Bug#215981: libc6: Please add Brazilian daylight saving data for 2003/2004 summer
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
cesarb@nitnet.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br
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