1# @(#)africa 7.16
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> (1996-11-22):
8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
12#
13# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> 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),
16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
17# of the IATA's data after 1990.
18#
19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
21#
22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
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 the discovery of the longitude,
28# Oxford University Press (1980).
29#
30# I added so many Zone names that the old, mostly flat name space was unwieldy.
31# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where
32# AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and
33# LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region.
34# For example, the old zone name `Egypt' is now `Africa/Cairo'.
35#
36# Here are the general rules I used for choosing location names,
37# in decreasing order of importance:
38#
39# Use only valid Posix file names. Use only Ascii letters, digits, `.',
40# `-' and `_'. Do not exceed 14 characters or start with `-'.
41# E.g. prefer `Brunei' to `Bandar_Seri_Begawan'.
42# Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country.
43# One such location is enough.
44# If all the clocks in a country's region have agreed since 1970,
45# don't bother to include more than one location
46# even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970.
47# Otherwise these tables would become annoyingly large.
48# If a name is ambiguous, use a less ambiguous alternative;
49# e.g. many cities are named San Jose and Georgetown, so
50# prefer `Costa_Rica' to `San_Jose' and `Guyana' to `Georgetown'.
51# Keep locations compact. Use cities or small islands, not countries
52# or regions, so that any future time zone changes do not split
53# locations into different time zones. E.g. prefer `Paris'
54# to `France', since France has had multiple time zones.
55# Use traditional English spelling, e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Roma', and
56# prefer `Athens' to the true name (which uses Greek letters).
57# The Posix file name restrictions encourage this rule.
58# Use the most populous among locations in a country's time zone,
59# e.g. prefer `Shanghai' to `Beijing'. Among locations with
60# similar populations, pick the best-known location,
61# e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Milan'.
62# Use the singular form, e.g. prefer `Canary' to `Canaries'.
63# Omit common suffixes like `_Islands' and `_City', unless that
64# would lead to ambiguity. E.g. prefer `Cayman' to
65# `Cayman_Islands' and `Guatemala' to `Guatemala_City',
66# but prefer `Mexico_City' to `Mexico' because the country
67# of Mexico has several time zones.
68# Use `_' to represent a space.
69# Omit `.' from abbreviations in names, e.g. prefer `St_Helena'
70# to `St._Helena'.
71#
72# For time zone abbreviations like `EST' I used the following rules,
73# in decreasing order of importance:
74#
75# Use abbreviations that consist of 3 or more upper-case Ascii letters,
76# except use "___" for locations while uninhabited.
77# Posix.1 requires at least 3 characters, and the restriction to
78# upper-case Ascii letters follows most traditions.
79# Previous editions of this database also used characters like
80# ' ' and '?', but these characters have a special meaning to
81# the shell and cause commands like
82# set `date`
83# to have unexpected effects. In theory, the character set could
84# be !%./@A-Z^_a-z{}, but these tables use only upper-case
85# Ascii letters (and "___").
86# Use abbreviations that are in common use among English-speakers,
87# e.g. `EST' for Eastern Standard Time in North America.
88# We assume that applications translate them to other languages
89# as part of the normal localization process; for example,
90# a French application might translate `EST' to `HNE'.
91# For zones whose times are taken from a city's longitude, use the
92# traditional xMT notation, e.g. `PMT' for Paris Mean Time.
93# The only name like this in current use is `GMT'.
94# If there is no common English abbreviation, abbreviate the English
95# translation of the usual phrase used by native speakers.
96# If this is not available or is a phrase mentioning the country
97# (e.g. ``Cape Verde Time''), then:
98#
99# When a country has a single or principal time zone region,
100# append `T' to the country's ISO code, e.g. `CVT' for
101# Cape Verde Time. For summer time append `ST';
102# for double summer time append `DST'; etc.
103# When a country has multiple time zones, take the first three
104# letters of an English place name identifying each zone
105# and then append `T', `ST', etc. as before;
106# e.g. `MOSST' for MOScow Summer Time.
107#
108#
109# For Africa I invented the following time zone abbreviations.
110# LMT Local Mean Time
111# -1:00 AAT Atlantic Africa Time (no longer used)
112# 0:00 WAT West Africa Time
113# 1:00 CAT Central Africa Time
114# 2:00 SAT South Africa Time
115# 3:00 EAT East Africa Time
116# The final `T' is replaced by `ST' for summer time, e.g. `SAST'.
117# BEAT is British East Africa Time, which was 2:30 before 1948 and 2:45 after.
118
119
120# Algeria
121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
122Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
123Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun<=7 23:00s 0 -
124Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
125Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
126Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
127Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
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153 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26
154 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May
155 1:00 - CET
156
157# Angola
158# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
159Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
160 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time?
161 1:00 - CAT
162
163# Bassas da India
164# uninhabited
165
166# Benin
167# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks.
168# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
169Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912
170 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
171 1:00 - CAT
172
173# Botswana
174# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
175Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885
176 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
177 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
178 2:00 - SAT
179
180# Burkina Faso
181# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
182Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912
183 0:00 - WAT
184
185# Burundi
186# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
187Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890
188 2:00 - SAT
189
190# Cameroon
191# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks.
192# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
193Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912
194 1:00 - CAT
195
196# Cape Verde
197# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
198Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia
199 -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep
200 -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15
201 -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00
202 -1:00 - CVT
203
204# Central African Republic
205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
206Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912
207 1:00 - CAT
208
209# Chad
210# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
211Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912
212 1:00 - CAT 1979 Oct 14
213 1:00 1:00 CAST 1980 Mar 8
214 1:00 - CAT
215
216# Comoros
217# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
218Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
219 3:00 - EAT
220
221# Congo
222# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
223Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912
224 1:00 - CAT
225
226# Cote D'Ivoire
227# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
228Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
229 0:00 - WAT
230
231# Djibouti
232# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
233Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul
234 3:00 - EAT
235
236###############################################################################
237
238# Egypt
239
240# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
241# Egypt: DST from first day of May to first of October (ending may
242# also be on Sept 30th not 31st -- you might want to ask one of the
243# soc.* groups, you might hit someone who could ask an embassy).
244# DST since 1960 except for 1981-82.
245
246# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
247# EGYPT 2 H AHEAD OF UTC
248# EGYPT 3 H AHEAD OF UTC MAY 17 - SEP 30 (AFTER
249# EGYPT RAMADAN)
250
251# From Shanks (1991):
252# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
253Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S
254Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
255Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S
256Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
257Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
258Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 -
259Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
260Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S
261Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
262Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
263Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
264Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
265Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
266Rule Egypt 1966 1990 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
267Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S
268Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S
269Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
270Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S
271Rule Egypt 1990 only - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
272Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
273Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
274Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00 1:00 S
275Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastFri 0:00 0 -
276
277# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
278Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct
279 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
280
281# Equatorial Guinea
282# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
283Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912
284 0:00 - WAT 1963 Dec 15
285 1:00 - CAT
286
287# Eritrea
288# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
289Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870
290 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time
291 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
292 3:00 - EAT
293
294# Ethiopia
295# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
296Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
297 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
298 3:00 - EAT
299
300# Europa Island
301# uninhabited
302
303# Gabon
304# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
305Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912
306 1:00 - CAT
307
308# Gambia
309# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
310Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912
311 -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time
312 -1:00 - AAT 1964
313 0:00 - WAT
314
315# Ghana
316# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-09-03):
317# WATST is my invention for ``West Africa one-Third Summer Time''.
318# From Shanks (1991):
319# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
320# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; go with Shanks.
321Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 WATST
322Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 WAT
323# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
324Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
325 0:00 Ghana %s
326
327# Glorioso Is
328# uninhabited
329
330# Guinea
331# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
332Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912
333 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
334 1:00 - CAT 1960
335 0:00 - WAT
336
337# Guinea-Bissau
338# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
339Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26
340 1:00 - CAT 1975
341 0:00 - WAT
342
343# Juan de Nova
344# uninhabited
345
346# Kenya
347# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
348# Shanks says the transition to 2:45 was in 1940, but it must have been 1948.
349# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
350Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
351 3:00 - EAT 1930
352 2:30 - BEAT 1948
353 2:45 - BEAT 1960
354 3:00 - EAT
355
356# Lesotho
357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
358Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
359 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
360 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
361 2:00 - SAT
362
363# Liberia
364# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
365# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
366# from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes.
367# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
368# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks.
369# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman
370# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
371#
372# From Shanks (1991), as corrected by Whitman:
373# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
374Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882
375 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
376 -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time
377 0:00 - WAT
378
379###############################################################################
380
381# Libya
382
383# From Bob Devine (January 28 1988):
384# Libya: Since 1982 April 1st to September 30th (?)
385
386# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
387# LIBYAN ARAB 1 H AHEAD OF UTC JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA
388# LIBYAN ARAB 2 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 1 - SEP 30 JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA
389
390# From Shanks (1991):
391# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
392Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S
393Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
394Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
395Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
396Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S
397Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
398Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
399Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
400Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
401Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
402Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
403Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
404Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
405Rule Libya 1990 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S
406Rule Libya 1996 max - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S
407Rule Libya 1996 max - Sep 30 2:00s 0 -
408# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
409Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
410 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
411 2:00 - EET 1982
412 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1991
413 2:00 - EET 1996 Mar 30 3:00
414 1:00 Libya CE%sT
415
416# Madagascar
417# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
418Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul
419 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s
420 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s
421 3:00 - EAT
422
423# Malawi
424# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
425Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
426 2:00 - SAT
427
428# Mali
429# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
430Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912
431 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
432 -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20
433 0:00 - WAT
434# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit
435Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912
436 0:00 - WAT
437
438# Mauritania
439# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
440Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912
441 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
442 -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20
443 0:00 - WAT
444
445# Mauritius
446# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
447Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
448 4:00 - MUT # Mauritius Time
449# Agalega Is, Rodriguez
450# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
451
452# Mayotte
453# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
454Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
455 3:00 - EAT
456
457# Morocco
458# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
459Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
460Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
461Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
462Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
463Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
464Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
465Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
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473Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
474# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
475Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
476 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
477 1:00 - CET 1986
478 0:00 - WET
479# Western Sahara
480Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan
481 -1:00 - AAT 1976 Apr 14
482 0:00 - WET
483
484# Mozambique
485# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
486Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
487 2:00 - SAT
488
489# Namibia
490# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
491Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
492Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
493# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
494Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
495 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time
496 2:00 - SAT 1942 Sep 20 2:00
497 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
498 2:00 Namibia SA%sT
499
500# Niger
501# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
502Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912
503 1:00 - CAT 1934 Feb 26
504 0:00 - WAT 1960
505 1:00 - CAT
506
507# Nigeria
508# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
509Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
510 1:00 - CAT
511
512# Reunion
513# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
514Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
515 4:00 - RET # Reunion Time
516
517# Rwanda
518# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
519Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun
520 2:00 - SAT
521
522# St Helena
523# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
524Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown
525 -0:06 - SHT 1951 # St Helena Time (?)
526 0:00 - GMT
527# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
528# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, says Whitman
529# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995
530# Gough, Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT
531
532# Sao Tome and Principe
533# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
534Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884
535 -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 # Lisbon Mean Time
536 0:00 - WAT
537
538# Senegal
539# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
540Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912
541 -1:00 - AAT 1941 Jun
542 0:00 - WAT
543
544# Seychelles
545# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
546Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
547 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time
548
549# Sierra Leone
550# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
551# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks.
552Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
553Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
554Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
555Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
556# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
557Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882
558 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time
559 -1:00 SL AA%sT 1957
560 0:00 SL WA%sT
561
562# Somalia
563# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
564# Shanks omits the 1948 transition to 2:45; this is probably a typo.
565# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
566Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov
567 3:00 - EAT 1931
568 2:30 - BEAT 1948
569 2:45 - BEAT 1957 # not in Shanks
570 3:00 - EAT
571
572# South Africa
573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
574Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
575Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
576# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
577Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
578 1:30 - SAT 1903 Mar
579 2:00 SA SA%sT
580# Prince Edward Is
581# no information
582
583# Sudan
584# From Michael Ross <mross@antigone.com> (1995-11-15):
585# Sudan no longer observes any form of daylight time change.
586# I verified this today by telephone with the Sudan Mission to the
587# United Nations: 212-573-6033
588# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
589Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
590Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
591Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
592Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
593# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
594Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
595 2:00 Sudan EE%sT
596
597# Swaziland
598# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
599Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar
600 2:00 - SAT
601
602# Tanzania
603# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
604Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
605 3:00 - EAT 1948
606 2:45 - BEAT 1961
607 3:00 - EAT
608
609# Togo
610# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
611Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
612 0:00 - WAT
613
614# Tromelin
615# uninhabited
616
617# Tunisia
618# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
619Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
620Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
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644 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
645 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
646
647# Uganda
648# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
649Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul
650 3:00 - EAT 1930
651 2:30 - BEAT 1948
652 2:45 - BEAT 1957
653 3:00 - EAT
654
655# Zaire
656# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
657Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
658 1:00 - CAT
659Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
660 2:00 - SAT
661
662# Zambia
663# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
664Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar
665 2:00 - SAT
666
667# Zimbabwe
668# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
669Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar
670 2:00 - SAT
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> (1996-11-22):
8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
12#
13# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> 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),
16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
17# of the IATA's data after 1990.
18#
19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
21#
22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
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 the discovery of the longitude,
28# Oxford University Press (1980).
29#
30# I added so many Zone names that the old, mostly flat name space was unwieldy.
31# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where
32# AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and
33# LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region.
34# For example, the old zone name `Egypt' is now `Africa/Cairo'.
35#
36# Here are the general rules I used for choosing location names,
37# in decreasing order of importance:
38#
39# Use only valid Posix file names. Use only Ascii letters, digits, `.',
40# `-' and `_'. Do not exceed 14 characters or start with `-'.
41# E.g. prefer `Brunei' to `Bandar_Seri_Begawan'.
42# Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country.
43# One such location is enough.
44# If all the clocks in a country's region have agreed since 1970,
45# don't bother to include more than one location
46# even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970.
47# Otherwise these tables would become annoyingly large.
48# If a name is ambiguous, use a less ambiguous alternative;
49# e.g. many cities are named San Jose and Georgetown, so
50# prefer `Costa_Rica' to `San_Jose' and `Guyana' to `Georgetown'.
51# Keep locations compact. Use cities or small islands, not countries
52# or regions, so that any future time zone changes do not split
53# locations into different time zones. E.g. prefer `Paris'
54# to `France', since France has had multiple time zones.
55# Use traditional English spelling, e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Roma', and
56# prefer `Athens' to the true name (which uses Greek letters).
57# The Posix file name restrictions encourage this rule.
58# Use the most populous among locations in a country's time zone,
59# e.g. prefer `Shanghai' to `Beijing'. Among locations with
60# similar populations, pick the best-known location,
61# e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Milan'.
62# Use the singular form, e.g. prefer `Canary' to `Canaries'.
63# Omit common suffixes like `_Islands' and `_City', unless that
64# would lead to ambiguity. E.g. prefer `Cayman' to
65# `Cayman_Islands' and `Guatemala' to `Guatemala_City',
66# but prefer `Mexico_City' to `Mexico' because the country
67# of Mexico has several time zones.
68# Use `_' to represent a space.
69# Omit `.' from abbreviations in names, e.g. prefer `St_Helena'
70# to `St._Helena'.
71#
72# For time zone abbreviations like `EST' I used the following rules,
73# in decreasing order of importance:
74#
75# Use abbreviations that consist of 3 or more upper-case Ascii letters,
76# except use "___" for locations while uninhabited.
77# Posix.1 requires at least 3 characters, and the restriction to
78# upper-case Ascii letters follows most traditions.
79# Previous editions of this database also used characters like
80# ' ' and '?', but these characters have a special meaning to
81# the shell and cause commands like
82# set `date`
83# to have unexpected effects. In theory, the character set could
84# be !%./@A-Z^_a-z{}, but these tables use only upper-case
85# Ascii letters (and "___").
86# Use abbreviations that are in common use among English-speakers,
87# e.g. `EST' for Eastern Standard Time in North America.
88# We assume that applications translate them to other languages
89# as part of the normal localization process; for example,
90# a French application might translate `EST' to `HNE'.
91# For zones whose times are taken from a city's longitude, use the
92# traditional xMT notation, e.g. `PMT' for Paris Mean Time.
93# The only name like this in current use is `GMT'.
94# If there is no common English abbreviation, abbreviate the English
95# translation of the usual phrase used by native speakers.
96# If this is not available or is a phrase mentioning the country
97# (e.g. ``Cape Verde Time''), then:
98#
99# When a country has a single or principal time zone region,
100# append `T' to the country's ISO code, e.g. `CVT' for
101# Cape Verde Time. For summer time append `ST';
102# for double summer time append `DST'; etc.
103# When a country has multiple time zones, take the first three
104# letters of an English place name identifying each zone
105# and then append `T', `ST', etc. as before;
106# e.g. `MOSST' for MOScow Summer Time.
107#
108#
109# For Africa I invented the following time zone abbreviations.
110# LMT Local Mean Time
111# -1:00 AAT Atlantic Africa Time (no longer used)
112# 0:00 WAT West Africa Time
113# 1:00 CAT Central Africa Time
114# 2:00 SAT South Africa Time
115# 3:00 EAT East Africa Time
116# The final `T' is replaced by `ST' for summer time, e.g. `SAST'.
117# BEAT is British East Africa Time, which was 2:30 before 1948 and 2:45 after.
118
119
120# Algeria
121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
122Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
123Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun<=7 23:00s 0 -
124Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
125Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
126Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
127Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
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153 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26
154 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May
155 1:00 - CET
156
157# Angola
158# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
159Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
160 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time?
161 1:00 - CAT
162
163# Bassas da India
164# uninhabited
165
166# Benin
167# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks.
168# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
169Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912
170 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
171 1:00 - CAT
172
173# Botswana
174# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
175Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885
176 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
177 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
178 2:00 - SAT
179
180# Burkina Faso
181# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
182Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912
183 0:00 - WAT
184
185# Burundi
186# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
187Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890
188 2:00 - SAT
189
190# Cameroon
191# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks.
192# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
193Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912
194 1:00 - CAT
195
196# Cape Verde
197# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
198Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia
199 -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep
200 -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15
201 -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00
202 -1:00 - CVT
203
204# Central African Republic
205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
206Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912
207 1:00 - CAT
208
209# Chad
210# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
211Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912
212 1:00 - CAT 1979 Oct 14
213 1:00 1:00 CAST 1980 Mar 8
214 1:00 - CAT
215
216# Comoros
217# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
218Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
219 3:00 - EAT
220
221# Congo
222# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
223Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912
224 1:00 - CAT
225
226# Cote D'Ivoire
227# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
228Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
229 0:00 - WAT
230
231# Djibouti
232# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
233Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul
234 3:00 - EAT
235
236###############################################################################
237
238# Egypt
239
240# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
241# Egypt: DST from first day of May to first of October (ending may
242# also be on Sept 30th not 31st -- you might want to ask one of the
243# soc.* groups, you might hit someone who could ask an embassy).
244# DST since 1960 except for 1981-82.
245
246# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
247# EGYPT 2 H AHEAD OF UTC
248# EGYPT 3 H AHEAD OF UTC MAY 17 - SEP 30 (AFTER
249# EGYPT RAMADAN)
250
251# From Shanks (1991):
252# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
253Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S
254Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
255Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S
256Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
257Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
258Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 -
259Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
260Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S
261Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
262Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
263Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
264Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
265Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
266Rule Egypt 1966 1990 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
267Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S
268Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S
269Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
270Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S
271Rule Egypt 1990 only - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
272Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
273Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
274Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00 1:00 S
275Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastFri 0:00 0 -
276
277# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
278Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct
279 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
280
281# Equatorial Guinea
282# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
283Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912
284 0:00 - WAT 1963 Dec 15
285 1:00 - CAT
286
287# Eritrea
288# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
289Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870
290 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time
291 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
292 3:00 - EAT
293
294# Ethiopia
295# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
296Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
297 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
298 3:00 - EAT
299
300# Europa Island
301# uninhabited
302
303# Gabon
304# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
305Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912
306 1:00 - CAT
307
308# Gambia
309# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
310Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912
311 -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time
312 -1:00 - AAT 1964
313 0:00 - WAT
314
315# Ghana
316# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-09-03):
317# WATST is my invention for ``West Africa one-Third Summer Time''.
318# From Shanks (1991):
319# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
320# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; go with Shanks.
321Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 WATST
322Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 WAT
323# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
324Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
325 0:00 Ghana %s
326
327# Glorioso Is
328# uninhabited
329
330# Guinea
331# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
332Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912
333 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
334 1:00 - CAT 1960
335 0:00 - WAT
336
337# Guinea-Bissau
338# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
339Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26
340 1:00 - CAT 1975
341 0:00 - WAT
342
343# Juan de Nova
344# uninhabited
345
346# Kenya
347# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
348# Shanks says the transition to 2:45 was in 1940, but it must have been 1948.
349# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
350Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
351 3:00 - EAT 1930
352 2:30 - BEAT 1948
353 2:45 - BEAT 1960
354 3:00 - EAT
355
356# Lesotho
357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
358Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
359 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
360 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
361 2:00 - SAT
362
363# Liberia
364# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
365# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
366# from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes.
367# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
368# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks.
369# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman
370# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
371#
372# From Shanks (1991), as corrected by Whitman:
373# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
374Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882
375 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
376 -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time
377 0:00 - WAT
378
379###############################################################################
380
381# Libya
382
383# From Bob Devine (January 28 1988):
384# Libya: Since 1982 April 1st to September 30th (?)
385
386# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
387# LIBYAN ARAB 1 H AHEAD OF UTC JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA
388# LIBYAN ARAB 2 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 1 - SEP 30 JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA
389
390# From Shanks (1991):
391# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
392Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S
393Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
394Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
395Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
396Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S
397Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
398Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
399Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
400Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
401Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
402Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
403Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
404Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
405Rule Libya 1990 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S
406Rule Libya 1996 max - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S
407Rule Libya 1996 max - Sep 30 2:00s 0 -
408# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
409Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
410 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
411 2:00 - EET 1982
412 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1991
413 2:00 - EET 1996 Mar 30 3:00
414 1:00 Libya CE%sT
415
416# Madagascar
417# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
418Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul
419 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s
420 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s
421 3:00 - EAT
422
423# Malawi
424# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
425Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
426 2:00 - SAT
427
428# Mali
429# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
430Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912
431 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
432 -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20
433 0:00 - WAT
434# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit
435Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912
436 0:00 - WAT
437
438# Mauritania
439# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
440Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912
441 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
442 -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20
443 0:00 - WAT
444
445# Mauritius
446# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
447Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
448 4:00 - MUT # Mauritius Time
449# Agalega Is, Rodriguez
450# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
451
452# Mayotte
453# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
454Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
455 3:00 - EAT
456
457# Morocco
458# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
459Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
460Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
461Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
462Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
463Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
464Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
465Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
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473Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
474# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
475Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
476 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
477 1:00 - CET 1986
478 0:00 - WET
479# Western Sahara
480Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan
481 -1:00 - AAT 1976 Apr 14
482 0:00 - WET
483
484# Mozambique
485# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
486Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
487 2:00 - SAT
488
489# Namibia
490# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
491Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
492Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
493# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
494Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
495 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time
496 2:00 - SAT 1942 Sep 20 2:00
497 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
498 2:00 Namibia SA%sT
499
500# Niger
501# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
502Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912
503 1:00 - CAT 1934 Feb 26
504 0:00 - WAT 1960
505 1:00 - CAT
506
507# Nigeria
508# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
509Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
510 1:00 - CAT
511
512# Reunion
513# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
514Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
515 4:00 - RET # Reunion Time
516
517# Rwanda
518# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
519Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun
520 2:00 - SAT
521
522# St Helena
523# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
524Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown
525 -0:06 - SHT 1951 # St Helena Time (?)
526 0:00 - GMT
527# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
528# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, says Whitman
529# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995
530# Gough, Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT
531
532# Sao Tome and Principe
533# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
534Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884
535 -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 # Lisbon Mean Time
536 0:00 - WAT
537
538# Senegal
539# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
540Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912
541 -1:00 - AAT 1941 Jun
542 0:00 - WAT
543
544# Seychelles
545# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
546Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
547 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time
548
549# Sierra Leone
550# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
551# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks.
552Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
553Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
554Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
555Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
556# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
557Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882
558 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time
559 -1:00 SL AA%sT 1957
560 0:00 SL WA%sT
561
562# Somalia
563# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
564# Shanks omits the 1948 transition to 2:45; this is probably a typo.
565# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
566Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov
567 3:00 - EAT 1931
568 2:30 - BEAT 1948
569 2:45 - BEAT 1957 # not in Shanks
570 3:00 - EAT
571
572# South Africa
573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
574Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
575Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
576# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
577Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
578 1:30 - SAT 1903 Mar
579 2:00 SA SA%sT
580# Prince Edward Is
581# no information
582
583# Sudan
584# From Michael Ross <mross@antigone.com> (1995-11-15):
585# Sudan no longer observes any form of daylight time change.
586# I verified this today by telephone with the Sudan Mission to the
587# United Nations: 212-573-6033
588# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
589Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
590Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
591Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
592Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
593# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
594Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
595 2:00 Sudan EE%sT
596
597# Swaziland
598# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
599Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar
600 2:00 - SAT
601
602# Tanzania
603# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
604Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
605 3:00 - EAT 1948
606 2:45 - BEAT 1961
607 3:00 - EAT
608
609# Togo
610# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
611Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
612 0:00 - WAT
613
614# Tromelin
615# uninhabited
616
617# Tunisia
618# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
619Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
620Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
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644 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
645 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
646
647# Uganda
648# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
649Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul
650 3:00 - EAT 1930
651 2:30 - BEAT 1948
652 2:45 - BEAT 1957
653 3:00 - EAT
654
655# Zaire
656# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
657Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
658 1:00 - CAT
659Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
660 2:00 - SAT
661
662# Zambia
663# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
664Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar
665 2:00 - SAT
666
667# Zimbabwe
668# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
669Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar
670 2:00 - SAT