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 164 # See Africa/Nairobi.
 165 
 166 # Democratic Republic of the Congo
 167 # See Africa/Lagos for the western part and Africa/Maputo for the eastern.
 168 
 169 # Republic of the Congo
 170 # See Africa/Lagos.
 171 
 172 # Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
 173 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 174 Zone    Africa/Abidjan  -0:16:08 -      LMT     1912
 175                          0:00   -       GMT
 176 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako       # Mali
 177 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul       # Gambia
 178 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry      # Guinea
 179 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar        # Senegal
 180 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown     # Sierra Leone
 181 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome         # Togo
 182 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott   # Mauritania
 183 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou  # Burkina Faso
 184 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Sao_Tome     # São Tomé and Príncipe
 185 Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena  # St Helena
 186 
 187 # Djibouti
 188 # See Africa/Nairobi.
 189 
 190 ###############################################################################
 191 
 192 # Egypt
 193 
 194 # Milne says Cairo used 2:05:08.9, the local mean time of the Abbasizeh
 195 # observatory; round to nearest.  Milne also says that the official time for
 196 # Egypt was mean noon at the Great Pyramid, 2:04:30.5, but apparently this
 197 # did not apply to Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said.
 198 
 199 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 200 Rule    Egypt   1940    only    -       Jul     15      0:00    1:00    S
 201 Rule    Egypt   1940    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    0       -
 202 Rule    Egypt   1941    only    -       Apr     15      0:00    1:00    S
 203 Rule    Egypt   1941    only    -       Sep     16      0:00    0       -
 204 Rule    Egypt   1942    1944    -       Apr      1      0:00    1:00    S


 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):


1043 #
1044 # Bassas da India - uninhabited
1045 # Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families
1046 # Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958
1047 # Juan de Nova - uninhabited
1048 # Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
1049 
1050 # Rwanda
1051 # See Africa/Maputo.
1052 
1053 # St Helena
1054 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1055 # The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
1056 #       Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
1057 #       Ascension: on GMT, say the USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA
1058 #       Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously):
1059 #               on GMT, says the CIA
1060 #       Inaccessible, Nightingale: uninhabited
1061 
1062 # São Tomé and Príncipe













1063 # Senegal
1064 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1065 
1066 # Seychelles
1067 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1068 Zone    Indian/Mahe     3:41:48 -       LMT     1906 Jun # Victoria
1069                         4:00    -       +04
1070 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
1071 # Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the
1072 # Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory
1073 # in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976.  We don't know
1074 # whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now.
1075 # Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
1076 
1077 # Sierra Leone
1078 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1079 
1080 # Somalia
1081 # See Africa/Nairobi.
1082 




 164 # See Africa/Nairobi.
 165 
 166 # Democratic Republic of the Congo
 167 # See Africa/Lagos for the western part and Africa/Maputo for the eastern.
 168 
 169 # Republic of the Congo
 170 # See Africa/Lagos.
 171 
 172 # Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
 173 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 174 Zone    Africa/Abidjan  -0:16:08 -      LMT     1912
 175                          0:00   -       GMT
 176 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako       # Mali
 177 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul       # Gambia
 178 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry      # Guinea
 179 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar        # Senegal
 180 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown     # Sierra Leone
 181 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome         # Togo
 182 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott   # Mauritania
 183 Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou  # Burkina Faso

 184 Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena  # St Helena
 185 
 186 # Djibouti
 187 # See Africa/Nairobi.
 188 
 189 ###############################################################################
 190 
 191 # Egypt
 192 
 193 # Milne says Cairo used 2:05:08.9, the local mean time of the Abbasizeh
 194 # observatory; round to nearest.  Milne also says that the official time for
 195 # Egypt was mean noon at the Great Pyramid, 2:04:30.5, but apparently this
 196 # did not apply to Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said.
 197 
 198 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 199 Rule    Egypt   1940    only    -       Jul     15      0:00    1:00    S
 200 Rule    Egypt   1940    only    -       Oct      1      0:00    0       -
 201 Rule    Egypt   1941    only    -       Apr     15      0:00    1:00    S
 202 Rule    Egypt   1941    only    -       Sep     16      0:00    0       -
 203 Rule    Egypt   1942    1944    -       Apr      1      0:00    1:00    S


 430                         3:00    -       EAT
 431 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa   # Ethiopia
 432 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara        # Eritrea
 433 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
 434 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
 435 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala       # Uganda
 436 Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu     # Somalia
 437 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo  # Madagascar
 438 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
 439 Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
 440 
 441 # Lesotho
 442 # See Africa/Johannesburg.
 443 
 444 # Liberia
 445 #
 446 # From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02):
 447 #
 448 # The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30.
 449 #
 450 # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UT offset
 451 # that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.  The 1972 change was on
 452 # 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of:
 453 # Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of
 454 # President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972.
 455 # Monrovia: Executive Mansion.
 456 #
 457 # Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric
 458 # abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit.
 459 #
 460 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 461 Zone    Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 -      LMT     1882
 462                         -0:43:08 -      MMT     1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
 463                         -0:44:30 -      MMT     1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT
 464                          0:00   -       GMT
 465 
 466 ###############################################################################
 467 
 468 # Libya
 469 
 470 # From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):


1042 #
1043 # Bassas da India - uninhabited
1044 # Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families
1045 # Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958
1046 # Juan de Nova - uninhabited
1047 # Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
1048 
1049 # Rwanda
1050 # See Africa/Maputo.
1051 
1052 # St Helena
1053 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1054 # The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
1055 #       Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
1056 #       Ascension: on GMT, say the USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA
1057 #       Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously):
1058 #               on GMT, says the CIA
1059 #       Inaccessible, Nightingale: uninhabited
1060 
1061 # São Tomé and Príncipe
1062 
1063 # From Steffen Thorsen (2018-01-08):
1064 # Multiple sources tell that São Tomé changed from UTC to UTC+1 as
1065 # they entered the year 2018.
1066 # From Michael Deckers (2018-01-08):
1067 # the switch is from 01:00 to 02:00 ... [Decree No. 25/2017]
1068 # http://www.mnec.gov.st/index.php/publicacoes/documentos/file/90-decreto-lei-n-25-2017
1069 
1070 Zone    Africa/Sao_Tome  0:26:56 -      LMT     1884
1071                         -0:36:45 -      LMT     1912 # Lisbon Mean Time
1072                          0:00   -       GMT     2018 Jan  1 01:00
1073                          1:00   -       WAT
1074 
1075 # Senegal
1076 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1077 
1078 # Seychelles
1079 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1080 Zone    Indian/Mahe     3:41:48 -       LMT     1906 Jun # Victoria
1081                         4:00    -       +04
1082 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
1083 # Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the
1084 # Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory
1085 # in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976.  We don't know
1086 # whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now.
1087 # Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
1088 
1089 # Sierra Leone
1090 # See Africa/Abidjan.
1091 
1092 # Somalia
1093 # See Africa/Nairobi.
1094 


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