Brazil can't decide on daylight savings
Daniel C. Sobral
dcs at gns.com.br
Thu Feb 12 15:37:18 UTC 1998
This is a patch I submitted to FreeBSD regarding recent and very
recent changes on Daylight Savings beginning and ending dates on
Brazil. In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was
that because international television networks ignored Brazil's
policy on DS, they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage
of Pope's visit.
This year, the ending date of DS was postponed to March first to
help dealing with the shortages of electric power.
I was also told to send you any citations demonstrating the
announcements dates, but I can't. The ending date was changed this
week, I'm almost sure the announcement was made tuesday (it was
being expected, and I was first notified of it through a backweb
newspaper service). As for the change in 1997, I really don't recall
any dates (besides the ones that have direct impact to me, being a
sysadm, of course).
The patch is attached.
--
Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
dcs at gns.com.br
Every program has (at least) two purposes:
the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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*** southamerica.orig Wed Feb 11 21:06:09 1998
--- southamerica Wed Feb 11 21:06:58 1998
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*** 272,277 ****
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Rule Brazil 1994 1995 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 S
Rule Brazil 1996 max - Feb Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
Rule Brazil 1996 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
+ Rule Brazil 1997 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 D
+ Rule Brazil 1998 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
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