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*** 441,462 **** # Lesotho # See Africa/Johannesburg. # Liberia ! # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): ! # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch ! # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. ! # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. ! # Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; ! # go with Shanks & Pottenger. ! # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and ! # Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time ! -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May 0:00 - GMT ############################################################################### # Libya --- 441,469 ---- # Lesotho # See Africa/Johannesburg. # Liberia ! # ! # From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02): ! # ! # The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30. ! # ! # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UTC offset ! # that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. The 1972 change was on ! # 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of: ! # Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of ! # President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. ! # Monrovia: Executive Mansion. ! # ! # Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric ! # abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit. ! # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time ! -0:44:30 - MMT 1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT 0:00 - GMT ############################################################################### # Libya
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