Bug 210058

Summary:	Changes to Brazil DST date
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2006-10-09 19:29:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Because of the second round of Brazilian elections and the bad programming of
the voting machines, DST is being delayed again this year, to avoid the need for
reprogramming all of the machines before the second round.

Current tzdata thinks the change is on Oct 15, but it was delayed to Nov 5. 
Also, the end is scheduled by tzdata for Feb 18, but the official date is Feb 25.

It would be nice if this could be fixed in both FC6 (such that it doesn't get
out with this incorrect info) and earlier versions, and there's only one week
left :-(

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tzdata-2006j-1.fc6

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.export TZ=America/Sao_Paulo; date -d 'Nov 4 23:59 2006'; date -d 'Nov 5 01:00
2006'; date -d 'Feb 24 23:59 2007'; date -d 'Feb 25 01:00 2007'
  
Actual results:
Sat Nov  4 23:59:00 BRST 2006
Sun Nov  5 01:00:00 BRST 2006
Sat Feb 24 23:59:00 BRT 2007
Sun Feb 25 01:00:00 BRT 2007

Expected results:
Sat Nov  4 23:59:00 BRT 2006
Sun Nov  5 01:00:00 BRST 2006
Sat Feb 24 23:59:00 BRST 2007
Sun Feb 25 01:00:00 BRT 2007

Additional info:
The presidential decree that establishes these changes is available at
http://www.mme.gov.br/download.do?attachmentId=8112&download (it's a PDF file,
even though the MIME time and the extensions don't say so)

Comment 1 Alexandre Oliva 2006-10-09 19:45:51 UTC

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/1282 has a proposed patch that
includes this fix.  It's probably not final, but it fixes the immediate problem.

Comment 2 Petr Machata 2006-10-10 12:29:00 UTC

I applied the proposed patch.  It should be in rawhide and FC5 within days.  I
don't know about FC6, we are in deep freeze state, but I contacted release
engineering anyway.