Paul, In the site of the presidency of the republic, still the number of the decree does not consist. I ordered an email for the government asking where I can get the number of the decree. I am waiting a reply. In the site of the Ministry of Mines and Energy - http://www.mme.gov.br/noticias/noticias.htm has an official notice, however it does not have the number of the decree. You can have access to this information not official on the summer time here in the Brazil in the following sites: http://globonews.globo.com/GloboNews/article/0,6993,A603673-2990,00.html http://jbonline.terra.com.br/papel/brasilia/2003/09/19/jorbrs20030919011.htm... Thus that I will be with the link address where has the number of the decree I repasses for you. Regards, --------------------------------------------------- Vitor de Matos Carvalho - #5602098 Softinfo Network Administrator Salvador - Bahia - Brazil FreeBSD: The silent Workhorse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@twinsun.com> To: "Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires" <p@ppires.org> Cc: <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov>; "Vitor de Matos Carvalho" <vitor@softinfo.com.br> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 7:52 PM Subject: Re: TZ changes for Brazil for 2003/2004
At 18 Sep 2003 15:36:28 -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires writes:
Attached are my diffs to tzdata2003c for the just-released rules for Brazilian summer time 2003/2004.
Thanks for reporting this.
Since this year two states that traditionally obeyed summer time are no longer doing so, I had to create two new cities, namely Salvador and Campo Grande, for the states of Bahia (BA) and Mato Grosso do Sul (MS).
Unfortunately "America/Salvador" is a fairly ambiguous name, since there are many cities called "Salvador" in the Americas. I am thinking that perhaps we should call that entry "America/Bahia" instead. Normally we don't give state names to locations, but this might be time to make an exception. We already made an exception for the city of San Salvador, in Central America, for the same reason; its entry is called "America/El_Salvador".
# Another change for 2003/2004 (not in http://pcdsh01.on.br/ yet -- ON has # been lagging behind lastest decrees; this information was found in # http://oglobo.globo.com/online/pais/110274614.asp).
Unfortunately I can't view that page; it asks for subscriber information.
Do you have a presidential decree number? I'd like to refer to the official decree.
The previous daylight-saving decree wias 4,399, and we're referring to <http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm> rather than to <http://pcdsh01.on.br/figuras/HV4399.gif> because HTML is better than GIF for this sort of thing. If you can give me a decree number, perhaps I can deduce the URL at www.presidencia.gov.br.
Rule Brazil 2003 max - Oct Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2004 max - Feb Sun>=14 0:00 0 -
"Sun>=14" is unusual. Normally it would be "Sun>=15" (the 3rd Sunday of the month). There's no difference between "Sun>=14" and "Sun>=15" for October 2003 and February 2004, so I assume it's OK to change these occurrences to "Sun>=15".
Thank you again for providing the updated information.