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 426 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 427 Zone    Africa/Nairobi  2:27:16 -       LMT     1928 Jul
 428                         3:00    -       EAT     1930
 429                         2:30    -       +0230   1940
 430                         2:45    -       +0245   1960
 431                         3:00    -       EAT
 432 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa   # Ethiopia
 433 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara        # Eritrea
 434 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
 435 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
 436 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala       # Uganda
 437 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu     # Somalia
 438 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo  # Madagascar
 439 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
 440 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
 441 
 442 # Lesotho
 443 # See Africa/Johannesburg.
 444 
 445 # Liberia
 446 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
 447 # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
 448 # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.
 449 # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
 450 # Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan;
 451 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
 452 # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and
 453 # Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.







 454 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 455 Zone    Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 -      LMT     1882
 456                         -0:43:08 -      MMT     1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
 457                         -0:44:30 -      -004430 1972 May
 458                          0:00   -       GMT
 459 
 460 ###############################################################################
 461 
 462 # Libya
 463 
 464 # From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
 465 # Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
 466 # http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
 467 # Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc
 468 #
 469 # Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
 470 # http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
 471 #
 472 # From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
 473 # Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
 474 # The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
 475 # (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
 476 # lastFri instead of lastSun).
 477 




 426 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 427 Zone    Africa/Nairobi  2:27:16 -       LMT     1928 Jul
 428                         3:00    -       EAT     1930
 429                         2:30    -       +0230   1940
 430                         2:45    -       +0245   1960
 431                         3:00    -       EAT
 432 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa   # Ethiopia
 433 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara        # Eritrea
 434 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
 435 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
 436 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala       # Uganda
 437 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu     # Somalia
 438 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo  # Madagascar
 439 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
 440 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
 441 
 442 # Lesotho
 443 # See Africa/Johannesburg.
 444 
 445 # Liberia
 446 #
 447 # From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02):
 448 #
 449 # The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30.
 450 #
 451 # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UTC offset
 452 # that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.  The 1972 change was on
 453 # 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of:
 454 # Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of
 455 # President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972.
 456 # Monrovia: Executive Mansion.
 457 #
 458 # Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric
 459 # abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit.
 460 #
 461 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 462 Zone    Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 -      LMT     1882
 463                         -0:43:08 -      MMT     1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
 464                         -0:44:30 -      MMT     1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT
 465                          0:00   -       GMT
 466 
 467 ###############################################################################
 468 
 469 # Libya
 470 
 471 # From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
 472 # Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
 473 # http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
 474 # Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc
 475 #
 476 # Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
 477 # http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
 478 #
 479 # From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
 480 # Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
 481 # The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
 482 # (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
 483 # lastFri instead of lastSun).
 484 


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