You have been subscribed to a public bug by Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand): Binary package hint: tzdata
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2008/decreto/d6558.htm According to the above decree, Brazil has now a permanent rule for daylight saving time: DST begins always on the 3rd sunday in October. No exception. DST ends always on the 3rd sunday in February, except when that date is the carnival sunday (49 days before Easter). In such a case, the DST ends on the next sunday, the 4th sunday of february. Yes, the rule itself is quite complicated and very stupid. It doesn't fit in the zic structure, since it has no lunar calendar calculations. Therefore, it must be informed year by year in the file 'southamerica'. I've written a Python script[1] to calculate it. That script generates the lines for 'southamerica'. That was the best I could do. Reengineering the zic compiler would be too much for me. :-) [1] http://hackers.propus.com.br/~marlon/dst/dst-brazil.py ** Affects: tzdata (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- New Brazilian DST rules, now permanent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278352 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
