| africa (86464) | africa (149514) |
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| 1# @(#)africa 7.36 | 1# @(#)africa 7.39 |
| 2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 | 2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 |
| 7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): | 7# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): |
| 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 12# 13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 24# I found in the UCLA library. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT 30# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, | 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 12# 13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 24# I found in the UCLA library. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT 30# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, |
| 31# but Mark R V Murray <markm@grondar.za> reports that | 31# but Mark R V Murray reports that |
| 32# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, 33# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and 34# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for 35# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''. 36# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference. 37# 38# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago; 39# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00, --- 242 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 282# Lesotho 283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 284Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 285 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00 286 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 287 2:00 - SAST 288 289# Liberia | 32# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, 33# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and 34# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for 35# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''. 36# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference. 37# 38# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago; 39# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00, --- 242 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 282# Lesotho 283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 284Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 285 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00 286 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 287 2:00 - SAST 288 289# Liberia |
| 290# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2001-07-17): | 290# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): |
| 291# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch 292# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. 293# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. 294# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks. 295# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman 296# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. 297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 298Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 312Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S 313Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - 314Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 315Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 316Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S 317Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S 318Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 319Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S | 291# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch 292# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. 293# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. 294# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks. 295# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman 296# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. 297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 298Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 312Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S 313Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - 314Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 315Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 316Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S 317Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S 318Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 319Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S |
| 320Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - | 320Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - |
| 321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 322Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 323 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 324 2:00 - EET 1982 325 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4 326# The following entries are all from Shanks; 327# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors. 328 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30 --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 343 2:00 - CAT 344 345# Mali 346# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 347Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 348 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 349 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20 350 0:00 - GMT | 321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 322Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 323 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 324 2:00 - EET 1982 325 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4 326# The following entries are all from Shanks; 327# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors. 328 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30 --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 343 2:00 - CAT 344 345# Mali 346# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 347Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 348 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 349 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20 350 0:00 - GMT |
| 351# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit 352Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 353 0:00 - GMT | |
| 354 355# Mauritania 356# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 357Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 358 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 359 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28 360 0:00 - GMT 361 --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 552 3:00 - EAT 553 554# Togo 555# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 556Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 557 0:00 - GMT 558 559# Tunisia | 351 352# Mauritania 353# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 354Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 355 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 356 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28 357 0:00 - GMT 358 --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 549 3:00 - EAT 550 551# Togo 552# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 553Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 554 0:00 - GMT 555 556# Tunisia |
| 557 558# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): 559# 560# My correspondent, Risto Nykanen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, 561# this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News 562# <http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html>, in a story attributed to AP 563# and dated 2005-04-26, "Tunisia has decided to advance its official time by 564# one hour, starting on Sunday, May 1. Henceforth, Tunisian time will be 565# UTC+2 instead of UTC+1. The change will take place at 23:00 UTC next 566# Saturday." (My translation) 567# 568# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02): 569# LaPresse, the first national daily newspaper ... 570# <http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html> 571# ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, 572# 1h standard time. 573 |
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| 560# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 561Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S 562Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - 563Rule Tunisia 1940 only - Feb 25 23:00s 1:00 S 564Rule Tunisia 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 - 565Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 1:00 S 566Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - 567Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 574Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Apr 30 0:00s 1:00 S 575Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Sep 24 0:00s 0 - 576Rule Tunisia 1978 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S 577Rule Tunisia 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - 578Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S 579Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 580Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S 581Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S | 574# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 575Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S 576Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - 577Rule Tunisia 1940 only - Feb 25 23:00s 1:00 S 578Rule Tunisia 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 - 579Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 1:00 S 580Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - 581Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 588Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Apr 30 0:00s 1:00 S 589Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Sep 24 0:00s 0 - 590Rule Tunisia 1978 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S 591Rule Tunisia 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - 592Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S 593Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 594Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S 595Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S |
| 596Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S 597Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - |
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| 582# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. 583# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. 584# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 585Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 586 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 587 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT 588 589# Uganda --- 16 unchanged lines hidden --- | 598# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. 599# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. 600# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 601Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 602 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 603 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT 604 605# Uganda --- 16 unchanged lines hidden --- |