Vitor is now on the time zone mailing list. This and the next couple of messages regarding Brazilian DST are addressed by the changes circulated on the list by Paul Eggert; I'm forwarding the messages for completeness. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Vitor de Matos Carvalho [mailto:vitor@softinfo.com.br] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:16 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Brazil summer time its wrong. Hi... :)) I am not sending the archive: southamerica because I do not know right as it functions. I am only sending this email to notify of that today in day 13 of October of 2002 some operational systems as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD RedHat, Linux Conectiva, Debian, and others, are started to define this date of today as the beginning of Brazil summer time. This date is missed, the beginning of Brazil summer time is defined to have beginning:

From zero hour of day 3 of November of 2002, until zero hour of day 16 of February of 2003, it will invigorate the summer hour, in part of the Brazilian Domestic territory, advanced in sixty minutes in relation to the legal hour. The states that will be enclosed in summer teams are: States of the Rio Grande Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Tocantins, Bahia and in the Federal District

Any doubt can be consulted by the official page of the Presidency of the Republic. http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/decreto/2002/D4399.htm Regards, Vitor de Matos Carvalho System Network Administrator - Softinfo Network FreeBSD - The Power To Serve