Bug 210132

Summary:	Changes to Brazil DST date
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	mnewsome
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Description Petr Machata 2006-10-10 11:26:42 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #210058 +++

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 2 RHEL Program Management 2006-10-10 13:46:17 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-10-18 16:06:45 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0714.html