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| author | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-10-20 22:32:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-10-20 22:32:10 +0000 |
| commit | 89abb9f8c24918db80bc602902fdf847b769bfa4 (patch) | |
| tree | c28efbc14d21b0d6ec898e3519ecfc73593cc10c /contrib/tzdata/africa | |
| parent | 27eff71458dddd09bb45779bc3953dd95507fd13 (diff) | |
| parent | 2f05a751b70c7084f5b0434c5b5b1370d56cf010 (diff) | |
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Import tzdata 2018f
Changes: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2018f/NEWS
MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/africa b/contrib/tzdata/africa index 84e1ce2d5d76..555052bedd69 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/africa +++ b/contrib/tzdata/africa @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +# tzdb data for Africa and environs + # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -6,7 +8,7 @@ # 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), @@ -51,13 +53,15 @@ # 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 @@ -362,6 +366,13 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct # 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. |