diff -r 4ebc2e2fb97c -r 71c04702a3d5 make/data/tzdata/africa --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/make/data/tzdata/africa Tue Sep 12 19:03:39 2017 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,1215 @@ +# +# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. +# +# This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as +# published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this +# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided +# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. +# +# This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT +# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or +# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License +# version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that +# accompanied this code). +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version +# 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, +# Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. +# +# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA +# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any +# questions. +# +# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of +# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. + +# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, +# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to +# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see +# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. + +# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-20): +# +# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). +# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. +# +# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source +# for time zone data was the International Air Transport +# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), +# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries +# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, +# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# +# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, +# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which +# I found in the UCLA library. +# +# For data circa 1899, a common source is: +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 +# +# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). +# +# European-style abbreviations are commonly used along the Mediterranean. +# For sub-Saharan Africa abbreviations were less standardized. +# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT +# for UT +00 through +03, respectively, +# but in 1997 Mark R V Murray reported that +# 'SAST' is the official abbreviation for +02 in the country of South Africa, +# 'CAT' is commonly used for +02 in countries north of South Africa, and +# 'WAT' is probably the best name for +01, as the common phrase for +# the area that includes Nigeria is "West Africa". +# +# To summarize, the following abbreviations seemed to have some currency: +# +00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time +# +02 CAT Central Africa Time +# +02 SAST South Africa Standard Time +# and Murray suggested the following abbreviation: +# +01 WAT West Africa Time +# Murray's suggestion seems to have caught on in news reports and the like. +# 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 +# +03 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used) +# +03 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used) +# +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. + +# Algeria +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - +Rule Algeria 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1921 only - Jun 21 23:00s 0 - +Rule Algeria 1939 only - Sep 11 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1939 only - Nov 19 1:00 0 - +Rule Algeria 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1944 only - Oct 8 2:00 0 - +Rule Algeria 1945 only - Sep 16 1:00 0 - +Rule Algeria 1971 only - Apr 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1971 only - Sep 26 23:00s 0 - +Rule Algeria 1977 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1977 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 - +Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 - +Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 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 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time + 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1940 Feb 25 2:00 + 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1946 Oct 7 + 0:00 - WET 1956 Jan 29 + 1:00 - CET 1963 Apr 14 + 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1977 Oct 21 + 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26 + 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May + 1:00 - CET + +# Angola +# Benin +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Botswana +# See Africa/Maputo. + +# Burkina Faso +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Burundi +# See Africa/Maputo. + +# Cameroon +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Cape Verde / Cabo Verde +# +# Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to +02. +# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree +# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf +# merely made it official? +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia + -2:00 - -02 1942 Sep + -2:00 1:00 -01 1945 Oct 15 + -2:00 - -02 1975 Nov 25 2:00 + -1:00 - -01 + +# Central African Republic +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Chad +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena + 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14 + 1:00 1:00 WAST 1980 Mar 8 + 1:00 - WAT + +# Comoros +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Democratic Republic of the Congo +# See Africa/Lagos for the western part and Africa/Maputo for the eastern. + +# Republic of the Congo +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912 + 0:00 - GMT +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako # Mali +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul # Gambia +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry # Guinea +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar # Senegal +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown # Sierra Leone +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome # Togo +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott # Mauritania +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou # Burkina Faso +Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Sao_Tome # São Tomé and Príncipe +Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena # St Helena + +# Djibouti +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +############################################################################### + +# Egypt + +# Milne says Cairo used 2:05:08.9, the local mean time of the Abbasizeh +# observatory; round to nearest. Milne also says that the official time for +# Egypt was mean noon at the Great Pyramid, 2:04:30.5, but apparently this +# did not apply to Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1966 1994 - Oct 1 3:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S +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. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-04-20): +# "...Egypt's interim cabinet decided on Wednesday to cancel daylight +# saving time after a poll posted on its website showed the majority of +# Egyptians would approve the cancellation." +# +# Egypt to cancel daylight saving time +# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168 +# or +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt04.html +Rule Egypt 1995 2010 - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19): +# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports: +# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday +# after observing the daylight saving time since May. +# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf +Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 24:00 0 - +# From Dirk Losch (2007-08-14): +# I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight +# saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07. +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2007-08-15): [The following agree:] +# http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm +# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53 +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-04): The official information...: +# http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm +Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - +# From Abdelrahman Hassan (2007-09-06): +# Due to the Hijri (lunar Islamic calendar) year being 11 days shorter +# than the year of the Gregorian calendar, Ramadan shifts earlier each +# year. This year it will be observed September 13 (September is quite +# hot in Egypt), and the idea is to make fasting easier for workers by +# shifting business hours one hour out of daytime heat. Consequently, +# unless discontinued, next DST may end Thursday 28 August 2008. +# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): +# For lack of better info, assume the new rule is last Thursday in August. + +# From Petr Machata (2009-04-06): +# The following appeared in Red Hat bugzilla[1] (edited): +# +# > $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009 +# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu = +# Apr 23 +# > 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 +# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri = +# Apr 24 +# > 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 +# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu = +# Aug 27 +# > 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 +# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu = +# Aug 27 +# > 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 +# +# > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59= +# :59) +# > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/ +# +# timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that. +# +# [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263 +# [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53 +# [3] http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/ + +# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20): +# In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth +# Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday +# in September. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-11): +# We have been able to confirm the August change with the Egyptian Cabinet +# Information and Decision Support Center: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html +# +# The Middle East News Agency +# http://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx +# also reports "Egypt starts winter time on August 21" +# today in article numbered "71, 11/08/2009 12:25 GMT." +# Only the title above is available without a subscription to their service, +# and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine +# (at least today). + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20): +# According to News from Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has +# decided that Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during +# Ramadan. +# +# Arabic translation: +# "Clocks to go back during Ramadan - and then forward again" +# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html + +# From Ahmad El-Dardiry (2014-05-07): +# Egypt is to change back to Daylight system on May 15 +# http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100735/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-government-to-reapply-daylight-saving-time-.aspx + +# From Gunther Vermier (2014-05-13): +# our Egypt office confirms that the change will be at 15 May "midnight" (24:00) + +# From Imed Chihi (2014-06-04): +# We have finally "located" a precise official reference about the DST changes +# in Egypt. The Ministers Cabinet decision is explained at +# http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/Media/CabinetMeetingsDetails.aspx?id=347 ... +# [T]his (Arabic) site is not accessible outside Egypt, but the page ... +# translates into: "With regard to daylight saving time, it is scheduled to +# take effect at exactly twelve o'clock this evening, Thursday, 15 MAY 2014, +# to be suspended by twelve o'clock on the evening of Thursday, 26 JUN 2014, +# and re-established again at the end of the month of Ramadan, at twelve +# o'clock on the evening of Thursday, 31 JUL 2014." This statement has been +# reproduced by other (more accessible) sites[, e.g.,]... +# http://elgornal.net/news/news.aspx?id=4699258 + +# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-04): +# Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath of AP report that the Egyptian government says +# the change is because of blackouts in Cairo, even though Ahram Online (cited +# above) says DST had no affect on electricity consumption. There is +# no information about when DST will end this fall. See: +# http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833 + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08): +# Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015. +# This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last +# Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but +# dates not yet announced.... +# http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ... +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html + +# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20): +# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at +# least for 2015. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20): +# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx +# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving +# time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the +# practice altogether in future years." +# +# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-24): +# Yesterday the office of Egyptian President El-Sisi announced his +# decision to abandon DST permanently. See Ahram Online 2015-04-24. +# http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/128509/Egypt/Politics-/Sisi-cancels-daylight-saving-time-in-Egypt.aspx + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-04-29): +# Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October.... +# http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-time-returning-to-Egypt-on--July.aspx +# From Mina Samuel (2016-07-04): +# Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, + +Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct + 2:00 Egypt EE%sT + +# Equatorial Guinea +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Eritrea +# Ethiopia +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Gabon +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Gambia +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Ghana +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to "the present"; +# Shanks & Pottenger say 1936 to 1942; +# and September 1 to January 1 is given by: +# Scott Keltie J, Epstein M (eds), The Statesman's Year-Book, +# 57th ed. Macmillan, London (1920), OCLC 609408015, pp xxviii. +# For lack of better info, assume DST was observed from 1920 to 1942. +Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST +Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 + 0:00 Ghana GMT/+0020 + +# Guinea +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Guinea-Bissau +# +# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, +# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree +# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf +# with the date that it took effect, namely 1912-01-01. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 + -1:00 - -01 1975 + 0:00 - GMT + +# Kenya +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul + 3:00 - EAT 1930 + 2:30 - +0230 1940 + 2:45 - +0245 1960 + 3:00 - EAT +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda +Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia +Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar +Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro +Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte + +# Lesotho +# See Africa/Johannesburg. + +# Liberia +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02): +# +# The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30. +# +# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UTC offset +# that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. The 1972 change was on +# 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of: +# Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of +# President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. +# Monrovia: Executive Mansion. +# +# Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric +# abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 + -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time + -0:44:30 - MMT 1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT + 0:00 - GMT + +############################################################################### + +# Libya + +# From Even Scharning (2012-11-10): +# Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10. +# http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/ +# Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc +# +# Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in +# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html +# +# From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11): +# Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1. +# The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe +# (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on +# lastFri instead of lastSun). + +# From Even Scharning (2013-10-25): +# The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was +# cancelled yesterday.... +# http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/ +# +# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25): +# For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UT +02. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S +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 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1997 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1997 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 2013 only - Mar lastFri 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Libya 2013 only - Oct lastFri 2:00 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 1990 May 4 +# The 1996 and 1997 entries are from Shanks & Pottenger; +# the IATA SSIM data entries contain some obvious errors. + 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30 + 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1997 Oct 4 + 2:00 - EET 2012 Nov 10 2:00 + 1:00 Libya CE%sT 2013 Oct 25 2:00 + 2:00 - EET + +# Madagascar +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Malawi +# See Africa/Maputo. + +# Mali +# Mauritania +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Mauritius + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25): +# Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial +# basis.... +# It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to +# 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): +# http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD + +# From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): +# The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A +# final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving +# would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. + +# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): +# Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-07-10): +# According to +# http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216 +# (in French), Mauritius will start and end their DST a few days earlier +# than previously announced (2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31). The new start +# date is 2008-10-26 at 02:00 and the new end date is 2009-03-27 (no time +# given, but it is probably at either 2 or 3 wall clock time). +# +# A little strange though, since the article says that they moved the date +# to align itself with Europe and USA which also change time on that date, +# but that means they have not paid attention to what happened in +# USA/Canada last year (DST ends first Sunday in November). I also wonder +# why that they end on a Friday, instead of aligning with Europe which +# changes two days later. + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11): +# Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving +# time: Energy conservation?"- No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally +# published on Monday, June 30, 2008... +# +# I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction +# de l'heure d'été" stating that DST in Mauritius starting on October 26 +# and ending on March 27, 2009 is the most recent one.... +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html + +# From Riad M. Hossen Ally (2008-08-03): +# The Government of Mauritius weblink +# http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/pmosite/menuitem.4ca0efdee47462e7440a600248a521ca/?content_id=4728ca68b2a5b110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD +# Cabinet Decision of July 18th, 2008 states as follows: +# +# 4. ...Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly +# of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in +# Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of +# the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United +# States of America. It will start at two o'clock in the morning on the +# last Sunday of October and will end at two o'clock in the morning on +# the last Sunday of March the following year. The summer time for the +# year 2008-2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008 +# and end on 29 March 2009. + +# From Ed Maste (2008-10-07): +# THE TIME BILL (No. XXVII of 2008) Explanatory Memorandum states the +# beginning / ending of summer time is 2 o'clock standard time in the +# morning of the last Sunday of October / last Sunday of March. +# http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/bill2708.pdf + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-05): +# According to several sources, Mauritius will not continue to observe +# DST the coming summer... +# +# Some sources, in French: +# http://www.defimedia.info/news/946/Rashid-Beebeejaun-:-%C2%AB-L%E2%80%99heure-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ne-sera-pas-appliqu%C3%A9e-cette-ann%C3%A9e-%C2%BB +# http://lexpress.mu/Story/3398~Beebeejaun---Les-objectifs-d-%C3%A9conomie-d-%C3%A9nergie-de-l-heure-d-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ont-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-atteints- +# +# Our wrap-up: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat.html + +# From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11): +# The "mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat" wrapup includes this: +# "The trial ended on March 29, 2009, when the clocks moved back by one hour +# at 2am (or 02:00) local time..." + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - +Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis + 4:00 Mauritius +04/+05 +# Agalega Is, Rodriguez +# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius + +# Mayotte +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Morocco +# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta). + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): +# Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between +# 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008. +# +# "... Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will +# be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to +# Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Khalid Naciri...." +# +# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_morocco01.html +# http://en.afrik.com/news11892.html + +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): +# The Morocco time change can be confirmed on Morocco web site Maghreb Arabe +# Presse: +# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box3/morocco_shifts_to_da/view +# +# Morocco shifts to daylight time on June 1st through September 27, Govt. +# spokesman. + +# From Patrice Scattolin (2008-05-09): +# According to this article: +# http://www.avmaroc.com/actualite/heure-dete-comment-a127896.html +# (and republished here: ) +# the changes occur at midnight: +# +# Saturday night May 31st at midnight (which in French is to be +# interpreted as the night between Saturday and Sunday) +# Sunday night the 28th at midnight +# +# Seeing that the 28th is Monday, I am guessing that she intends to say +# the midnight of the 28th which is the midnight between Sunday and +# Monday, which jives with other sources that say that it's inclusive +# June 1st to Sept 27th. +# +# The decision was taken by decree *2-08-224 *but I can't find the decree +# published on the web. +# +# It's also confirmed here: +# http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm +# on a government portal as being between June 1st and Sept 27th (not yet +# posted in English). +# +# The following Google query will generate many relevant hits: +# http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conseil+de+gouvernement+maroc+heure+avance&btnG=Search + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-27): +# Morocco will change the clocks back on the midnight between August 31 +# and September 1. They originally planned to observe DST to near the end +# of September: +# +# One article about it (in French): +# http://www.menara.ma/fr/Actualites/Maroc/Societe/ci.retour_a_l_heure_gmt_a_partir_du_dimanche_31_aout_a_minuit_officiel_.default +# +# We have some further details posted here: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-early-2008.html + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-17): +# Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 00:00 to 2009-08-21 00:00 according +# to many sources, such as +# http://news.marweb.com/morocco/entertainment/morocco-daylight-saving.html +# http://www.medi1sat.ma/fr/depeche.aspx?idp=2312 +# (French) +# +# Our summary: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2009.html + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): +# Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre, +# Ministère de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics +# +# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967) +# concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of +# Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be +# advanced 60 minutes from Sunday 31 May 2009 at midnight. +# +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/francais/Actualites_fr/PDF_Actualites_Fr/HeureEte_FR.pdf +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco03.html + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-04-13): +# Several news media in Morocco report that the Ministry of Modernization +# of Public Sectors has announced that Morocco will have DST from +# 2010-05-02 to 2010-08-08. +# +# Example: +# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualites/4099-le-maroc-passera-a-l-heure-d-ete-gmt1-le-2-mai.html +# (French) +# Our page: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2010.html + +# From Dan Abitol (2011-03-30): +# ...Rules for Africa/Casablanca are the following (24h format) +# The 3rd April 2011 at 00:00:00, [it] will be 3rd April 01:00:00 +# The 31st July 2011 at 00:59:59, [it] will be 31st July 00:00:00 +# ...Official links of change in morocco +# The change was broadcast on the FM Radio +# I ve called ANRT (telecom regulations in Morocco) at +# +212.537.71.84.00 +# http://www.anrt.net.ma/fr/ +# They said that +# http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view +# is the official publication to look at. +# They said that the decision was already taken. +# +# More articles in the press +# http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/5058/secret-l-heure-d-ete-maroc-leve.html +# http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Express/Article.asp?id=148923 +# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualite/Le-Maroc-passe-sur-GMT%2B1-a-partir-de-dim + +# From Petr Machata (2011-03-30): +# They have it written in English here: +# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/home/morocco_to_spring_fo/view +# +# It says there that "Morocco will resume its standard time on July 31, +# 2011 at midnight." Now they don't say whether they mean midnight of +# wall clock time (i.e. 11pm UTC), but that's what I would assume. It has +# also been like that in the past. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2012-03-09): +# According to Infomédiaire web site from Morocco (infomediaire.ma), +# on March 9, 2012, (in French) Heure légale: +# Le Maroc adopte officiellement l'heure d'été +# http://www.infomediaire.ma/news/maroc/heure-l%C3%A9gale-le-maroc-adopte-officiellement-lheure-d%C3%A9t%C3%A9 +# Governing Council adopted draft decree, that Morocco DST starts on +# the last Sunday of March (March 25, 2012) and ends on +# last Sunday of September (September 30, 2012) +# except the month of Ramadan. +# or (brief) +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco06.html + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-10): +# The infomediaire.ma source indicates that the system is to be in +# effect every year. It gives 03H00 as the "fall back" time of day; +# it lacks a "spring forward" time of day; assume 2:00 XXX. +# Wait on specifying the Ramadan exception for details about +# start date, start time of day, end date, and end time of day XXX. + +# From Christophe Tropamer (2012-03-16): +# Seen Morocco change again: +# http://www.le2uminutes.com/actualite.php +# "...à partir du dernier dimanche d'avril et non fins mars, +# comme annoncé précédemment." + +# From Milamber Space Network (2012-07-17): +# The official return to GMT is announced by the Moroccan government: +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288 [in French] +# +# Google translation, lightly edited: +# Back to the standard time of the Kingdom (GMT) +# Pursuant to Decree No. 2-12-126 issued on 26 Jumada (I) 1433 (April 18, +# 2012) and in accordance with the order of Mr. President of the +# Government No. 3-47-12 issued on 24 Sha'ban (11 July 2012), the Ministry +# of Public Service and Administration Modernization announces the return +# of the legal time of the Kingdom (GMT) from Friday, July 20, 2012 until +# Monday, August 20, 2012. So the time will be delayed by 60 minutes from +# 3:00 am Friday, July 20, 2012 and will again be advanced by 60 minutes +# August 20, 2012 from 2:00 am. + +# From Paul Eggert (2013-03-06): +# Morocco's daylight-saving transitions due to Ramadan seem to be +# announced a bit in advance. On 2012-07-11 the Moroccan government +# announced that year's Ramadan daylight-saving transitions would be +# 2012-07-20 and 2012-08-20; see +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288 + +# From Andrew Paprocki (2013-07-02): +# Morocco announced that the year's Ramadan daylight-savings +# transitions would be 2013-07-07 and 2013-08-10; see: +# http://www.maroc.ma/en/news/morocco-suspends-daylight-saving-time-july-7-aug10 + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-28): +# Morocco extends DST by one month, on very short notice, just 1 day +# before it was going to end. There is a new decree (2.13.781) for +# this, where DST from now on goes from last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# to last Sunday of October at 03:00, similar to EU rules. Official +# source (French): +# http://www.maroc.gov.ma/fr/actualites/lhoraire-dete-gmt1-maintenu-jusquau-27-octobre-2013 +# Another source (specifying the time for start and end in the decree): +# http://www.lemag.ma/Heure-d-ete-au-Maroc-jusqu-au-27-octobre_a75620.html + +# From Sebastien Willemijns (2014-03-18): +# http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2014/3/18/maroc-heure-dete-avancez-tous-horloges-247891.asp + +# From Milamber Space Network (2014-06-05): +# The Moroccan government has recently announced that the country will return +# to standard time at 03:00 on Saturday, June 28, 2014 local time.... DST +# will resume again at 02:00 on Saturday, August 2, 2014.... +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=586 + +# From Milamber (2015-06-08): +# (Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes +# Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding +# that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19, +# 2015 at 2:00. The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I +# 1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of +# 16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015). +# Source (french): +# http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/ +# +# From Milamber (2015-06-09): +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863 +# +# From Michael Deckers (2015-06-09): +# [The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go +# from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch.... +# I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in +# agrees +# with the patch. + +# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08): +# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules, +# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last +# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after +# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were +# determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the +# results integrated by hand into the table below. +# (let ((islamic-year 1437)) +# (require 'cal-islam) +# (while (< islamic-year 1460) +# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year))) +# (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year))) +# (sunday 0)) +# (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7))) +# (while (/= sunday (mod b 7)) +# (setq b (1+ b))) +# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a)) +# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b)) +# (insert +# (format +# (concat "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 3:00\t0\t-\n" +# "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 2:00\t1:00\tS\n") +# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a)) +# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b))))) +# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year)))) + +# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S + +Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2009 only - Aug 21 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2012 2013 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2012 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 7 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2013 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2014 2021 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 28 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 14 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 5 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 21 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 2 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 13 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 17 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 5 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 9 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2020 only - Apr 19 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2021 only - Apr 11 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 8 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2026 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 0 - + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 + 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 + 1:00 - CET 1986 + 0:00 Morocco WE%sT + +# Western Sahara +# +# From Gwillim Law (2013-10-22): +# A correspondent who is usually well informed about time zone matters +# ... says that Western Sahara observes daylight saving time, just as +# Morocco does. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-23): +# Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT, +# since most of it was then controlled by Morocco. + +Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún + -1:00 - -01 1976 Apr 14 + 0:00 Morocco WE%sT + +# Mozambique +# +# Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT. +# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree +# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf +# merely made it official? +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar + 2:00 - CAT +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Blantyre # Malawi +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Bujumbura # Burundi +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Gaborone # Botswana +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Harare # Zimbabwe +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Kigali # Rwanda +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo +Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lusaka # Zambia + +# Namibia +# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger. +# Shanks & Pottenger report no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. + +# From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30): +# http://allafrica.com/stories/200703300178.html +# While the entire country changes its time, Katima Mulilo and other +# settlements in Caprivi unofficially will not because the sun there +# rises and sets earlier compared to other regions. Chief of +# Forecasting Riaan van Zyl explained that the far eastern parts of +# the country are close to 40 minutes earlier in sunrise than the rest +# of the country. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22): +# Although the Zambezi Region (formerly known as Caprivi) informally +# observes Botswana time, we have no details about historical practice. +# In the meantime people there can use Africa/Gaborone. +# See: Immanuel S. The Namibian. 2017-02-23. +# http://www.namibian.com.na/51480/read/Time-change-divides-lawmakers + +# 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 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 + 1:30 - +0130 1903 Mar + 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00 + 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00 + 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence + 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3 + 1:00 Namibia WA%sT + +# Niger +# See Africa/Lagos. + +# Nigeria +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep + 1:00 - WAT +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala # Cameroon +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa # Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west) +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville # Gabon +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey # Niger +Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo # Benin + +# Réunion +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis + 4:00 - +04 +# +# Crozet Islands also observes Réunion time; see the 'antarctica' file. +# +# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows. +# The following information about them is taken from +# Îles Éparses (, 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 +# Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958 +# Juan de Nova - uninhabited +# Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958 + +# Rwanda +# See Africa/Maputo. + +# St Helena +# See Africa/Abidjan. +# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar: +# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA +# Ascension: on GMT, say the USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA +# Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously): +# on GMT, says the CIA +# Inaccessible, Nightingale: uninhabited + +# São Tomé and Príncipe +# Senegal +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Seychelles +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria + 4:00 - +04 +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): +# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the +# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory +# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know +# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. +# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. + +# Sierra Leone +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Somalia +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# South Africa +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 - +Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 + 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar + 2:00 SA SAST +Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru # Lesotho +Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane # Swaziland +# +# Marion and Prince Edward Is +# scientific station since 1947 +# no information + +# Sudan +# +# From +# Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13), +# also reported by Michaël 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 - +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 2000 Jan 15 12:00 + 3:00 - EAT + +# South Sudan +Link Africa/Khartoum Africa/Juba + +# Swaziland +# See Africa/Johannesburg. + +# Tanzania +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Togo +# See Africa/Abidjan. + +# Tunisia + +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): +# My correspondent, Risto Nykänen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, +# this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News +# , in a story attributed to AP +# and dated 2005-04-26, "Tunisia has decided to advance its official time by +# one hour, starting on Sunday, May 1. Henceforth, Tunisian time will be +# UTC+2 instead of UTC+1. The change will take place at 23:00 UTC next +# Saturday." (My translation) +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02): +# La Presse, the first national daily newspaper ... +# http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html +# ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, +# 1h standard time. +# +# From Atef Loukil (2006-03-28): +# The daylight saving time will be the same each year: +# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... +# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Itemid=50 + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-16): +# According to several news sources, Tunisia will not observe DST this year. +# (Arabic) +# http://www.elbashayer.com/?page=viewn&nid=42546 +# http://www.babnet.net/kiwidetail-15295.asp +# +# We have also confirmed this with the US embassy in Tunisia. +# We have a wrap-up about this on the following page: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/tunisia-cancels-dst-2009.html + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): +# Here is a link to Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency +# +# Standard time to be kept the whole year long (tap.info.tn): +# +# (in English) +# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26813&Itemid=157 +# +# (in Arabic) +# http://www.tap.info.tn/ar/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61240&Itemid=1 + +# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-18): +# The Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency notice contains this: "This measure is +# due to the fact that the fasting month of Ramadan coincides with the period +# concerned by summer time. Therefore, the standard time will be kept +# unchanged the whole year long." So foregoing DST seems to be an exception +# (albeit one that may be repeated in the future). + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-27): +# According to some news reports Tunis confirmed not to use DST in 2010 +# +# (translation): +# "The Tunisian government has decided to abandon DST, which was scheduled on +# Sunday... +# Tunisian authorities had suspended the DST for the first time last year also +# coincided with the month of Ramadan..." +# +# (in Arabic) +# http://www.moheet.com/show_news.aspx?nid=358861&pg=1 +# http://www.almadenahnews.com/newss/news.php?c=118&id=38036 +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_tunis02.html + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1940 only - Feb 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 17 2:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 25 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1944 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1945 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Apr 30 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Sep 24 0:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1978 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - + +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's +# more precise 0:09:21. +# Shanks & Pottenger say the 1911 switch was 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 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time + 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT + +# Uganda +# See Africa/Nairobi. + +# Zambia +# Zimbabwe +# See Africa/Maputo.