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Diffstat (limited to 'africa')
| -rw-r--r-- | africa | 73 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 31 deletions
@@ -103,17 +103,16 @@ Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 16 # Cape Verde / Cabo Verde # -# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): -# Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to +02. -# For now, ignore that and follow the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree -# (see Europe/Lisbon). +# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): +# For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon. +# Shanks gives 1907 instead for the transition to -02. # # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1912 Jan 01 2:00u # Praia - -2:00 - -02 1942 Sep - -2:00 1:00 -01 1945 Oct 15 - -2:00 - -02 1975 Nov 25 2:00 - -1:00 - -01 + -2:00 - %z 1942 Sep + -2:00 1:00 %z 1945 Oct 15 + -2:00 - %z 1975 Nov 25 2:00 + -1:00 - %z # Chad # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -345,14 +344,12 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct # Guinea-Bissau # -# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): -# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, -# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree -# (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect. +# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): +# For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon. # # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u - -1:00 - -01 1975 + -1:00 - %z 1975 0:00 - GMT # Comoros @@ -417,10 +414,10 @@ Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1908 May - 2:30 - +0230 1928 Jun 30 24:00 + 2:30 - %z 1928 Jun 30 24:00 3:00 - EAT 1930 Jan 4 24:00 - 2:30 - +0230 1936 Dec 31 24:00 - 2:45 - +0245 1942 Jul 31 24:00 + 2:30 - %z 1936 Dec 31 24:00 + 2:45 - %z 1942 Jul 31 24:00 3:00 - EAT # Liberia @@ -591,7 +588,7 @@ Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis - 4:00 Mauritius +04/+05 + 4:00 Mauritius %z # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius @@ -1071,10 +1068,10 @@ Rule Morocco 2087 only - May 11 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 - 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 1984 Mar 16 - 1:00 - +01 1986 - 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 2018 Oct 28 3:00 - 1:00 Morocco +01/+00 + 0:00 Morocco %z 1984 Mar 16 + 1:00 - %z 1986 + 0:00 Morocco %z 2018 Oct 28 3:00 + 1:00 Morocco %z # Western Sahara # @@ -1088,9 +1085,9 @@ Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 # since most of it was then controlled by Morocco. Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún - -1:00 - -01 1976 Apr 14 - 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 2018 Oct 28 3:00 - 1:00 Morocco +01/+00 + -1:00 - %z 1976 Apr 14 + 0:00 Morocco %z 2018 Oct 28 3:00 + 1:00 Morocco %z # Botswana # Burundi @@ -1101,13 +1098,27 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún # Zambia # Zimbabwe # -# Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT. -# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree -# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf -# merely made it official? +# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): +# For timestamps before Mozambique's independence, see commentary for +# Europe/Lisbon. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-24): +# The London Gazette, 1903-04-03, page 2245, says that +# as of 1903-03-03 a time ball at the port of Lourenço Marques +# (as Maputo was then called) was dropped daily at 13:00:00 LMT, +# corresponding to 22:49:41.7 GMT, so local time was +02:10:18.3. +# Conversely, the newspaper South Africa, 1909-02-09, page 321, +# says the port had just installed an apparatus that communicated +# "from the controlling clock in the new Observatory at Reuben Point ... +# exact mean South African time, i.e., 30 deg., or 2 hours East of Greenwich". +# Although Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT, +# evidently the port transitioned to CAT after 1903-03-03 but before +# the Portuguese legal transition of 1912-01-01 (see Europe/Lisbon commentary). +# For lack of better info, list 1909 as the transition date. # # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar + #STDOFF 2:10:18.3 +Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:18 - LMT 1909 2:00 - CAT # Namibia @@ -1172,7 +1183,7 @@ Rule Namibia 1995 2017 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 -1:00 WAT # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 - 1:30 - +0130 1903 Mar + 1:30 - %z 1903 Mar 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence @@ -1260,7 +1271,7 @@ Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:35 - LMT 1905 Jul 1 0:00 - GMT 1908 Jul 1 0:13:35 - LMT 1914 Jan 1 - 0:30 - +0030 1919 Sep 1 + 0:30 - %z 1919 Sep 1 1:00 - WAT # São Tomé and Príncipe |