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*** 19,37 ****
#
# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
# questions.
#
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
! # From Paul Eggert (2017-04-09):
#
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
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#
# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
# questions.
#
+ # tzdb data for Africa and environs
+
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
! # From Paul Eggert (2018-05-27):
#
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
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# +01 WAT West Africa Time
# Murray's suggestion seems to have caught on in news reports and the like.
# I vaguely recall 'WAT' also being used for -01 in the past but
# cannot now come up with solid citations.
#
! # I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome!
! # +02 WAST West Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
! # +03 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
! # +03 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
# +03 EAT East Africa Time
! # 'EAT' also seems to have caught on; the others are rare but are paired
! # with better-attested non-DST abbreviations.
# Algeria
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 -
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# +01 WAT West Africa Time
# Murray's suggestion seems to have caught on in news reports and the like.
# I vaguely recall 'WAT' also being used for -01 in the past but
# cannot now come up with solid citations.
#
! # I invented the following abbreviations in the 1990s:
! # +02 WAST West Africa Summer Time
! # +03 CAST Central Africa Summer Time
! # +03 SAST South Africa Summer Time
# +03 EAT East Africa Time
! # 'EAT' seems to have caught on and is in current timestamps, and though
! # the other abbreviations are rarer and are only in past timestamps,
! # they are paired with better-attested non-DST abbreviations.
! # Corrections are welcome.
# Algeria
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 -
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# See Africa/Lagos.
# Eritrea
# Ethiopia
# See Africa/Nairobi.
+ #
+ # Unfortunately tzdb records only Western clock time in use in Ethiopia,
+ # as the tzdb format is not up to properly recording a common Ethiopian
+ # timekeeping practice that is based on solar time. See:
+ # Mortada D. If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double
+ # check the time. PRI's The World. 2015-01-30 15:15 -05.
+ # https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-ethiopia-you-better-double-check-time
# Gabon
# See Africa/Lagos.
# Gambia
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