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Bug#910544: tzdata: Brazil 2018-2019 DST changed



On 2018-10-07 18:49, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2018e-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Recently it was decided that this year DST will start in Brazil on
> November 18th instead of November 4th. The corresponding thread on the
> upstream mailing list starts at:
> https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-October/026917.html
> 
> The maintainer said he will wait for the official decree for making a
> release, but the required changes were already made in the git
> repository.

Do you know how long it usually take for a presidential decree to be
sign? We do not want to propagate the wrong changes to users.

> Given the very short window to update every system in the country, it
> would be nice if we could have a release as soon as possible.

There are still four week before the change, we have seen much shorter
timeframe in the order of a few days, so we should not rush it too much
either.

Aurelien

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