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1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 6# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 7# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 8 | 1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 6# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 7# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 8 |
9# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-20): | 9# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): |
10# 11# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 12# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 14# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 15# | 10# 11# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 12# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 14# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 15# |
16# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 17# for time zone data was the International Air Transport | 16# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 17# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport |
18# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 19# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 20# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 21# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 22# 23# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 24# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 25# I found in the UCLA library. 26# 27# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 28# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. | 18# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 19# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 20# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 21# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 22# 23# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 24# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 25# I found in the UCLA library. 26# 27# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 28# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. |
29# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 | 29# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 |
30# 31# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 32# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 33# | 30# 31# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 32# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 33# |
34# European-style abbreviations are commonly used along the Mediterranean. 35# For sub-Saharan Africa abbreviations were less standardized. | |
36# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT | 34# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT |
37# for UT +00 through +03, respectively, 38# but in 1997 Mark R V Murray reported that 39# 'SAST' is the official abbreviation for +02 in the country of South Africa, 40# 'CAT' is commonly used for +02 in countries north of South Africa, and 41# 'WAT' is probably the best name for +01, as the common phrase for | 35# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, 36# but Mark R V Murray reports that 37# 'SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, 38# 'CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and 39# 'WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for |
42# the area that includes Nigeria is "West Africa". | 40# the area that includes Nigeria is "West Africa". |
41# He has heard of "Western Sahara Time" for +0:00 but can find no reference. |
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43# | 42# |
44# To summarize, the following abbreviations seemed to have some currency: 45# +00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time 46# +02 CAT Central Africa Time 47# +02 SAST South Africa Standard Time 48# and Murray suggested the following abbreviation: 49# +01 WAT West Africa Time 50# Murray's suggestion seems to have caught on in news reports and the like. 51# I vaguely recall 'WAT' also being used for -01 in the past but 52# cannot now come up with solid citations. | 43# To make things confusing, 'WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago; 44# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00, 45# and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00. 46# This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African 47# mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara. |
53# | 48# |
49# To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency: 50# -1:00 WAT West Africa Time (no longer used) 51# 0:00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time 52# 2:00 CAT Central Africa Time 53# 2:00 SAST South Africa Standard Time 54# and Murray suggests the following abbreviation: 55# 1:00 WAT West Africa Time 56# I realize that this leads to 'WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00 57# for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of 58# until we get more information. 59# |
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54# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome! | 60# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome! |
55# +02 WAST West Africa Summer Time 56# +03 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used) 57# +03 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used) 58# +03 EAT East Africa Time 59# 'EAT' also seems to have caught on; the others are rare but are paired 60# with better-attested non-DST abbreviations. | 61# 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time 62# 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used) 63# 2:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used) 64# 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used) 65# 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used) 66# 3:00 EAT East Africa Time |
61 62# Algeria 63# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 64Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S 65Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - 66Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S 67Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S 68Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S --- 39 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 108# See Africa/Abidjan. 109 110# Burundi 111# See Africa/Maputo. 112 113# Cameroon 114# See Africa/Lagos. 115 | 67 68# Algeria 69# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 70Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S 71Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - 72Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S 73Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S 74Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S --- 39 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 114# See Africa/Abidjan. 115 116# Burundi 117# See Africa/Maputo. 118 119# Cameroon 120# See Africa/Lagos. 121 |
116# Cape Verde / Cabo Verde | 122# Cape Verde |
117# | 123# |
118# Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to +02. | 124# Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to CVT. |
119# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree | 125# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree |
120# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf | 126# http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf |
121# merely made it official? 122# 123# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 124Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia | 127# merely made it official? 128# 129# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 130Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia |
125 -2:00 - -02 1942 Sep 126 -2:00 1:00 -01 1945 Oct 15 127 -2:00 - -02 1975 Nov 25 2:00 128 -1:00 - -01 | 131 -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep 132 -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15 133 -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00 134 -1:00 - CVT |
129 130# Central African Republic 131# See Africa/Lagos. 132 133# Chad 134# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 135Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena 136 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14 --- 76 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 213# after observing the daylight saving time since May. 214# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf 215Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 24:00 0 - 216# From Dirk Losch (2007-08-14): 217# I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight 218# saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07. 219# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2007-08-15): [The following agree:] 220# http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm | 135 136# Central African Republic 137# See Africa/Lagos. 138 139# Chad 140# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 141Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena 142 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14 --- 76 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 219# after observing the daylight saving time since May. 220# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf 221Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 24:00 0 - 222# From Dirk Losch (2007-08-14): 223# I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight 224# saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07. 225# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2007-08-15): [The following agree:] 226# http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm |
221# https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53 | 227# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53 |
222# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-04): The official information...: 223# http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm 224Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - 225# From Abdelrahman Hassan (2007-09-06): 226# Due to the Hijri (lunar Islamic calendar) year being 11 days shorter 227# than the year of the Gregorian calendar, Ramadan shifts earlier each 228# year. This year it will be observed September 13 (September is quite 229# hot in Egypt), and the idea is to make fasting easier for workers by --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 251# 252# > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59= 253# :59) 254# > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/ 255# 256# timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that. 257# 258# [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263 | 228# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-04): The official information...: 229# http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm 230Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - 231# From Abdelrahman Hassan (2007-09-06): 232# Due to the Hijri (lunar Islamic calendar) year being 11 days shorter 233# than the year of the Gregorian calendar, Ramadan shifts earlier each 234# year. This year it will be observed September 13 (September is quite 235# hot in Egypt), and the idea is to make fasting easier for workers by --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 257# 258# > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59= 259# :59) 260# > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/ 261# 262# timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that. 263# 264# [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263 |
259# [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53 260# [3] https://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/ | 265# [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53 266# [3] http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/ |
261 262# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20): 263# In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth 264# Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday 265# in September. 266 267# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-11): 268# We have been able to confirm the August change with the Egyptian Cabinet 269# Information and Decision Support Center: | 267 268# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20): 269# In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth 270# Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday 271# in September. 272 273# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-11): 274# We have been able to confirm the August change with the Egyptian Cabinet 275# Information and Decision Support Center: |
270# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html | 276# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html |
271# 272# The Middle East News Agency | 277# 278# The Middle East News Agency |
273# https://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx | 279# http://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx |
274# also reports "Egypt starts winter time on August 21" 275# today in article numbered "71, 11/08/2009 12:25 GMT." 276# Only the title above is available without a subscription to their service, 277# and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine 278# (at least today). 279 280# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20): 281# According to News from Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has --- 33 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 315# http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833 316 317# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08): 318# Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015. 319# This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last 320# Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but 321# dates not yet announced.... 322# http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ... | 280# also reports "Egypt starts winter time on August 21" 281# today in article numbered "71, 11/08/2009 12:25 GMT." 282# Only the title above is available without a subscription to their service, 283# and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine 284# (at least today). 285 286# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20): 287# According to News from Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has --- 33 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 321# http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833 322 323# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08): 324# Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015. 325# This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last 326# Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but 327# dates not yet announced.... 328# http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ... |
323# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html | 329# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html |
324 325# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20): 326# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at 327# least for 2015. 328# 329# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20): 330# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx 331# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving --- 45 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 377# and September 1 to January 1 is given by: 378# Scott Keltie J, Epstein M (eds), The Statesman's Year-Book, 379# 57th ed. Macmillan, London (1920), OCLC 609408015, pp xxviii. 380# For lack of better info, assume DST was observed from 1920 to 1942. 381Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST 382Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT 383# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 384Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 | 330 331# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20): 332# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at 333# least for 2015. 334# 335# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20): 336# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx 337# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving --- 45 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 383# and September 1 to January 1 is given by: 384# Scott Keltie J, Epstein M (eds), The Statesman's Year-Book, 385# 57th ed. Macmillan, London (1920), OCLC 609408015, pp xxviii. 386# For lack of better info, assume DST was observed from 1920 to 1942. 387Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST 388Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT 389# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 390Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 |
385 0:00 Ghana GMT/+0020 | 391 0:00 Ghana %s |
386 387# Guinea 388# See Africa/Abidjan. 389 390# Guinea-Bissau 391# 392# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, 393# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree | 392 393# Guinea 394# See Africa/Abidjan. 395 396# Guinea-Bissau 397# 398# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT, 399# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree |
394# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf | 400# http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf |
395# with the date that it took effect, namely 1912-01-01. 396# 397# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 398Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 | 401# with the date that it took effect, namely 1912-01-01. 402# 403# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 404Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 |
399 -1:00 - -01 1975 | 405 -1:00 - WAT 1975 |
400 0:00 - GMT 401 402# Kenya 403# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 404Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul 405 3:00 - EAT 1930 | 406 0:00 - GMT 407 408# Kenya 409# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 410Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul 411 3:00 - EAT 1930 |
406 2:30 - +0230 1940 407 2:45 - +0245 1960 | 412 2:30 - BEAT 1940 413 2:45 - BEAUT 1960 |
408 3:00 - EAT 409Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia 410Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea 411Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania 412Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti 413Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda 414Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia 415Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar 416Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro 417Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte 418 419# Lesotho 420# See Africa/Johannesburg. 421 422# Liberia | 414 3:00 - EAT 415Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia 416Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea 417Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania 418Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti 419Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda 420Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia 421Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar 422Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro 423Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte 424 425# Lesotho 426# See Africa/Johannesburg. 427 428# Liberia |
423# 424# From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02): 425# 426# The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30. 427# 428# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UTC offset 429# that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. The 1972 change was on 430# 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of: 431# Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of 432# President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. 433# Monrovia: Executive Mansion. 434# 435# Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric 436# abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit. 437# | 429# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 430# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch 431# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. 432# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. 433# Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; 434# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 435# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and 436# Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. |
438# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 439Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 440 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time | 437# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 438Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 439 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time |
441 -0:44:30 - MMT 1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT | 440 -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time |
442 0:00 - GMT 443 444############################################################################### 445 446# Libya 447 448# From Even Scharning (2012-11-10): 449# Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10. | 441 0:00 - GMT 442 443############################################################################### 444 445# Libya 446 447# From Even Scharning (2012-11-10): 448# Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10. |
450# https://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/ | 449# http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/ |
451# Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc 452# 453# Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in | 450# Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc 451# 452# Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in |
454# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html | 453# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html |
455# 456# From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11): 457# Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1. 458# The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe 459# (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on 460# lastFri instead of lastSun). 461 462# From Even Scharning (2013-10-25): 463# The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was 464# cancelled yesterday.... | 454# 455# From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11): 456# Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1. 457# The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe 458# (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on 459# lastFri instead of lastSun). 460 461# From Even Scharning (2013-10-25): 462# The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was 463# cancelled yesterday.... |
465# https://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/ | 464# http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/ |
466# 467# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25): 468# For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UT +02. 469 470# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 471Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S 472Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - 473Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S --- 36 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 510 511# Mauritius 512 513# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25): 514# Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial 515# basis.... 516# It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to 517# 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... | 465# 466# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25): 467# For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UT +02. 468 469# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 470Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S 471Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - 472Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S --- 36 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 509 510# Mauritius 511 512# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25): 513# Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial 514# basis.... 515# It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to 516# 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful.... |
518# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html | 517# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html |
519 520# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): 521# http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD 522 523# From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): 524# The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A 525# final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving 526# would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. --- 51 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 578# According to several sources, Mauritius will not continue to observe 579# DST the coming summer... 580# 581# Some sources, in French: 582# http://www.defimedia.info/news/946/Rashid-Beebeejaun-:-%C2%AB-L%E2%80%99heure-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ne-sera-pas-appliqu%C3%A9e-cette-ann%C3%A9e-%C2%BB 583# http://lexpress.mu/Story/3398~Beebeejaun---Les-objectifs-d-%C3%A9conomie-d-%C3%A9nergie-de-l-heure-d-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ont-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-atteints- 584# 585# Our wrap-up: | 518 519# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25): 520# http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD 521 522# From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30): 523# The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A 524# final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving 525# would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight. --- 51 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 577# According to several sources, Mauritius will not continue to observe 578# DST the coming summer... 579# 580# Some sources, in French: 581# http://www.defimedia.info/news/946/Rashid-Beebeejaun-:-%C2%AB-L%E2%80%99heure-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ne-sera-pas-appliqu%C3%A9e-cette-ann%C3%A9e-%C2%BB 582# http://lexpress.mu/Story/3398~Beebeejaun---Les-objectifs-d-%C3%A9conomie-d-%C3%A9nergie-de-l-heure-d-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-ont-%C3%A9t%C3%A9-atteints- 583# 584# Our wrap-up: |
586# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat.html | 585# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat.html |
587 588# From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11): 589# The "mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat" wrapup includes this: 590# "The trial ended on March 29, 2009, when the clocks moved back by one hour 591# at 2am (or 02:00) local time..." 592 593# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 594Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S 595Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - 596Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 597Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 598# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 599Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis | 586 587# From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11): 588# The "mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat" wrapup includes this: 589# "The trial ended on March 29, 2009, when the clocks moved back by one hour 590# at 2am (or 02:00) local time..." 591 592# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 593Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S 594Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - 595Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 596Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 597# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 598Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis |
600 4:00 Mauritius +04/+05 | 599 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time |
601# Agalega Is, Rodriguez 602# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius 603 604# Mayotte 605# See Africa/Nairobi. 606 607# Morocco 608# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta). 609 610# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): 611# Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between 612# 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008. 613# 614# "... Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will 615# be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to 616# Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Khalid Naciri...." 617# | 600# Agalega Is, Rodriguez 601# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius 602 603# Mayotte 604# See Africa/Nairobi. 605 606# Morocco 607# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta). 608 609# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): 610# Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between 611# 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008. 612# 613# "... Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will 614# be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to 615# Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Khalid Naciri...." 616# |
618# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco01.html | 617# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_morocco01.html |
619# http://en.afrik.com/news11892.html 620 621# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): 622# The Morocco time change can be confirmed on Morocco web site Maghreb Arabe 623# Presse: 624# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box3/morocco_shifts_to_da/view 625# 626# Morocco shifts to daylight time on June 1st through September 27, Govt. 627# spokesman. 628 629# From Patrice Scattolin (2008-05-09): 630# According to this article: | 618# http://en.afrik.com/news11892.html 619 620# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): 621# The Morocco time change can be confirmed on Morocco web site Maghreb Arabe 622# Presse: 623# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box3/morocco_shifts_to_da/view 624# 625# Morocco shifts to daylight time on June 1st through September 27, Govt. 626# spokesman. 627 628# From Patrice Scattolin (2008-05-09): 629# According to this article: |
631# https://www.avmaroc.com/actualite/heure-dete-comment-a127896.html | 630# http://www.avmaroc.com/actualite/heure-dete-comment-a127896.html |
632# (and republished here: <http://www.actu.ma/heure-dete-comment_i127896_0.html>) 633# the changes occur at midnight: 634# 635# Saturday night May 31st at midnight (which in French is to be 636# interpreted as the night between Saturday and Sunday) 637# Sunday night the 28th at midnight 638# 639# Seeing that the 28th is Monday, I am guessing that she intends to say --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 645# published on the web. 646# 647# It's also confirmed here: 648# http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm 649# on a government portal as being between June 1st and Sept 27th (not yet 650# posted in English). 651# 652# The following Google query will generate many relevant hits: | 631# (and republished here: <http://www.actu.ma/heure-dete-comment_i127896_0.html>) 632# the changes occur at midnight: 633# 634# Saturday night May 31st at midnight (which in French is to be 635# interpreted as the night between Saturday and Sunday) 636# Sunday night the 28th at midnight 637# 638# Seeing that the 28th is Monday, I am guessing that she intends to say --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 644# published on the web. 645# 646# It's also confirmed here: 647# http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm 648# on a government portal as being between June 1st and Sept 27th (not yet 649# posted in English). 650# 651# The following Google query will generate many relevant hits: |
653# https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conseil+de+gouvernement+maroc+heure+avance&btnG=Search | 652# http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conseil+de+gouvernement+maroc+heure+avance&btnG=Search |
654 655# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-27): 656# Morocco will change the clocks back on the midnight between August 31 657# and September 1. They originally planned to observe DST to near the end 658# of September: 659# 660# One article about it (in French): 661# http://www.menara.ma/fr/Actualites/Maroc/Societe/ci.retour_a_l_heure_gmt_a_partir_du_dimanche_31_aout_a_minuit_officiel_.default 662# 663# We have some further details posted here: | 653 654# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-27): 655# Morocco will change the clocks back on the midnight between August 31 656# and September 1. They originally planned to observe DST to near the end 657# of September: 658# 659# One article about it (in French): 660# http://www.menara.ma/fr/Actualites/Maroc/Societe/ci.retour_a_l_heure_gmt_a_partir_du_dimanche_31_aout_a_minuit_officiel_.default 661# 662# We have some further details posted here: |
664# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-early-2008.html | 663# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-early-2008.html |
665 666# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-17): 667# Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 00:00 to 2009-08-21 00:00 according 668# to many sources, such as 669# http://news.marweb.com/morocco/entertainment/morocco-daylight-saving.html 670# http://www.medi1sat.ma/fr/depeche.aspx?idp=2312 671# (French) 672# 673# Our summary: | 664 665# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-17): 666# Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 00:00 to 2009-08-21 00:00 according 667# to many sources, such as 668# http://news.marweb.com/morocco/entertainment/morocco-daylight-saving.html 669# http://www.medi1sat.ma/fr/depeche.aspx?idp=2312 670# (French) 671# 672# Our summary: |
674# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2009.html | 673# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2009.html |
675 676# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): 677# Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre, 678# Minist��re de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics 679# 680# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967) 681# concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of 682# Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 689# Several news media in Morocco report that the Ministry of Modernization 690# of Public Sectors has announced that Morocco will have DST from 691# 2010-05-02 to 2010-08-08. 692# 693# Example: 694# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualites/4099-le-maroc-passera-a-l-heure-d-ete-gmt1-le-2-mai.html 695# (French) 696# Our page: | 674 675# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): 676# Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre, 677# Minist��re de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics 678# 679# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967) 680# concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of 681# Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 688# Several news media in Morocco report that the Ministry of Modernization 689# of Public Sectors has announced that Morocco will have DST from 690# 2010-05-02 to 2010-08-08. 691# 692# Example: 693# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualites/4099-le-maroc-passera-a-l-heure-d-ete-gmt1-le-2-mai.html 694# (French) 695# Our page: |
697# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2010.html | 696# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2010.html |
698 699# From Dan Abitol (2011-03-30): 700# ...Rules for Africa/Casablanca are the following (24h format) 701# The 3rd April 2011 at 00:00:00, [it] will be 3rd April 01:00:00 702# The 31st July 2011 at 00:59:59, [it] will be 31st July 00:00:00 703# ...Official links of change in morocco 704# The change was broadcast on the FM Radio 705# I ve called ANRT (telecom regulations in Morocco) at 706# +212.537.71.84.00 707# http://www.anrt.net.ma/fr/ 708# They said that 709# http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view 710# is the official publication to look at. 711# They said that the decision was already taken. 712# 713# More articles in the press | 697 698# From Dan Abitol (2011-03-30): 699# ...Rules for Africa/Casablanca are the following (24h format) 700# The 3rd April 2011 at 00:00:00, [it] will be 3rd April 01:00:00 701# The 31st July 2011 at 00:59:59, [it] will be 31st July 00:00:00 702# ...Official links of change in morocco 703# The change was broadcast on the FM Radio 704# I ve called ANRT (telecom regulations in Morocco) at 705# +212.537.71.84.00 706# http://www.anrt.net.ma/fr/ 707# They said that 708# http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view 709# is the official publication to look at. 710# They said that the decision was already taken. 711# 712# More articles in the press |
714# https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/5058/secret-l-heure-d-ete-maroc-leve.html | 713# http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/5058/secret-l-heure-d-ete-maroc-leve.html |
715# http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Express/Article.asp?id=148923 716# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualite/Le-Maroc-passe-sur-GMT%2B1-a-partir-de-dim 717 718# From Petr Machata (2011-03-30): 719# They have it written in English here: 720# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/home/morocco_to_spring_fo/view 721# 722# It says there that "Morocco will resume its standard time on July 31, --- 75 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 798# From Milamber (2015-06-08): 799# (Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes 800# Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding 801# that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19, 802# 2015 at 2:00. The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I 803# 1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of 804# 16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015). 805# Source (french): | 714# http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Express/Article.asp?id=148923 715# http://www.lavieeco.com/actualite/Le-Maroc-passe-sur-GMT%2B1-a-partir-de-dim 716 717# From Petr Machata (2011-03-30): 718# They have it written in English here: 719# http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/home/morocco_to_spring_fo/view 720# 721# It says there that "Morocco will resume its standard time on July 31, --- 75 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 797# From Milamber (2015-06-08): 798# (Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes 799# Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding 800# that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19, 801# 2015 at 2:00. The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I 802# 1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of 803# 16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015). 804# Source (french): |
806# https://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/ | 805# http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/ |
807# 808# From Milamber (2015-06-09): 809# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863 810# 811# From Michael Deckers (2015-06-09): 812# [The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go 813# from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch.... 814# I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in | 806# 807# From Milamber (2015-06-09): 808# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863 809# 810# From Michael Deckers (2015-06-09): 811# [The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go 812# from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch.... 813# I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in |
815# <https://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees | 814# |
816# with the patch. 817 818# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08): 819# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules, 820# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last 821# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after 822# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were 823# determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the --- 87 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 911# ... says that Western Sahara observes daylight saving time, just as 912# Morocco does. 913# 914# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-23): 915# Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT, 916# since most of it was then controlled by Morocco. 917 918Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aai��n | 815# with the patch. 816 817# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08): 818# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules, 819# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last 820# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after 821# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were 822# determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the --- 87 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 910# ... says that Western Sahara observes daylight saving time, just as 911# Morocco does. 912# 913# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-23): 914# Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT, 915# since most of it was then controlled by Morocco. 916 917Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aai��n |
919 -1:00 - -01 1976 Apr 14 | 918 -1:00 - WAT 1976 Apr 14 |
920 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 921 922# Mozambique 923# 924# Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT. 925# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree | 919 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 920 921# Mozambique 922# 923# Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT. 924# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree |
926# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf | 925# http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf |
927# merely made it official? 928# 929# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 930Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar 931 2:00 - CAT 932Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Blantyre # Malawi 933Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Bujumbura # Burundi 934Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Gaborone # Botswana 935Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Harare # Zimbabwe 936Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Kigali # Rwanda 937Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo 938Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lusaka # Zambia 939 | 926# merely made it official? 927# 928# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 929Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar 930 2:00 - CAT 931Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Blantyre # Malawi 932Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Bujumbura # Burundi 933Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Gaborone # Botswana 934Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Harare # Zimbabwe 935Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Kigali # Rwanda 936Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo 937Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lusaka # Zambia 938 |
940 | |
941# Namibia | 939# Namibia |
940# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger. 941# Shanks & Pottenger report no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. |
|
942 | 942 |
943# From Arthur David Olson (2017-08-09): 944# The text of the "Namibia Time Act, 1994" is available online at 945# www.lac.org.na/laws/1994/811.pdf 946# and includes this nugget: 947# Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of section 1, the 948# first winter period after the commencement of this Act shall 949# commence at OOhOO on Monday 21 March 1994 and shall end at 02h00 on 950# Sunday 4 September 1994. 951 | |
952# From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30): 953# http://allafrica.com/stories/200703300178.html 954# While the entire country changes its time, Katima Mulilo and other 955# settlements in Caprivi unofficially will not because the sun there 956# rises and sets earlier compared to other regions. Chief of 957# Forecasting Riaan van Zyl explained that the far eastern parts of 958# the country are close to 40 minutes earlier in sunrise than the rest 959# of the country. 960# | 943# From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30): 944# http://allafrica.com/stories/200703300178.html 945# While the entire country changes its time, Katima Mulilo and other 946# settlements in Caprivi unofficially will not because the sun there 947# rises and sets earlier compared to other regions. Chief of 948# Forecasting Riaan van Zyl explained that the far eastern parts of 949# the country are close to 40 minutes earlier in sunrise than the rest 950# of the country. 951# |
961# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22): 962# Although the Zambezi Region (formerly known as Caprivi) informally 963# observes Botswana time, we have no details about historical practice. 964# In the meantime people there can use Africa/Gaborone. 965# See: Immanuel S. The Namibian. 2017-02-23. 966# https://www.namibian.com.na/51480/read/Time-change-divides-lawmakers | 952# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-31): 953# Apparently the Caprivi Strip informally observes Botswana time, but 954# we have no details. In the meantime people there can use Africa/Gaborone. |
967 | 955 |
968# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-08-09): 969# Namibia is going to change their time zone to what is now their DST: 970# https://www.newera.com.na/2017/02/23/namibias-winter-time-might-be-repealed/ 971# This video is from the government decision: 972# https://www.nbc.na/news/na-passes-namibia-time-bill-repealing-1994-namibia-time-act.8665 973# We have made the assumption so far that they will change their time zone at 974# the same time they would normally start DST, the first Sunday in September: 975# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/namibia-new-time-zone.html 976 | |
977# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 956# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
978Rule Namibia 1994 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - 979Rule Namibia 1994 2016 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 980Rule Namibia 1995 2017 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - | 957Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 958Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - |
981# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 982Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 | 959# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 960Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 |
983 1:30 - +0130 1903 Mar | 961 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time |
984 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00 985 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00 986 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence | 962 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00 963 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00 964 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence |
987 2:00 - CAT 1994 Mar 21 0:00 988 1:00 Namibia WA%sT 2017 Sep 3 2:00 989 2:00 - CAT | 965 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3 966 1:00 Namibia WA%sT |
990 991# Niger 992# See Africa/Lagos. 993 994# Nigeria 995# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 996Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep 997 1:00 - WAT --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1003Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola 1004Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea 1005Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey # Niger 1006Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo # Benin 1007 1008# R��union 1009# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1010Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis | 967 968# Niger 969# See Africa/Lagos. 970 971# Nigeria 972# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 973Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep 974 1:00 - WAT --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 980Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola 981Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea 982Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey # Niger 983Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo # Benin 984 985# R��union 986# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 987Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis |
1011 4:00 - +04 | 988 4:00 - RET # R��union Time |
1012# 1013# Crozet Islands also observes R��union time; see the 'antarctica' file. 1014# 1015# Scattered Islands (��les ��parses) administered from R��union are as follows. 1016# The following information about them is taken from 1017# ��les ��parses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22, 1018# in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17). 1019# We have no info about their time zone histories. --- 18 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1038 1039# S��o Tom�� and Pr��ncipe 1040# Senegal 1041# See Africa/Abidjan. 1042 1043# Seychelles 1044# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1045Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria | 989# 990# Crozet Islands also observes R��union time; see the 'antarctica' file. 991# 992# Scattered Islands (��les ��parses) administered from R��union are as follows. 993# The following information about them is taken from 994# ��les ��parses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22, 995# in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17). 996# We have no info about their time zone histories. --- 18 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1015 1016# S��o Tom�� and Pr��ncipe 1017# Senegal 1018# See Africa/Abidjan. 1019 1020# Seychelles 1021# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1022Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria |
1046 4:00 - +04 | 1023 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time |
1047# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 1048# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the 1049# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory 1050# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know 1051# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. 1052# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. 1053 1054# Sierra Leone --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1068Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru # Lesotho 1069Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane # Swaziland 1070# 1071# Marion and Prince Edward Is 1072# scientific station since 1947 1073# no information 1074 1075# Sudan | 1024# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 1025# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the 1026# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory 1027# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know 1028# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. 1029# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. 1030 1031# Sierra Leone --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1045Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru # Lesotho 1046Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane # Swaziland 1047# 1048# Marion and Prince Edward Is 1049# scientific station since 1947 1050# no information 1051 1052# Sudan |
1076 | 1053# |
1077# From <http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html> 1078# Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13), 1079# also reported by Micha��l De Beukelaer-Dossche via Steffen Thorsen: 1080# Clocks will be moved ahead for 60 minutes all over the Sudan as of noon 1081# Saturday.... This was announced Thursday by Caretaker State Minister for 1082# Manpower Abdul-Rahman Nur-Eddin. | 1054# From <http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html> 1055# Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13), 1056# also reported by Micha��l De Beukelaer-Dossche via Steffen Thorsen: 1057# Clocks will be moved ahead for 60 minutes all over the Sudan as of noon 1058# Saturday.... This was announced Thursday by Caretaker State Minister for 1059# Manpower Abdul-Rahman Nur-Eddin. |
1083 1084# From Ahmed Atyya, National Telecommunications Corp. (NTC), Sudan (2017-10-17): 1085# ... the Republic of Sudan is going to change the time zone from (GMT+3:00) 1086# to (GMT+ 2:00) starting from Wednesday 1 November 2017. | |
1087# | 1060# |
1088# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): 1089# A scanned copy (in Arabic) of Cabinet Resolution No. 352 for the 1090# year 2017 can be found as an attachment in email today from Yahia 1091# Abdalla of NTC, archived at: 1092# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2017-October/025333.html 1093 | |
1094# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1095Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1096Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 - 1097Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 1098Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1099# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1100Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931 1101 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 | 1061# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1062Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1063Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 - 1064Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 1065Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1066# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1067Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931 1068 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 |
1102 3:00 - EAT 2017 Nov 1 1103 2:00 - CAT | 1069 3:00 - EAT |
1104 1105# South Sudan | 1070 1071# South Sudan |
1106# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1107Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931 1108 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 1109 3:00 - EAT | 1072Link Africa/Khartoum Africa/Juba |
1110 1111# Swaziland 1112# See Africa/Johannesburg. 1113 1114# Tanzania 1115# See Africa/Nairobi. 1116 1117# Togo --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1139# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 1140# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... 1141# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Itemid=50 1142 1143# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-16): 1144# According to several news sources, Tunisia will not observe DST this year. 1145# (Arabic) 1146# http://www.elbashayer.com/?page=viewn&nid=42546 | 1073 1074# Swaziland 1075# See Africa/Johannesburg. 1076 1077# Tanzania 1078# See Africa/Nairobi. 1079 1080# Togo --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1102# Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00 1103# Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ... 1104# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Itemid=50 1105 1106# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-16): 1107# According to several news sources, Tunisia will not observe DST this year. 1108# (Arabic) 1109# http://www.elbashayer.com/?page=viewn&nid=42546 |
1147# https://www.babnet.net/kiwidetail-15295.asp | 1110# http://www.babnet.net/kiwidetail-15295.asp |
1148# 1149# We have also confirmed this with the US embassy in Tunisia. 1150# We have a wrap-up about this on the following page: | 1111# 1112# We have also confirmed this with the US embassy in Tunisia. 1113# We have a wrap-up about this on the following page: |
1151# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/tunisia-cancels-dst-2009.html | 1114# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/tunisia-cancels-dst-2009.html |
1152 1153# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): 1154# Here is a link to Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency 1155# 1156# Standard time to be kept the whole year long (tap.info.tn): 1157# 1158# (in English) 1159# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26813&Itemid=157 --- 66 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1115 1116# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17): 1117# Here is a link to Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency 1118# 1119# Standard time to be kept the whole year long (tap.info.tn): 1120# 1121# (in English) 1122# http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26813&Itemid=157 --- 66 unchanged lines hidden --- |