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authorGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-03-02 20:48:55 +0000
committerGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-03-02 20:48:55 +0000
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Latest rlelease of timezone data files.vendor/tzdata/tzdata96c
Obtained from: Arthud David Olson <ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov>
Notes
Notes: svn path=/vendor/tzdata/dist/; revision=14338 svn path=/vendor/tzdata/tzdata96c/; revision=14340; tag=vendor/tzdata/tzdata96c
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+++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)africa 7.6
+# @(#)africa 7.12
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
# I found in the UCLA library.
#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
+# Oxford University Press (1980).
+#
# I added so many Zone names that the old, mostly flat name space was unwieldy.
# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where
# AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and
@@ -29,6 +33,10 @@
# E.g. prefer `Brunei' to `Bandar_Seri_Begawan'.
# Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country.
# One such location is enough.
+# If all the clocks in a country's region have agreed since 1970,
+# don't bother to include more than one location
+# even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970.
+# Otherwise these tables would become annoyingly large.
# If a name is ambiguous, use a less ambiguous alternative;
# e.g. many cities are named San Jose and Georgetown, so
# prefer `Costa_Rica' to `San_Jose' and `Guyana' to `Georgetown'.
@@ -95,10 +103,10 @@ Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 " DST"
Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 -
Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 " DST"
Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
-# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05.
+# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
- 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
+ 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
0:00 Algeria WET%s 1940 Feb 25 2:00
1:00 Algeria MET%s 1946 Oct 7
0:00 - WET 1956 Jan 29
@@ -114,6 +122,9 @@ Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
0:52 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time
1:00 - CAT
+# Bassas da India
+# uninhabited
+
# Benin
# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -244,6 +255,9 @@ Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
2:35 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT
3:00 - EAT
+# Europa Island
+# uninhabited
+
# Gabon
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912
@@ -269,6 +283,9 @@ Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 WAT
Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
0:00 Ghana %s
+# Glorioso Is
+# uninhabited
+
# Guinea
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912
@@ -282,6 +299,9 @@ Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26
1:00 - CAT 1975
0:00 - WAT
+# Juan de Nova
+# uninhabited
+
# Kenya
# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
# Shanks says the transition to 2:45 was in 1940, but it must have been 1948.
@@ -303,9 +323,10 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
# from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes.
-# Time magazine reported that it was in honor of their leader's birthday.
-# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, and Whitman reports -0:44:30;
-# go with Whitman.
+# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
+# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks.
+# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman
+# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
#
# From Shanks (1991), as corrected by Whitman:
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -342,16 +363,15 @@ Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 " DST"
Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
Rule Libya 1990 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 " DST"
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
-# Here's a guess for years starting with 1991.
-Rule Libya 1991 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 " DST"
-Rule Libya 1991 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
1:00 Libya MET%s 1959
2:00 - EET 1982
- 1:00 Libya MET%s
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19):
+# usno1995 (from OAG) says Libya uses 2:00 all year, as they did before 1982.
+# We don't know when they switched back. We'll guess 1991.
+ 1:00 Libya MET%s 1991
+ 2:00 - EET
# Madagascar
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -391,7 +411,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# Mayotte
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:01:08 - LMT 1911 Jul # Dzaoudzi
+Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
3:00 - EAT
# Morocco
@@ -418,7 +438,7 @@ Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
1:00 - MET 1986
0:00 - WET
# The following are controlled by Spain, and are like Europe/Madrid:
-# Alboran, Alhucemas Is, Ceuta, Chafarinas Is, Mellila.
+# Alboran, Alhucemas Is, Ceuta, Chafarinas Is, Melilla.
# Mozambique
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -447,7 +467,7 @@ Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
# Reunion
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # St Denis
+Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
4:00 - SMT
# Rwanda
@@ -460,10 +480,10 @@ Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun
Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown
-0:06 - ?MT 1951 # a typo in Shanks?
0:00 - GMT
-# Whitman says Tristan da Cunha is on GMT, like Atlantic/St_Helena.
-#
-# Ascension, Gough, Inaccessible, Nightingale
-# no information; probably like Atlantic/St_Helena
+# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
+# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, says Whitman
+# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995
+# Gough, Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT
# Sao Tome and Principe
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -519,12 +539,16 @@ Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
# no information
# Sudan
+# From Michael Ross <mross@antigone.com> (November 15, 1995):
+# Sudan no longer observes any form of daylight time change.
+# I verified this today by telephone with the Sudan Mission to the
+# United Nations: 212-573-6033
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Sudan 1931 only - Feb 8 0:00 0 -
Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 " DST"
-Rule Sudan 1970 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
+Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 " DST"
-Rule Sudan 1972 max - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 " DST"
+Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 " DST"
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
2:00 Sudan EET%s
@@ -546,6 +570,9 @@ Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
0:00 - WAT
+# Tromelin
+# uninhabited
+
# Tunisia
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Tunisia 1911 only - Mar 9 0:00 0 -
@@ -571,10 +598,11 @@ Rule Tunisia 1988 max - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 -
Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 " DST"
Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 " DST"
Rule Tunisia 1991 max - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 " DST"
-# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05.
+# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21.
+# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12
- 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 9 # Paris Mean Time
+ 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
1:00 Tunisia MET%s
# Uganda