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# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/bbc-19410418.png
# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ho-19410421.png
-# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21):
+# From Sir Alexander Maxwell (1941-04-21) in the letter mentioned above:
# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time
# which is to be introduced in May....
# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time"
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta
# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02):
# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077
# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01):
-# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
+# The above-mentioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also,
# https://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara
# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time.
@@ -2380,10 +2380,17 @@ Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:45 - LMT 1884
# https://oal.ul.pt/hora-legal/legislacao/
# working backward through references of revocation and abrogation to
# Decreto-Lei 47233 of 1966-10-01, the last time DST was abolished across the
-# mainland and its adjacent islands. Because of that reference, it is
-# therefore assumed that DST rules in the islands prior to 1966 were like that
-# of the mainland, though most legislation of the time didn't explicitly
-# specify DST practices for the islands.
+# mainland and its adjacent islands.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2026-05-26):
+# Observance of DST on the Azores and Madeira was explicitly covered by
+# mainland legislation in:
+# - Portaria 11767 of 1947-03-28 for 1947,
+# - Portaria 12286 of 1948-02-19 for 1948, and
+# - Decreto-Lei 37048 of 1948-09-07 through its revocation in 1966.
+# (See mainland commentary, above.) However, most legislation prior to 1947
+# didn't explicitly call out these "adjacent islands", so we assume that DST
+# rules on the islands prior to 1947 were also like that of the mainland.
Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada
-1:54:32 - HMT 1912 Jan 1 2:00u # Horta MT
# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support %z.
@@ -2616,7 +2623,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2011/11/novyie-granitsyi-chasovyih-poyasov-v-sssr/
#
# From Paul Eggert (2018-07-16):
-# Perhaps someone could translate the above-mentioned link and use it
+# Perhaps someone could translate the link mentioned above, and use it
# to correct our data for the ex-Soviet Union. It cites the following:
# «Поясное время и новые границы часовых поясов» / сост. П.Н. Долгов,
# отв. ред. Г.Д. Бурдун - М: Комитет стандартов, мер и измерительных