New rules for summer time in Brazil
Dear folks, At last, Brazilian decree on summer time for 2004/2005 is out (it can be retrieved from Presidency website at <https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm> and National Press web site at <http://www.in.gov.br/materias/xml/do/secao1/1187435.xml>). 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. If you have doubts, contact me. Regards, -- Pappires ... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
Dear folks,
At last, Brazilian decree on summer time for 2004/2005 is out (it can be retrieved from Presidency website at <https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm> and National Press web site at <http://www.in.gov.br/materias/xml/do/secao1/1187435.xml>).
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.
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.
If you have doubts, contact me.
Regards, -- Pappires
... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.
-- Pappires ... Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis.
Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org> writes:
<https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm>
Thanks for the warning. I see that there is already a revised version of this announcement here: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm This revision adds Mato Grosso to the list of states that will observe DST this year. Apparently the Brazilian government has changed their publication method. Their old URLs (e.g.,: http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm ) still work, but the new ones use a different pattern, which is more complicated. If you know of a simpler pattern that would work, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
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).
That's very strange indeed.
I *really* don't believe that this starting on Tuesday will last.
Please let us know of any further changes. If I don't hear any other news soon, I'll send out proposed patches that agree with the current proposal (which is to add Mato Grosso, and to change the start date to November 2). We should get a new version out soon, as the current database is incorrect for time stamps starting October 17.
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