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| 1# <pre> 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 6# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 7# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). 8 | 1# <pre> 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 6# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 7# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). 8 |
| 9# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): | 9# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): |
| 10# 11# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 12# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 14# 15# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 16# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 17# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 18# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 19# of the IATA's data after 1990. 20# 21# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 22# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 23# 24# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 25# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 26# I found in the UCLA library. 27# | 10# 11# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 12# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 14# 15# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 16# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 17# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 18# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 19# of the IATA's data after 1990. 20# 21# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 22# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 23# 24# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 25# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 26# I found in the UCLA library. 27# |
| 28# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 29# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 30# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 31# |
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| 28# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 29# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 30# 31# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT 32# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, 33# but Mark R V Murray reports that 34# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, 35# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and --- 75 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 111# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; 112# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 113# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 114Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912 115 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 116 1:00 - WAT 117 118# Botswana | 32# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 33# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 34# 35# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT 36# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, 37# but Mark R V Murray reports that 38# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, 39# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and --- 75 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 115# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; 116# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 117# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 118Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912 119 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 120 1:00 - WAT 121 122# Botswana |
| 123# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 124# Milne says they were regulated by the Cape Town Signal in 1899; 125# assume they switched to 2:00 when Cape Town did. |
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| 119# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 120Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885 | 126# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 127Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885 |
| 128 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar |
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| 121 2:00 - CAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 122 2:00 1:00 CAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 123 2:00 - CAT 124 125# Burkina Faso 126# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 127Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912 128 0:00 - GMT --- 55 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 184# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 185Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 186 3:00 - EAT 187 188############################################################################### 189 190# Egypt 191 | 129 2:00 - CAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 130 2:00 1:00 CAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 131 2:00 - CAT 132 133# Burkina Faso 134# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 135Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912 136 0:00 - GMT --- 55 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 192# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 193Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 194 3:00 - EAT 195 196############################################################################### 197 198# Egypt 199 |
| 200# Milne says Cairo used 2:05:08.9, the local mean time of the Abbasizeh 201# observatory; round to nearest. Milne also says that the official time for 202# Egypt was mean noon at the Great Pyramid, 2:04:30.5, but apparently this 203# did not apply to Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said. 204 |
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| 192# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 193Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S 194Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 195Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 196Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 197Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 198Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 - 199Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 - --- 124 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 324 325Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 23:00s 0 - 326Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 23:00s 0 - 327Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 - 328Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 10 0:00 1:00 S 329Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - 330 331# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 205# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 206Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S 207Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 208Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 209Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 210Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 211Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 - 212Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 - --- 124 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 337 338Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 23:00s 0 - 339Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 23:00s 0 - 340Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 - 341Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 10 0:00 1:00 S 342Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - 343 344# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 332Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct | 345Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct |
| 333 2:00 Egypt EE%sT 334 335# Equatorial Guinea 336# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 337Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912 338 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15 339 1:00 - WAT 340 --- 487 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 828# 2012) and in accordance with the order of Mr. President of the 829# Government No. 3-47-12 issued on 24 Sha'ban (11 July 2012), the Ministry 830# of Public Service and Administration Modernization announces the return 831# of the legal time of the Kingdom (GMT) from Friday, July 20, 2012 until 832# Monday, August 20, 2012. So the time will be delayed by 60 minutes from 833# 3:00 am Friday, July 20, 2012 and will again be advanced by 60 minutes 834# August 20, 2012 from 2:00 am. 835 | 346 2:00 Egypt EE%sT 347 348# Equatorial Guinea 349# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 350Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912 351 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15 352 1:00 - WAT 353 --- 487 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 841# 2012) and in accordance with the order of Mr. President of the 842# Government No. 3-47-12 issued on 24 Sha'ban (11 July 2012), the Ministry 843# of Public Service and Administration Modernization announces the return 844# of the legal time of the Kingdom (GMT) from Friday, July 20, 2012 until 845# Monday, August 20, 2012. So the time will be delayed by 60 minutes from 846# 3:00 am Friday, July 20, 2012 and will again be advanced by 60 minutes 847# August 20, 2012 from 2:00 am. 848 |
| 849# From Paul Eggert (2013-03-06): 850# Morocco's daylight-saving transitions due to Ramadan seem to be 851# announced a bit in advance. On 2012-07-11 the Moroccan government 852# announced that year's Ramadan daylight-saving transitions would be 853# 2012-07-20 and 2012-08-20; see 854# <http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288>. 855# 856# To estimate what the Moroccan government will do in future years, 857# transition dates for 2013 through 2021 were determined by running 858# the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3: 859# 860# (let ((islamic-year 1434)) 861# (while (< islamic-year 1444) 862# (let ((a 863# (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute 864# (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))) 865# (b 866# (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute 867# (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year))))) 868# (insert 869# (format 870# (concat "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t %2d\t 3:00\t0\t-\n" 871# "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t %2d\t 2:00\t1:00\tS\n") 872# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a)) 873# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b))))) 874# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year)))) 875# 876# with the results hand-edited for 2020-2022, when the normal spring-forward 877# date falls during the estimated Ramadan. 878# 879# From 2023 through 2038 Ramadan is not predicted to overlap with 880# daylight saving time. Starting in 2039 there will be overlap again, 881# but 32-bit time_t values roll around in 2038 so for now do not worry 882# about dates after 2038. 883 |
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| 836# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 837 838Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S 839Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 - 840Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S 841Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 - 842Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S 843Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 - --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 853Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 854Rule Morocco 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 855Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 856Rule Morocco 2009 only - Aug 21 0:00 0 - 857Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S 858Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 - 859Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 860Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 - | 884# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 885 886Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S 887Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 - 888Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S 889Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 - 890Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S 891Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 - --- 9 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 901Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 902Rule Morocco 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 903Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 904Rule Morocco 2009 only - Aug 21 0:00 0 - 905Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S 906Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 - 907Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 908Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 - |
| 861Rule Morocco 2012 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S | 909Rule Morocco 2012 2019 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S |
| 862Rule Morocco 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 863Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 - 864Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S | 910Rule Morocco 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 911Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 - 912Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S |
| 913Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 9 3:00 0 - 914Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 8 2:00 1:00 S 915Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 29 3:00 0 - 916Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jul 29 2:00 1:00 S 917Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 18 3:00 0 - 918Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 18 2:00 1:00 S 919Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 7 3:00 0 - 920Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 7 2:00 1:00 S 921Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 27 3:00 0 - 922Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jun 26 2:00 1:00 S 923Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 16 3:00 0 - 924Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 15 2:00 1:00 S 925Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 6 3:00 0 - 926Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 5 2:00 1:00 S 927Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S 928Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 13 2:00 1:00 S 929Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 3 2:00 1:00 S 930Rule Morocco 2023 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S |
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| 865 866# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 867Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 868 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 869 1:00 - CET 1986 870 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 871# Western Sahara 872Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan --- 309 unchanged lines hidden --- | 931 932# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 933Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 934 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 935 1:00 - CET 1986 936 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 937# Western Sahara 938Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan --- 309 unchanged lines hidden --- |