Re: Brazilian timezones

[Patrick Smith]

Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
>   Recently the Brazilian government announced different time zones. I
> don't have all the details (I'm not even a Brazilian citizen), but,
> for example, the change to summer time this year is supposed to happen
> on November 3rd, while glibc thinks it has already
> happened. Obviously, the Brazil related timezone data files are now
> broken, and need to be fixed.

The canonical place to get the latest time zone information files is 
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.  See also 
http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm.

I'm not sure what's involved in replacing the files used by glibc with 
updated ones, but it's probably fairly simple.  Once you figure it out, 
that is.  :-)
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