On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Arthur David Olson < olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
Below find proposed changes to files in the time zone package: * australasia, europe, and southamerica: changes by Halász Sándor Viktor to fix URLs. * africa: changes to reflect Mauritius's 2008-2009 DST experiment. * southamerica and zone.tab: changes to reflect Brazilian time zone realignments.
As usual, I plan to let these percolate over a weekend; if no problems are found tzdata2008d.tar.gz should appear on 2008-07-07.
The text by Paul Schulze about Brazilian timezones is missing all accented characters. Here is the text with the proper characters: + # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24): + # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diário Oficial da União"...) + # in Brazil there are changes in the timezones, effective today (00:00am + # at June 24, 2008) as follows: + # + # a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the + # part of the Amazonas state that had this timezone now being put to the + # timezone UTC+4 + # b) The whole Pará state now is put at timezone UTC+3, instead of just + # part of it, as was before. + # + # This change follows a proposal of senator Tião Viana of Acre state, that + # proposed it due to concerns about open television channels displaying + # programs inappropriate to youths in the states that had the timezone + # UTC+5 too early in the night. In the occasion, some more corrections + # were proposed, trying to unify the timezones of any given state. This + # change modifies timezone rules defined in decree 2.784 of 18 June, + # 1913. Regards, Rodrigo Severo