Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Kristopher Johnson
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread 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 Kris, I understand your

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Taupter wrote: Really, daylight savings could be useful during all the year. Is this a joke? - Kris

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Kristopher Johnson
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Carl Johnson
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Taupter
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!.

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread John Hasler
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 Hasler

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
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

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-09-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
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