Hi,
Innovations for this year include begining of summer time on a Tuesday (2004/11/02, that happens to be a religious holiday for mourning the dead). I *really* don't believe that this starting on Tuesday will last. States are the same as last year.
Not really. This year the state of Mato Grosso has been included in the DST observing states list. It hadn't DST last year.
Oops! Bad phrasing and serious confusion. I actually wanted to say that I don't really believe that starting of summer time on this holiday will be a practice for the years to come.
I agree with you. This strange date is related to brazilian voting machines not being able to deal with time changes between first and second rounds of the municipal elections. I don't think anyone proposed tuesdays as a permanent DST entry date, not even the technicians responsable for the technical aspects of the decree. As far as I can tell, the patch I sent to this list yesterday includes theses changes in tzdata just fine. I'm afraid there will have to be another tzdata2004 edition soon, before October, the 17th, I mean. Best regards, Rodrigo Severo