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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Hi Marcio!</div><div><br></div>"Metazone" is a CLDR term. See:<div><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-dates.html#Metazone_Names" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-dates.html#Metazone_Names</a><br><div><a href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml</a></div><div><br></div><div>CLDR depends on TZDB, but not vice-versa.</div><div><br></div><div>You may also be interested in:</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Brazil" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Brazil</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>-Matt<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: silverpie2@mac.com<br>Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:04:54 -0400<br>To: marcio.ikeda@lge.com<br>CC: tz@iana.org<br>Subject: Re: [tz] Timezone in Brazil<br><br><div>This is one of the most common questions we get. Being the capital is not meaningful--it's the largest city in the zone that names it. Thus, Brasilia would be in the São Paulo (or Rio de Janeiro) zone. (Similarly, Washington DC is in the New York zone, and Ottawa in the Toronto zone.)<br><br>Envoyé de mon iPad</div><div><br>Le 8 oct. 2015 à 17:21, MARCIO IKEDA <<a href="mailto:marcio.ikeda@lge.com">marcio.ikeda@lge.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote><div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This is Marcio Ikeda from LG Electronics in Brazil.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Nice to meet you!</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to know if there are some background history for timezones in Brazil.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">It seems that Brasilia city which is the capital, is only treated as a metaZone and not a timeZone.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to know if are there some discussions on why </span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">America/Brasilia is not in the list.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">And if It is possible to include it.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This is causing people from QA here to question this.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you!</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;">Marcio Ikeda</span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;">Software Engineer | UIFW – LGESP SCA R&D Lab</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;">Office: + 55 11 2202 5339</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;">Mobile:+ 55 11 9 9966 6457</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;">E-mail: <a href="mailto:marcio.ikeda@lge.com">marcio.ikeda@lge.com</a></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#595959;"><image001.jpg></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#595959;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#1F497D;">LG ELECTRONICS DO BRASIL</span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#595959;">Av. Dr. Chucri Zaidan, 1170 – 10</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#595959;">º</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#595959;"> andar – CEP 04583-110 – São Paulo/SP</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lge.com/br" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#0563C1;">www.lge.com/br</span></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC0066;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#CC0066;"> </span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC0066;"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"LG Smart";color:#595959;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"><image002.jpg></span><span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div> </div></body>
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