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FW: Brazil can't decide on daylight savings
by Olson, Arthur David Feb. 12, 1998

Feb. 12, 1998

---------- From: Daniel C. Sobral[SMTP:dcs@gns.com.br] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 1998 10:50 AM To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Brazil can't decide on daylight savings 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(a)gns.com.br Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. <</usr/src/share/zoneinfo/patch>> begin 600 patch M*BHJ('-O=71H86UE<FEC82YO<FEG"5=E9"!&96(@,3$@,C$Z,#8Z,#D@,3DY M.`T*+2TM('-O=71H86UE<FEC80E7960@1F5B(#$Q(#(Q.C`V.C4X(#$Y.3@- M"BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*BHJ*@T**BHJ(#(W,BPR-S<@*BHJ*@T*+2TM(#(W,BPR M-SD@+2TM+0T*("!2=6QE"4)R87II;`DQ.3DT"3$Y.34)+0E&96()4W5N/CTQ M-0D@,#HP,`DP"5,-"B`@4G5L90E"<F%Z:6P),3DY-@EM87@)+0E&96()4W5N M/CTQ,0D@,#HP,`DP"5,-"B`@4G5L90E"<F%Z:6P),3DY-@EM87@)+0E/8W0) M4W5N/CTQ"2`P.C`P"3$Z,#`)1`T**R!2=6QE"4)R87II;`DQ.3DW"6]N;'D) M+0E/8W0)(#8)(#`Z,#`),3HP,`E$#0HK(%)U;&4)0G)A>FEL"3$Y.3@);VYL M>0DM"4UA<@D@,0D@,#HP,`DP"5,-"B`@#0H@(",(a)6F]N90E.04U%"0E'351/ >1D8)4E5,15,)1D]234%4"5M53E1)3%T-"B`@(PT* ` end

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Brazil can't decide on daylight savings
by Daniel C. Sobral Feb. 12, 1998

Feb. 12, 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(a)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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symlinks
by Olson, Arthur David Feb. 3, 1998

Feb. 3, 1998

We do indeed need an addition to #define HAVE_SYMLINK in private.h; I've added it. The peculiar #if (HAVE_SYMLINK - 0) compiles when HAVE_SYMLINK is undefined; it's the form used in many places in the code. Since the behavior of zic is being changed, a warning seems mandatory. Since there's been one reported challenge worldwide with the lack of symlinks over the last decade, I don't sense an urgent need to be able to disable the warning. --ado *** 7.46/private.h Tue Feb 3 09:20:01 1998 --- 7.47/private.h Tue Feb 3 09:20:01 1998 *************** *** 21,27 **** #ifndef lint #ifndef NOID ! static char privatehid[] = "@(#)private.h 7.46"; #endif /* !defined NOID */ #endif /* !defined lint */ --- 21,27 ---- #ifndef lint #ifndef NOID ! static char privatehid[] = "@(#)private.h 7.47"; #endif /* !defined NOID */ #endif /* !defined lint */ *************** *** 46,51 **** --- 46,55 ---- #define HAVE_STRERROR 0 #endif /* !defined HAVE_STRERROR */ + #ifndef HAVE_SYMLINK + #define HAVE_SYMLINK 1 + #endif /* !defined HAVE_SYMLINK */ + #ifndef HAVE_UNISTD_H #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1 #endif /* !defined HAVE_UNISTD_H */

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