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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/africa b/share/zoneinfo/africa index 2585a79..c9d3cd0 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.26 +# @(#)africa 7.33 +# $FreeBSD$ # 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 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1997-10-05): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). +# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law <Gwil_Law@bridge-point.com> writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -24,8 +25,7 @@ # 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). +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). # # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S # IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00. # Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29. -Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr Fri>=22 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -295,8 +295,6 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar # 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, as corrected by Whitman: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time @@ -321,18 +319,16 @@ Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Libya 1990 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1996 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1996 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 - -Rule Libya 1997 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1997 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 2:00 - EET 1982 - 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1991 - 2:00 - EET 1996 Mar 30 3:00 - 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1997 Oct 4 0:00 + 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4 +# The following entries are all from Shanks; +# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors. + 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30 + 1:00 - CET 1997 Apr 4 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1997 Oct 4 2:00 - EET # Madagascar @@ -410,8 +406,8 @@ Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - CAT # Namibia -# Shanks says DST transitions are at 0:00; go with IATA. # The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks. +# Shanks reports no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - @@ -443,10 +439,9 @@ Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis # # Scattered Islands (Iles Eparses) administered from Reunion are as follows. # The following information about them is taken from -# <a href="http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm"> -# Iles Eparses -# </a> -# (1997-07-22, in French). We have no info about their time zone histories. +# Iles Eparses (www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm, 1997-07-22, in French; +# no longer available as of 1999-08-17). +# We have no info about their time zone histories. # # Bassas da India - uninhabited # Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families @@ -460,9 +455,6 @@ Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun 2:00 - CAT # St Helena -# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05): -# Shanks says St Helena was 1W26 (-0:05:44) from 1890 to 1951, -# but this is most likely a typo for 5W42, the longitude of Jamestown. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time @@ -470,7 +462,8 @@ Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown # The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar: # Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA # Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995 and the CIA -# Gough (scientific station since 1955): on GMT, says the CIA +# Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously): +# on GMT, says the CIA # Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT # Sao Tome and Principe @@ -518,18 +511,19 @@ Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar 2:00 SA SAST -# Shanks erroneously claims that most of South Africa switched to 1:00 -# on 1994-04-03 at 00:00. -# # Marion and Prince Edward Is -# weather station since 1947 +# scientific station since 1947 # no information # Sudan -# From Michael Ross <mross@antigone.com> (1995-11-15): -# 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 +# +# From <a href="http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html"> +# Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13) +# </a>, also reported by Michael De Beukelaer-Dossche via Steffen Thorsen: +# Clocks will be moved ahead for 60 minutes all over the Sudan as of noon +# Saturday.... This was announced Thursday by Caretaker State Minister for +# Manpower Abdul-Rahman Nur-Eddin. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 - @@ -537,7 +531,8 @@ Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931 - 2:00 Sudan CA%sT + 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 + 3:00 - EAT # Swaziland # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
