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| 1# tzdb data for Africa and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see --- 372 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 381# Gabon 382# See Africa/Lagos. 383 384# Gambia 385# See Africa/Abidjan. 386 387# Ghana 388 | 1# tzdb data for Africa and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see --- 372 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 381# Gabon 382# See Africa/Lagos. 383 384# Gambia 385# See Africa/Abidjan. 386 387# Ghana 388 |
| 389# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-30): 390# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to "the present"; 391# Shanks & Pottenger say 1936 to 1942 with 20 minutes of DST, 392# with transitions on 09-01 and 12-31 at 00:00. 393# Page 33 of Parish GCB, Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 1066. Gold 394# Coast. Report for 1919. (March 1921), OCLC 784024077 395# http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/africana/books2011-05/5530214/5530214_1919/5530214_1919_opt.pdf 396# lists the Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919, No. 18, 397# "to advance the time observed locally by the space of twenty minutes 398# during the last four months of each year; the object in view being 399# to extend during those months the period of daylight-time available 400# for evening recreation after office hours." 401# Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950 (2015), p 33, 402# writes "In 1919, the Gold Coast (Ghana as of 1957) made Greenwich 403# time its legal time and simultaneously legalized a summer time of 404# UTC - 00:20 minutes from March to October."; a footnote lists 405# the ordinance as being dated 1919-11-24. 406# The Crown Colonist, Volume 12 (1942), p 176, says "the Government 407# intend advancing Gold Coast time half an hour ahead of G.M.T. 408# The actual date of the alteration has not yet been announced." 409# These sources are incomplete and contradictory. Possibly what is 410# now Ghana observed different DST regimes in different years. For 411# lack of better info, use Shanks except treat the minus sign as a 412# typo, and assume DST started in 1920 not 1936. | 389# From P Chan (2020-11-20): 390# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02] 391# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71 392# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 393# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the 394# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876. 395# 396# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24] 397# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76 398# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 399# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST. 400# 401# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214) 402# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate) 403# Vol. II (1937), p 2328 404# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328 405# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance. 406# 407# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06] 408# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 409# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22 410# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22 411# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May. 412# 413# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942 414# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08] 415# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 416# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48 417# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48 418# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes. 419# 420# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, 421# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25] 422# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 423# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87 424# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 425# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30. 426# 427# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of 428# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06] 429# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 430# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256 431# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 432# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations. 433# 434# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06] 435# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 436# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69 437# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 438# This Ordinance abolished DST. 439# 440# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22] 441# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 442# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35 443# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35 444# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset. 445# 446# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264) 447# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380 448# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380 449# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance. 450# 451# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29] 452# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the 453# Year 1956, p 83 454# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 455# This Ordinance abolished DST. 456 |
| 413# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 457# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 414Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 - 415Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 - | 458Rule Ghana 1919 only - Nov 24 0:00 0:20 +0020 459Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT 460Rule Ghana 1920 1939 - Sep 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 461Rule Ghana 1940 1941 - May 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 462Rule Ghana 1950 1955 - Sep 1 2:00 0:30 +0030 463Rule Ghana 1951 1956 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT 464 |
| 416# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 465# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 417Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 418 0:00 Ghana GMT/+0020 | 466Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2 467 0:00 Ghana %s 1942 Feb 8 468 0:30 - +0030 1946 Jan 6 469 0:00 Ghana %s |
| 419 420# Guinea 421# See Africa/Abidjan. 422 423# Guinea-Bissau 424# 425# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): 426# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, 427# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree 428# (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect. 429# 430# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 431Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u 432 -1:00 - -01 1975 433 0:00 - GMT 434 435# Kenya | 470 471# Guinea 472# See Africa/Abidjan. 473 474# Guinea-Bissau 475# 476# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): 477# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, 478# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree 479# (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect. 480# 481# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 482Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u 483 -1:00 - -01 1975 484 0:00 - GMT 485 486# Kenya |
| 487 488# From P Chan (2020-10-24): 489# 490# The standard time of GMT+2:30 was adopted in the East Africa Protectorate.... 491# [The Official Gazette, 1908-05-01, p 274] 492# https://books.google.com/books?id=e-cAC-sjPSEC&pg=PA274 493# 494# At midnight on 30 June 1928 the clocks throughout Kenya was put forward 495# half an hour by the Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1928. 496# https://gazettes.africa/archive/ke/1928/ke-government-gazette-dated-1928-05-11-no-28.pdf 497# [Ordinance No. 11 of 1928, The Offical Gazette, 1928-06-26, p 813] 498# https://books.google.com/books?id=2S0S6os32ZUC&pg=PA813 499# 500# The 1928 ordinance was repealed by the Alteration of Time (repeal) Ordinance, 501# 1929 and the time was restored to GMT+2:30 at midnight on 4 January 1930. 502# [Ordinance No. 97 of 1929, The Official Gazette, 1929-12-31, p 2701] 503# https://books.google.com/books?id=_g18jIZQlwwC&pg=PA2701 504# 505# The Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1936 changed the time to GMT+2:45 506# and repealed the previous ordinance at midnight on 31 December 1936. 507# [The Official Gazette, 1936-07-21, p 705] 508# https://books.google.com/books?id=K7j41z0aC5wC&pg=PA705 509# 510# The Defence (Amendment of Laws No. 120) Regulations changed the time 511# to GMT+3 at midnight on 31 July 1942. 512# [Kenya Official Gazette Supplement No. 32, 1942-07-21, p 331] 513# https://books.google.com/books?hl=zh-TW&id=c_E-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA331 514# The provision of the 1936 ordinance was not repealed and was later 515# incorporated in the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance in 1948. 516# Although it was overridden by the 1942 regulations. 517# [The Laws of Kenya in force on 1948-09-21, Title I, Chapter 1, 31] 518# https://dds.crl.edu/item/217517 (p.101) 519# In 1950 the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance was amended to adopt 520# GMT+3 permanently as the 1942 regulations were due to expire on 10 December. 521# https://books.google.com/books?id=jvR8mUDAwR0C&pg=PA787 522# [Ordinance No. 44 of 1950, Kenya Ordinances 1950, Vol. XXIX, p 294] 523# https://books.google.com/books?id=-_dQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA294 524 525# From Paul Eggert (2020-10-24): 526# The 1908-05-01 announcement does not give an effective date, 527# so just say "1908 May". 528 |
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| 436# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 529# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 437Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul 438 3:00 - EAT 1930 439 2:30 - +0230 1940 440 2:45 - +0245 1960 | 530Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1908 May 531 2:30 - +0230 1928 Jun 30 24:00 532 3:00 - EAT 1930 Jan 4 24:00 533 2:30 - +0230 1936 Dec 31 24:00 534 2:45 - +0245 1942 Jul 31 24:00 |
| 441 3:00 - EAT 442Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia 443Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea 444Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania 445Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti 446Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda 447Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia 448Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar --- 770 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1219# 1:00 Namibia %s 2017 Oct 24 1220# 2:00 - CAT 1221# End of rearguard section. 1222 1223# Niger 1224# See Africa/Lagos. 1225 1226# Nigeria | 535 3:00 - EAT 536Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia 537Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea 538Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania 539Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti 540Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda 541Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia 542Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar --- 770 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1313# 1:00 Namibia %s 2017 Oct 24 1314# 2:00 - CAT 1315# End of rearguard section. 1316 1317# Niger 1318# See Africa/Lagos. 1319 1320# Nigeria |
| 1321 1322# From P Chan (2020-12-03): 1323# GMT was adopted as the standard time of Lagos on 1905-07-01. 1324# Lagos Weekly Record, 1905-06-24, p 3 1325# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31558#?c=0&m=668&s=0&cv=2&r=0&xywh=1446%2C5221%2C1931%2C1235 1326# says "It is officially notified that on and after the 1st of July 1905 1327# Greenwich Mean Solar Time will be adopted thought the Colony and 1328# Protectorate, and that it will be necessary to put all clocks 13 minutes and 1329# 35 seconds back, recording local mean time." 1330# 1331# It seemed that Lagos returned to LMT on 1908-07-01. 1332# [The Lagos Standard], 1908-07-01, p 5 1333# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31556#?c=0&m=78&s=0&cv=4&r=0&xywh=-92%2C3590%2C3944%2C2523 1334# says "Scarcely have the people become accustomed to this new time, when 1335# another official notice has now appeared announcing that from and after the 1336# 1st July next, return will be made to local mean time." 1337# 1338# From P Chan (2020-11-27): 1339# On 1914-01-01, standard time of GMT+0:30 was adopted for the unified Nigeria. 1340# Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 878. Nigeria. Report for 1914. (April 1916), 1341# p 27 1342# https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1914/3064634_1914_opt.pdf#page=27 1343# "On January 1st [1914], a universal standard time for Nigeria was adopted, 1344# viz., half an hour fast on Greenwich mean time, corresponding to the meridian 1345# 7 [degrees] 30' E. long." 1346# Lloyd's Register of Shipping (1915) says "Hitherto the time observed in Lagos 1347# was the local mean time. On 1st January, 1914, standard time for the whole of 1348# Nigeria was introduced ... Lagos time has been advanced about 16 minutes 1349# accordingly." 1350# 1351# In 1919, standard time was changed to GMT+1. 1352# Interpretation Ordinance (Cap 2) 1353# The Laws of Nigeria, Containing the Ordinances of Nigeria, in Force on the 1354# 1st Day of January, 1923, Vol.I [p 16] 1355# https://books.google.com/books?id=BOMrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 1356# "The expression 'Standard time' means standard time as used in Nigeria: 1357# namely, 60 minutes in advance of Greenwich mean time. (As amended by 18 of 1358# 1919, s. 2.)" 1359# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-10): 1360# The Lagos Weekly Record, 1919-09-20, p 3 details discussion on the first 1361# reading of this Bill by the Legislative Council of the Colony of Nigeria on 1362# Thursday 1919-08-28: 1363# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31558?terms&item_id=303484#?m=1118&c=1&s=0&cv=2&r=0&xywh=1261%2C3408%2C2994%2C1915 1364# "The proposal is that the Globe should be divided into twelve zones East and 1365# West of Greenwich, of one hour each, Nigeria falling into the zone with a 1366# standard of one hour fast on Greenwich Mean Time. Nigeria standard time is 1367# now 30 minutes in advance of Greenwich Mean Time ... according to the new 1368# proposal, standard time will be advanced another 30 minutes". It was further 1369# proposed that the firing of the time guns likewise be adjusted by 30 minutes 1370# to compensate. 1371# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-10), per P Chan (2020-12-11): 1372# The text of Ordinance 18 of 1919, published in Nigeria Gazette, Vol 6, No 52, 1373# shows that the change was assented to the following day and took effect "on 1374# the 1st day of September, 1919." 1375# Nigeria Gazette and Supplements 1919 Jan-Dec, Reference: 73266B-40, 1376# img 245-246 1377# https://microform.digital/boa/collections/77/volumes/539/nigeria-lagos-1887-1919 1378 |
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| 1227# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 1379# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 1228Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep | 1380Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:35 - LMT 1905 Jul 1 1381 0:00 - GMT 1908 Jul 1 1382 0:13:35 - LMT 1914 Jan 1 1383 0:30 - +0030 1919 Sep 1 |
| 1229 1:00 - WAT 1230Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic 1231Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo 1232Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala # Cameroon 1233Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa # Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west) 1234Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville # Gabon 1235Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola 1236Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea --- 56 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1293 0:00 - GMT 2018 Jan 1 01:00 1294 1:00 - WAT 2019 Jan 1 02:00 1295 0:00 - GMT 1296 1297# Senegal 1298# See Africa/Abidjan. 1299 1300# Seychelles | 1384 1:00 - WAT 1385Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic 1386Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo 1387Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala # Cameroon 1388Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa # Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west) 1389Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville # Gabon 1390Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola 1391Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea --- 56 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1448 0:00 - GMT 2018 Jan 1 01:00 1449 1:00 - WAT 2019 Jan 1 02:00 1450 0:00 - GMT 1451 1452# Senegal 1453# See Africa/Abidjan. 1454 1455# Seychelles |
| 1456 1457# From P Chan (2020-11-27): 1458# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01. 1459# 1460# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237) 1461# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571 1462# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 1463# 1464# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): 1465# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689 1466# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st 1467# January, 1907." 1468 |
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| 1301# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 1469# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 1302Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria | 1470Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1907 Jan 1 # Victoria |
| 1303 4:00 - +04 1304# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 1305# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the 1306# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory 1307# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know 1308# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. 1309# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. 1310 --- 167 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1471 4:00 - +04 1472# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 1473# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the 1474# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory 1475# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know 1476# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. 1477# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. 1478 --- 167 unchanged lines hidden --- |