At 20 Sep 2003 08:24:57 -0300, Vitor de Matos Carvalho writes:
I saw that in the archive zone.tab exists America/Fortaleza, America/Recife, America/Maceio, I suggest to make one alone something as America/Bahia Ilhéus NE Brazil (BA, SE, AL, PE, PI, CE, RN, PI, MA), instead of having some entrances for some states of the NE of the Brazil, would only join everything in one, in view of that no state of the NE will have hourly of summer.
If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that instead of giving the user these choices for Brazil: Atlantic islands Amapa, E Para NE Brazil (MA, PI, CE, RN, PR) Pernambuco Tocantins Alagoas, Sergipe Bahia S & SE Brazil (GO, DF, MG, ES, RJ, SP, PR, SC, RS) Mato Grosso do Sul Mato Grosso W Para, Rondonia Roraima E Amazonas W Amazonas Acre we simplify matters, and give only these choices: Atlantic islands east Brazil without daylight-saving time (DST) (AL, AP, BA, CE, MA, East PA, PB, mainland PE, PI, RN, SE, TO) east Brazil with DST (DF, ES, GO, MG, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP) central Brazil without DST (east AM, MT, west PA, RO, RR) central Brazil with DST (MS) western Brazil (AC, west AM) That would indeed be simpler for users that care only about current and predicted future timestamps. But it would mishandle timestamps in the recent past. For example, if you lived in Mato Grosso and chose central Brazil without DST, your files dated January 2003 would have time stamps that were off by one hour, since MG observed DST last year but not this year.