time zone for Brasilia

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 12.03.2004 schrieb Alexandre Strube um 18:07:
> Em Sex, 2004-03-12 às 14:02, Alexander Dalloz escreveu:
> > I wonder why several Brasilian users on the list have a time zone with
> > "GMT-8" which causes their postings to be in future.
> 
> That's odd. I'm using a timezone for brazilian northeast, which seems to
> be ok. Time zone for sao paulo was wrong some time ago... (in fact,
> there was someone from this list that complained a lot that time).

Your mail comes with GMT-3 like from many other Brasilian users too, in
contrast to

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Is it right that Brasilia has so many timezones, from GMT-3 up to GMT-8?

Alexander


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