Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Taupter wrote: John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming soon... Coca Cola!. Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think. Taupter I don't think the original poster intended to imply that Brazil was uncivilized. Rather, being in the tropical zone, the country gets roughly the same number of hours of daylight all year long and so a summer daylight savings time doesn't make sense. - Kris
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
I don't think the original poster intended to imply that Brazil was uncivilized. Rather, being in the tropical zone, the country gets roughly the same number of hours of daylight all year long and so a summer daylight savings time doesn't make sense. - Kris Kris, I understand your points, all very known by every first grade student. Exactly by the exposed by you we have daylight savings. Listen: If the sun rises and goes down in the same hour, people who commonly reach home 19:00 (night) will reach home 18:00 (sunset). Shops and alike will close sooner, whitout need to use artificial illumination in the end of the work day. Really, daylight savings could be useful during all the year. By the way, I have some friends around the world, and once one came to my country, and I went to the airport to wait for her. When we met, she said she was amazed by the size of cities and towers. She said that she believed that Brazil was a large rain forest, with indians and alike. Then we went to MacDonalds to take a lunch and talk some nonsense. Um abraco a todos (A hug to all) Claudio Silveira
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Taupter wrote: Really, daylight savings could be useful during all the year. Is this a joke? - Kris
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: Taupter wrote: John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming soon... Coca Cola!. Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think. Taupter I don't think the original poster intended to imply that Brazil was uncivilized. Rather, being in the tropical zone, the country gets roughly the same number of hours of daylight all year long and so a summer daylight savings time doesn't make sense. This is true for the northern parts of Brazil (and there's no daylight savings time there), but in the central and southern parts the daylight savings time is useful. If you look in a map, you'll see that part of the country lies outside of the intertropical zone. Bruno.
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
John Hasler wrote: Mario O.de Menezes writes: That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country? - Kris
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Kristopher Johnson writes: Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country? If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight savings time in the tropics. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kristopher Johnson writes: Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country? If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight savings time in the tropics. It isn't much better in the north, where daylight savings time may shift sunrise from 1AM to 2AM, and sunset from 11PM to midnight. Of course, it never really gets dark during that time, so you don't even notice it. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming soon... Coca Cola!. Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think. Taupter
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Hi, I was able to find some info about daylight savings setting in other Linux list. Thanks for your concerns about Brazil. BTW, I think we'll have daylight savings for while :-)) BTW again, zic(8) is the program which compiles the time zone and somebody provided an updated file with correct daylight savings beginning and end for this year. thanks again []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
I wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Taupter writes: Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think. What's that got to do with it seasonal variation in daylight? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Taupter wrote: John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming soon... Coca Cola!. Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think. Hey, settle down there, guy! If I may be so presumptuous, I think John's point was that there's so little difference in the tropics in amount of daylight between summer and winter. True story, not even tangentially on-topic: In high school I was in a car with 3 other guys going to play tennis doubles. I knew two of the other guys, but the 3rd, a friend of one of the others, was unknown to me (he looked kind of dark; I thought he was Oriental). Someone mentioned South America, and I said, Aw, all they do in South America is blow darts. (Yes, it was a lousy, bigoted attempt at humor.) The dark guy piped up and said, I assure you, we do not just blow darts. I was so embarrassed, I didn't even say anything. I just looked at the floor.
[OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Mario O.de Menezes writes: That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
On 30 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: Mario O.de Menezes writes: That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? our government! and they haven't any plans for the future, that is, if I would like to know the begin and end of the daylight saving in year 2005 I'll have to wait till approximately August/2005 when government will make the law :-( []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
