[GTER] Fwd: summary of last week's proposed tz patches for Brazil
Marcos Tadeu von Lutzow Vidal
marcos at v2r.com.br
Tue Oct 15 15:53:00 -03 2002
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Subject: summary of last week's proposed tz patches for Brazil
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:42:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com>
To: Marcos Tadeu von Lutzow Vidal <marcos at v2r.com.br>, Otavio Exel
<oexel at economatica.com.br>, Vitor de Matos Carvalho <vitor at softinfo.com.br>,
"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>, Gustavo Chamone
<gchamone at cellcard.com.br>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com>
Cc: tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
I'm sending a copy of this message to everyone who has written
recently about the incorrect tz tables for Brazil. At the end of this
message I enclose a patch that embodies the "southamerica" part of
both proposed patches that I forwarded to the tz list last week. You
should be able to apply this patch directly to the data in
tzdata2002c. This is just a summary of the "southamerica" part of
last week's proposals. It isn't "official" (as if anything in tz were
"official" :-), but I expect that Arthur David Olson will generate a
new tz data file when he finds the time.
diff -pru tz-2002cc/southamerica tz/southamerica
--- tz-2002cc/southamerica 2002-04-04 16:55:20.000000000 +0000
+++ tz/southamerica 2002-10-11 05:37:08.000000000 +0000
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Zone America/Buenos_Aires -3:53:48 - LMT
# Shanks also makes the following claims, which we haven't verified:
# - Formosa switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-07.
# - La Rioja and San Juan switched to -4:00 on 1991-03-01
-# and then to 03:00 on 1991-05-07.
+# and then to -3:00 on 1991-05-07.
# - Misiones switched to -3:00 on 1990-12-29.
# - Chaco switched to -3:00 on 1991-01-04.
# - San Luis switched to -4:00 on 1990-03-14, then to -3:00 on 1990-10-15,
@@ -292,11 +292,28 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890
# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbr.htm
# http://pcdsh01.on.br/Fusbrhv.htm
-# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
-# The official decrees referenced below are taken from
+# From Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):
+# The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.
+#
+# Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
+# the results are known almost immediately. Yesterday, it was the first
+# round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
+# Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies. Nobody is
+# counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
+# round for the Presidency and also for some Governors. The 2nd round will
+# take place on October 27th.
+#
+# The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
+# of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
+# Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
+# the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the
Constitution
+# (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):
+# The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html">
# Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil
-# </a> (1999-10-04, in Portuguese).
+# </a> (2001-09-20, in Portuguese).
# The official site for all decrees, including those not related to time, is
# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/principal_ano.htm">
# Presidencia da Republica, Subchefia para Assuntos Juridicos, Decretos
@@ -421,15 +438,18 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 -
# repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00.
# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV3916.gif">3,916</a>
# (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
+Rule Brazil 2000 2001 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
+# Decree 4,399 (2002-10-01) repeals DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE.
+# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a>
+Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S
#
+Rule Brazil 2003 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S
# The latest decree listed above says that the following states observe DST:
-# AL, BA, CE, DF, ES, GO, MA, MG, MS, MT,
-# PB, PE, PI, PR, RJ, RN, RS, SC, SE, SP, TO.
+# BA, DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP, TO.
#
-# For dates after mid-2002, the following rules are guesses
+# For dates after mid-2003, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses
# and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all.
-Rule Brazil 2000 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -453,7 +473,8 @@ Zone America/Fortaleza -2:34:00 - LMT 19
-3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30
-3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 22
-3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13
- -3:00 Brazil BR%sT
+ -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2002 Oct 1
+ -3:00 - BRT
#
# Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands)
Zone America/Recife -2:19:36 - LMT 1914
@@ -461,7 +482,8 @@ Zone America/Recife -2:19:36 - LMT 1914
-3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30
-3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 15
-3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13
- -3:00 Brazil BR%sT
+ -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2002 Oct 1
+ -3:00 - BRT
#
# Tocantins (TO)
Zone America/Araguaina -3:12:48 - LMT 1914
@@ -477,7 +499,8 @@ Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914
-3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30
-3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 22
-3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13
- -3:00 Brazil BR%sT
+ -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2002 Oct 1
+ -3:00 - BRT
#
# Bahia (BA), Goias (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
# Espirito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Sao Paulo (SP), Parana (PR),
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