From: Stefan Johansson [SMTP:jason@stefan-johansson.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 7:41 PM Yes, 1999h reflects the right DST start and stop dates for Brazil, but decree 3188 of 1999-09-30 included the states of SE, AL, PE, PB, RN, CE, PI, MA and RR, further to those already mentioned in decree 3150 of 1999-08-23. Please make the necessary changes in the Brazilian rules, since I am not familiar with the syntax. It should be OK; those changes were installed soon after Decree 3,188 came out. As a consequence, I would like to suggest the following Brazilian time zones: I think the only difference between your suggestions and what's currently in the tz database is the choice of the canonical representative for each region. The TZ database uses Sao Paulo where you suggest Brasilia; Sao Paulo seems correct to me, since Sao Paulo is larger. For Tocantins, though, the TZ database uses Araguaina instead of Palmas. Here I'm not so sure which is right, since I don't know which city is larger, and I don't know how distinctive a name `Palmas' is.