On 9/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bobby Rullo</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:br@osafoundation.org">br@osafoundation.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div>That makes sense now, although I think it would be clearer to change the last Zone line to stop in 1989 and add one more Zone line like so:</div><span class="q"><div><br></div># Zone&nbsp;&nbsp;NAME&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GMTOFF&nbsp;&nbsp;RULES&nbsp;&nbsp; FORMAT&nbsp;&nbsp;[UNTIL]
<br></span>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;-6:00&nbsp;&nbsp; Salv&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C%sT &nbsp; &nbsp;1989<br><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;-6:00&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;CST <br><br><div>The conceptual block that I had to overcome was that I thought of Rules as things that happen every year, and if there&#39;s not a rule for that year, it doesn&#39;t apply. In other words I didn&#39;t grok that &quot;the last rule sticks&quot;
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think I haven&#39;t made myself clear. It isn&#39;t a question of &quot;the last rule sticking&quot;. Rules defines <span style="font-weight: bold;">changes</span> in presented time.
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">time</span> defined by the last rule, i.e., the last change in time, <span style="font-weight: bold;">sticks</span>, not the last rule. See the diference?
<br><br><br>Rodrigo Severo<br><br></div></div>