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1# @(#)africa 7.16
1# @(#)africa 7.20
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):
7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1997-10-05):
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).
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995).
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'.
30# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
31# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively,
32# but Mark R V Murray <markm@iafrica.com> reports that
33# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa,
34# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and
35# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for
36# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''.
37# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference.
38#
36# Here are the general rules I used for choosing location names,
37# in decreasing order of importance:
39# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago;
40# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00,
41# and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00.
42# This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African
43# mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara.
44#
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'.
45# To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency:
46# -1:00 WAT West Africa Time (no longer used)
47# 0:00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time
48# 2:00 CAT Central Africa Time
49# 2:00 SAST South Africa Standard Time
50# and Murray suggests the following abbreviation:
51# 1:00 WAT West Africa Time
52# I realize that this leads to `WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00
53# for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of
54# until we get more information.
55#
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
56# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome!
57# 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time
58# 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used)
59# 2:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used)
60# 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
61# 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
62# 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.
63# 4:00 EAST East Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
64
119
65# Algeria
66# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
67Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
68Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun<=7 23:00s 0 -
69Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
70Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
71Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
72Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S

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98 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26
99 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May
100 1:00 - CET
101
102# Angola
103# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
104Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
105 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time?
161 1:00 - CAT
106 1:00 - WAT
107
108# Bassas da India
109# uninhabited
110
111# Benin
112# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks.
113# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
114Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912
170 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
171 1:00 - CAT
115 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
116 1:00 - WAT
117
118# Botswana
119# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
120Zone 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
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
183 0:00 - WAT
128 0:00 - GMT
129
130# Burundi
131# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
132Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890
188 2:00 - SAT
133 2:00 - CAT
134
135# Cameroon
136# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks.
137# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
138Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912
194 1:00 - CAT
139 1:00 - WAT
140
141# Cape Verde
142# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
143Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia
144 -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep
145 -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15
146 -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00
147 -1:00 - CVT
148
149# Central African Republic
150# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
151Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912
207 1:00 - CAT
152 1:00 - WAT
153
154# Chad
155# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
156Zone 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
157 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14
158 1:00 1:00 WAST 1980 Mar 8
159 1:00 - WAT
160
161# Comoros
162# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
163Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
164 3:00 - EAT
165
221# Congo
166# Democratic Republic of Congo
167# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
168Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
169 1:00 - WAT
170Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
171 2:00 - CAT
172
173# Republic of the Congo
174# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
175Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912
224 1:00 - CAT
176 1:00 - WAT
177
178# Cote D'Ivoire
179# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
180Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
229 0:00 - WAT
181 0:00 - GMT
182
183# Djibouti
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
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):
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 -
200Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S
201Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
202Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
203Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
204Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
205Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
266Rule Egypt 1966 1990 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
206Rule Egypt 1966 1994 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
207Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S
208Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S
209Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
210Rule 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 -
211Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
212# IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00; go with Shanks.
213Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 1:00 1:00 S
214Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastFri 3:00 0 -
215
216# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
217Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct
218 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
219
220# Equatorial Guinea
221# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
222Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912
284 0:00 - WAT 1963 Dec 15
285 1:00 - CAT
223 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15
224 1:00 - WAT
225
226# Eritrea
227# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
228Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870
229 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time
291 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
230 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
231 3:00 - EAT
232
233# Ethiopia
234# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05):
235# Shanks writes that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones between
236# 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890.
237# We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera.
238# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
239Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
297 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT?
240 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
241 3:00 - EAT
242
243# Europa Island
244# uninhabited
245
246# Gabon
247# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
248Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912
306 1:00 - CAT
249 1:00 - WAT
250
251# Gambia
252# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
253Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912
254 -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time
312 -1:00 - AAT 1964
313 0:00 - WAT
255 -1:00 - WAT 1964
256 0:00 - GMT
257
258# 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):
259# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
260# 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
261Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST
262Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT
263# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
264Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
265 0:00 Ghana %s
266
267# Glorioso Is
268# uninhabited
269
270# Guinea
271# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
272Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912
333 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
334 1:00 - CAT 1960
335 0:00 - WAT
273 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
274 -1:00 - WAT 1960
275 0:00 - GMT
276
277# Guinea-Bissau
278# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
279Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26
340 1:00 - CAT 1975
341 0:00 - WAT
280 -1:00 - WAT 1975
281 0:00 - GMT
282
283# Juan de Nova
284# uninhabited
285
286# 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.
287# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
288Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
289 3:00 - EAT 1930
352 2:30 - BEAT 1948
353 2:45 - BEAT 1960
290 2:30 - BEAT 1940
291 2:45 - BEAUT 1960
292 3:00 - EAT
293
294# Lesotho
295# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
296Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
359 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
297 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00
298 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
361 2:00 - SAT
299 2:00 - SAST
300
301# Liberia
302# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
303# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
304# from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes.
305# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
306# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks.
307# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman
308# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
309#
372# From Shanks (1991), as corrected by Whitman:
310# From Shanks, as corrected by Whitman:
311# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
312Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882
313 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
314 -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time
377 0:00 - WAT
315 0:00 - GMT
316
317###############################################################################
318
319# Libya
320
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):
321# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
322Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S
323Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
324Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
325Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
326Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S
327Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
328Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
329Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
330Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
331Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
332Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
333Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
334Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
335Rule 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 -
336Rule Libya 1996 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S
337Rule Libya 1996 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 -
338Rule Libya 1997 max - Mar lastThu 2:00s 1:00 S
339Rule Libya 1997 max - Oct Thu>=1 2:00s 0 -
340# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
341Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
342 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
343 2:00 - EET 1982
344 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1991
345 2:00 - EET 1996 Mar 30 3:00
346 1:00 Libya CE%sT
347
348# Madagascar
349# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
350Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul
351 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s
352 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s
353 3:00 - EAT
354
355# Malawi
356# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
357Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
426 2:00 - SAT
358 2:00 - CAT
359
360# Mali
361# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
362Zone 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
363 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
364 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20
365 0:00 - GMT
366# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit
367Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912
436 0:00 - WAT
368 0:00 - GMT
369
370# Mauritania
371# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
372Zone 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
373 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
374 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28
375 0:00 - GMT
376
377# Mauritius
378# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
379Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
380 4:00 - MUT # Mauritius Time
381# Agalega Is, Rodriguez
382# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
383
384# Mayotte
385# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
386Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
387 3:00 - EAT
388
389# Morocco
390# See the `europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
391# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
392Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
393Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
394Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
395Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
396Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
397Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
398Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S

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406Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
407# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
408Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
409 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
410 1:00 - CET 1986
411 0:00 - WET
412# Western Sahara
413Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan
481 -1:00 - AAT 1976 Apr 14
414 -1:00 - WAT 1976 Apr 14
415 0:00 - WET
416
417# Mozambique
418# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
419Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
487 2:00 - SAT
420 2:00 - CAT
421
422# Namibia
423# Shanks says DST transitions are at 0:00; go with IATA.
424# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks.
425# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
426Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
427Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
428# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
429Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
430 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time
496 2:00 - SAT 1942 Sep 20 2:00
431 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00
432 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
498 2:00 Namibia SA%sT
433 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence
434 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3
435 1:00 Namibia WA%sT
436
437# Niger
438# 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
439Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912
440 -1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
441 0:00 - GMT 1960
442 1:00 - WAT
443
444# Nigeria
445# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
446Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
510 1:00 - CAT
447 1:00 - WAT
448
449# Reunion
450# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
451Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
452 4:00 - RET # Reunion Time
453
454# Rwanda
455# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
456Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun
520 2:00 - SAT
457 2:00 - CAT
458
459# St Helena
460# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05):
461# Shanks says St Helena was 1W26 (-0:05:44) from 1890 to 1951,
462# but this is most likely a typo for 5W42, the longitude of Jamestown.
463# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
464Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown
525 -0:06 - SHT 1951 # St Helena Time (?)
465 -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time
466 0:00 - GMT
467# 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
468# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
469# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995 and the CIA
470# Gough (scientific station since 1955): on GMT, says the CIA
471# Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT
472
473# Sao Tome and Principe
474# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
475Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884
476 -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 # Lisbon Mean Time
536 0:00 - WAT
477 0:00 - GMT
478
479# Senegal
480# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
481Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912
541 -1:00 - AAT 1941 Jun
542 0:00 - WAT
482 -1:00 - WAT 1941 Jun
483 0:00 - GMT
484
485# Seychelles
486# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
487Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
488 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time
489
490# Sierra Leone
491# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
492# 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 -
493Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 SLST
494Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 WAT
495Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 SLST
496Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 GMT
497# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
498Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882
499 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time
559 -1:00 SL AA%sT 1957
560 0:00 SL WA%sT
500 -1:00 SL %s 1957
501 0:00 SL %s
502
503# 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.
504# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
505Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov
506 3:00 - EAT 1931
568 2:30 - BEAT 1948
569 2:45 - BEAT 1957 # not in Shanks
507 2:30 - BEAT 1957
508 3:00 - EAT
509
510# South Africa
511# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
574Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
512Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 -
513Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
514# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
515Zone 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
516 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar
517 2:00 SA SAST
518# Shanks erroneously claims that most of South Africa switched to 1:00
519# on 1994-04-03 at 00:00.
520#
521# Marion and Prince Edward Is
522# weather station since 1947
523# no information
524
525# Sudan
526# From Michael Ross <mross@antigone.com> (1995-11-15):
527# Sudan no longer observes any form of daylight time change.
528# I verified this today by telephone with the Sudan Mission to the
529# United Nations: 212-573-6033
530# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
531Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
532Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
533Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
534Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
535# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
536Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
595 2:00 Sudan EE%sT
537 2:00 Sudan CA%sT
538
539# Swaziland
540# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
541Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar
600 2:00 - SAT
542 2:00 - SAST
543
544# Tanzania
545# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
546Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
547 3:00 - EAT 1948
606 2:45 - BEAT 1961
548 2:45 - BEAUT 1961
549 3:00 - EAT
550
551# Togo
552# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
553Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
612 0:00 - WAT
554 0:00 - GMT
555
556# Tromelin
557# uninhabited
558
559# Tunisia
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 -

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586 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
587 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
588
589# Uganda
590# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
591Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul
592 3:00 - EAT 1930
593 2:30 - BEAT 1948
652 2:45 - BEAT 1957
594 2:45 - BEAUT 1957
595 3:00 - EAT
596
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
597# Zambia
598# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
599Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar
665 2:00 - SAT
600 2:00 - CAT
601
602# Zimbabwe
603# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
604Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar
670 2:00 - SAT
605 2:00 - CAT