time zone for Brasilia

[Robin Laing]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 11:21 3/12/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> Is it right that Brasilia has so many timezones, from GMT-3 up to GMT-8?
> 
> 
> Note that the country name is "Brazil" in English, "Brasil" in Spanish 
> and Portuguese (and presumably others as well). Brasilia is the capital 
> city.
> 
> That being said, Brazil is a huge country. On the 6,400-mile air trip 
> from Miami to São Paulo, well over half the trip is flown already inside 
> Brazilian territory. It covers a significant chunk of South America. But 
> for simplicity, I believe they only use two time zones: GMT-03 and GMT-04.
> 
Brazil has four time zones.
   <http://www.saunalahti.fi/~huuhilo/portuguese/gb_timezones.htm>
   <http://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/admin/unix/tz/america/>

One is for islands at GMT -2

-- 
Robin Laing