On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:41:37AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > Hi, > > At Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:47:28 -0300, > Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > Brazilian daylight saving time start/finish dates are different every > > year. Conectiva just released a patched glibc with this year dates[1]. > > > > In case you do not want to go chasing their patches, the announcement > > has a link to the authoritative source[2], which says that it begins > > 2003/Oct/19 00:00 and finishes 2004/Feb/15 00:00. > > > > (Yeah, too late to get a package out in testing before then. Already > > gotten used to having to fudge timezones by hand every fscking time.) > > > > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/53889/ > > [2] https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/decreto/2003/D4844.htm > > Thanks for your report, in glibc 2.3.2.ds1-13, it should be fixed. > Please confirm it. If you have no objection, I'll close this report.
The zdump output for Brazil/East and America/Sao_Paulo looks fine to me, didn't check the other Brazilian states. Let's hope this year they announce it a bit earlier ;-) (I have no hope of the "Oct Sun>=15" guess being right, but the Sunday part is right more often than not) -- Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
