da Uniao"...)<div class="Ih2E3d"><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></div>
+ # b) The whole Para state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
+ # part of it, as was before.<br>
+ #<br></div>
+ # This change follows a proposal of senator Tiao 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><br><br>Please notice that the above text is different from both the first version sent by Olson and the second, sent by me.<br><br>The first had no accent characters at all, i.e., missing letters.<br><br>The second had the accented characters with the accents.<br>
<br>This one, the third, has the accented characters without the accents which seems to be the desired goal before UTF-8 or something similar is adopted.<br><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Rodrigo Severo<br clear="all"></div></div>
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