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@@ -19,19 +19,21 @@
#
# 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 (2017-04-09):
+# 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.
@@ -72,17 +74,19 @@
# +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)
+# 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' also seems to have caught on; the others are rare but are paired
-# with better-attested non-DST abbreviations.
+# '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 -
@@ -383,10 +387,17 @@
# 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
@@ -854,98 +865,65 @@
# from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch....
# I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in
# <https://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
# with the patch.
-# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08):
-# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules,
-# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last
-# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after
-# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were
-# determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the
-# results integrated by hand into the table below.
-# (let ((islamic-year 1437))
-# (require 'cal-islam)
-# (while (< islamic-year 1460)
-# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
-# (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
-# (sunday 0))
-# (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7)))
-# (while (/= sunday (mod b 7))
-# (setq b (1+ b)))
-# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
-# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
-# (insert
-# (format
-# (concat "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 3:00\t0\t-\n"
-# "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 2:00\t1:00\tS\n")
-# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
-# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
-# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
+# From Mohamed Essedik Najd (2018-10-26):
+# Today, a Moroccan government council approved the perpetual addition
+# of 60 minutes to the regular Moroccan timezone.
+# From Brian Inglis (2018-10-26):
+# http://www.maroc.ma/fr/actualites/le-conseil-de-gouvernement-adopte-un-projet-de-decret-relatif-lheure-legale-stipulant-le
# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-
-Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2009 only - Aug 21 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2012 2013 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2012 2013 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2012 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 7 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2013 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2014 2021 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 -
+Rule Morocco 2013 2018 - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2014 2018 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 28 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 14 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 5 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 21 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 2 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 2 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 13 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 17 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 5 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 9 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2020 only - Apr 19 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2021 only - Apr 11 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 8 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2026 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 17 2:00 1:00 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
- 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
- 1:00 - CET 1986
- 0:00 Morocco WE%sT
+ 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 1984 Mar 16
+ 1:00 - +01 1986
+ 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 2018 Oct 27
+ 1:00 - +01
# Western Sahara
#
# From Gwillim Law (2013-10-22):
# A correspondent who is usually well informed about time zone matters
@@ -956,11 +934,12 @@
# Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT,
# 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 WE%sT
+ 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 2018 Oct 27
+ 1:00 - +01
# Mozambique
#
# Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT.
# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
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