From: Marcos Tadeu [SMTP:marcos@MicroLink.com.br] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 12:11 PM There are a DS for 1998(in)/1999(out). The Brazilian official page is http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html Thanks very much for the information and reference. It appears that Brazil now has the world's best official source for daylight-saving time data: they have online copies of most of their DST decrees, dating back all the way to 1931! I haven't had time to check the older data against ours (I don't read Portuguese, which slows me down a bit), but here's a proposed patch to propagate the new data now, along with references to the (unchecked) older data. This patch also removes an old comment by Guy Harris which is now clearly incorrect. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 1998.8 retrieving revision 1998.8.0.3 diff -u -r1998.8 -r1998.8.0.3 --- southamerica 1998/09/24 14:46:11 1998.8 +++ southamerica 1998/09/28 20:33:22 1998.8.0.3 @@ -184,14 +184,6 @@ # Brazil -# From Guy Harris: -# The OAG lists 1987-10-25 and 1988-02-12 as the starting and -# ending dates, giving them as "estimated date(s) based on previous year". We -# infer a rule here from one example, always a dangerous practice.... Yes, -# they really do switch on Saturday, according to the OAG. -# "[America/Porto_Acre]" is for the [State] of Acre; -# "[America/Noronha]" is for Fernando De Noronha. - # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade. @@ -247,33 +239,78 @@ # error. Line 193 say "Territory of Acre". It is not a territory anymore # but a state. +# From Marcos Tadeu (1998-09-27): +# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/verao1.html"> +# Brazilian official page +# </a> +# +# From Paul Eggert (1998-09-28): +# The official decrees referenced below are taken from +# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html"> +# Decretos sobre o Horario de Verao no Brasil +# </a> (1998-09-25, in Portuguese). +# I don't read Portuguese, and haven't been able to verify them against +# the Shanks and IATA data; there do seem to be minor discrepancies. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20.466</a> (1931-01-10) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm">21.896</a> (1932-01-10) Rule Brazil 1931 only - Oct 3 11:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1932 1933 - Apr 1 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1932 only - Oct 3 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV23195.htm">23.195</a> (1933-10-10) +# revoked DST. +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27496.htm">27.496</a> (1949-11-24) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV27998.htm">27.998</a> (1950-04-13) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV32308.htm">32.308</a> (1953-02-24) Rule Brazil 1949 1952 - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1951 1953 - Apr 1 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV34724.htm">34.724</a> (1953-11-30) +# revoked DST. +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV52700.htm">52.700</a> (1963-10-18) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53071.htm">53.071</a> (1963-12-03) Rule Brazil 1963 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV53604.htm">53.604</a> (1964-02-25) Rule Brazil 1964 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV55639.htm">55.639</a> (1965-01-27) Rule Brazil 1965 only - Jan 31 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1965 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57303.htm">57.303</a> (1965-11-22) Rule Brazil 1965 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV57843.htm">57.843</a> (1966-02-18) Rule Brazil 1966 1968 - Mar 1 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1966 1967 - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV63429.htm">63.429</a> (1968-10-15) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV91698.htm">91.698</a> (1985-09-27) Rule Brazil 1985 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree 92.310 (1986-01-21) +# Decree 92.463 (1986-03-13) Rule Brazil 1986 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S +# Decree 93.316 (1986-10-01) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV94922.htm">94.922</a> (1987-09-22) Rule Brazil 1986 1987 - Oct Sat<=28 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1987 only - Feb 14 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1988 only - Feb 7 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV96676.htm">96.676</a> (1988-09-12) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV98077.htm">98.077</a> (1989-08-21) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV99530.htm">99.530</a> (1990-09-17) +# Decree 99.629 (1990-10-19) +# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1991.htm">Unnumbered decree</a> (1991-09-25): +# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1992.htm">Unnumbered decree</a> (1992-10-16): Rule Brazil 1989 only - Jan 22 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1988 1989 - Oct Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1990 1991 - Feb Sun>=11 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1990 1992 - Oct Sun>=20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1992 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV942.htm">942</a> (1993-09-28) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1252.htm">1.252</a> (1994-09-22) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1636.htm">1.636</a> (1995-09-14) +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV1674.htm">1.674</a> (1995-10-13) Rule Brazil 1993 1995 - Oct Sun>=11 0:00 1:00 D Rule Brazil 1993 only - Jan 31 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1994 1995 - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV2000.htm">2.000</a> (1996-09-04) Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb Sun>=11 0:00 0 S Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D # From Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@gns.com.br> (1998-02-12): @@ -284,15 +321,23 @@ # to help dealing with the shortages of electric power. # # From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): -# Reference for 1997-10-06 change: # <a href="http://churchnet.ucsm.ac.uk/news/files2/news165.htm"> # Brazil Prepares for Papal Visit # </a>, # Church Net UK (1997-10-02). +# +# Decree 2.317 (1997-09-04) Rule Brazil 1997 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 D +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV2495.JPG">2.495</a> +# (1998-02-10) Rule Brazil 1998 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 S -Rule Brazil 1998 max - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Brazil 1999 max - Feb Sun>=11 0:00 0 S +# Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/Hv98.jpg">2.780</a> (1998-09-11) +# specifies only the 1998-10-11 and 1999-02-21 transitions; +# after that, these rules are guesses and are quite possibly wrong, +# but they are more likely than no DST at all. +Rule Brazil 1998 max - Oct Sun>=11 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Brazil 1999 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 S + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] #