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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa index 1a601c9ce92..8286e6f62f0 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@ -# $OpenBSD: africa,v 1.4 1997/01/14 04:36:47 millert Exp $ -# @(#)africa 7.16 +# @(#)africa 7.23 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1997-10-05): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). +# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). # # Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -28,95 +27,40 @@ # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, # Oxford University Press (1980). # -# I added so many Zone names that the old, mostly flat name space was unwieldy. -# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where -# AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and -# LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region. -# For example, the old zone name `Egypt' is now `Africa/Cairo'. +# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT +# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, +# but Mark R V Murray <markm@iafrica.com> reports that +# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, +# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and +# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for +# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''. +# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference. # -# Here are the general rules I used for choosing location names, -# in decreasing order of importance: +# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago; +# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00, +# and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00. +# This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African +# mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara. # -# Use only valid Posix file names. Use only Ascii letters, digits, `.', -# `-' and `_'. Do not exceed 14 characters or start with `-'. -# E.g. prefer `Brunei' to `Bandar_Seri_Begawan'. -# Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country. -# One such location is enough. -# If all the clocks in a country's region have agreed since 1970, -# don't bother to include more than one location -# even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970. -# Otherwise these tables would become annoyingly large. -# If a name is ambiguous, use a less ambiguous alternative; -# e.g. many cities are named San Jose and Georgetown, so -# prefer `Costa_Rica' to `San_Jose' and `Guyana' to `Georgetown'. -# Keep locations compact. Use cities or small islands, not countries -# or regions, so that any future time zone changes do not split -# locations into different time zones. E.g. prefer `Paris' -# to `France', since France has had multiple time zones. -# Use traditional English spelling, e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Roma', and -# prefer `Athens' to the true name (which uses Greek letters). -# The Posix file name restrictions encourage this rule. -# Use the most populous among locations in a country's time zone, -# e.g. prefer `Shanghai' to `Beijing'. Among locations with -# similar populations, pick the best-known location, -# e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Milan'. -# Use the singular form, e.g. prefer `Canary' to `Canaries'. -# Omit common suffixes like `_Islands' and `_City', unless that -# would lead to ambiguity. E.g. prefer `Cayman' to -# `Cayman_Islands' and `Guatemala' to `Guatemala_City', -# but prefer `Mexico_City' to `Mexico' because the country -# of Mexico has several time zones. -# Use `_' to represent a space. -# Omit `.' from abbreviations in names, e.g. prefer `St_Helena' -# to `St._Helena'. +# To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency: +# -1:00 WAT West Africa Time (no longer used) +# 0:00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time +# 2:00 CAT Central Africa Time +# 2:00 SAST South Africa Standard Time +# and Murray suggests the following abbreviation: +# 1:00 WAT West Africa Time +# I realize that this leads to `WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00 +# for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of +# until we get more information. # -# For time zone abbreviations like `EST' I used the following rules, -# in decreasing order of importance: -# -# Use abbreviations that consist of 3 or more upper-case Ascii letters, -# except use "___" for locations while uninhabited. -# Posix.1 requires at least 3 characters, and the restriction to -# upper-case Ascii letters follows most traditions. -# Previous editions of this database also used characters like -# ' ' and '?', but these characters have a special meaning to -# the shell and cause commands like -# set `date` -# to have unexpected effects. In theory, the character set could -# be !%./@A-Z^_a-z{}, but these tables use only upper-case -# Ascii letters (and "___"). -# Use abbreviations that are in common use among English-speakers, -# e.g. `EST' for Eastern Standard Time in North America. -# We assume that applications translate them to other languages -# as part of the normal localization process; for example, -# a French application might translate `EST' to `HNE'. -# For zones whose times are taken from a city's longitude, use the -# traditional xMT notation, e.g. `PMT' for Paris Mean Time. -# The only name like this in current use is `GMT'. -# If there is no common English abbreviation, abbreviate the English -# translation of the usual phrase used by native speakers. -# If this is not available or is a phrase mentioning the country -# (e.g. ``Cape Verde Time''), then: -# -# When a country has a single or principal time zone region, -# append `T' to the country's ISO code, e.g. `CVT' for -# Cape Verde Time. For summer time append `ST'; -# for double summer time append `DST'; etc. -# When a country has multiple time zones, take the first three -# letters of an English place name identifying each zone -# and then append `T', `ST', etc. as before; -# e.g. `MOSST' for MOScow Summer Time. -# -# -# For Africa I invented the following time zone abbreviations. -# LMT Local Mean Time -# -1:00 AAT Atlantic Africa Time (no longer used) -# 0:00 WAT West Africa Time -# 1:00 CAT Central Africa Time -# 2:00 SAT South Africa Time +# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome! +# 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time +# 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used) +# 2:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used) +# 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used) +# 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used) # 3:00 EAT East Africa Time -# The final `T' is replaced by `ST' for summer time, e.g. `SAST'. -# BEAT is British East Africa Time, which was 2:30 before 1948 and 2:45 after. - +# 4:00 EAST East Africa Summer Time (no longer used) # Algeria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -159,7 +103,7 @@ Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time? - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Bassas da India # uninhabited @@ -168,31 +112,31 @@ Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892 # Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 - 1:00 - CAT + 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 + 1:00 - WAT # Botswana # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885 - 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 - 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 + 2:00 1:00 CAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 + 2:00 - CAT # Burkina Faso # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT # Burundi # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890 - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT # Cameroon # Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Cape Verde # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -205,29 +149,36 @@ Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia # Central African Republic # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Chad # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT 1979 Oct 14 - 1:00 1:00 CAST 1980 Mar 8 - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14 + 1:00 1:00 WAST 1980 Mar 8 + 1:00 - WAT # Comoros # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro 3:00 - EAT -# Congo +# Democratic Republic of Congo +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 + 1:00 - WAT +Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 + 2:00 - CAT + +# Republic of the Congo # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Cote D'Ivoire # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT # Djibouti # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -238,18 +189,6 @@ Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul # Egypt -# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): -# Egypt: DST from first day of May to first of October (ending may -# also be on Sept 30th not 31st -- you might want to ask one of the -# soc.* groups, you might hit someone who could ask an embassy). -# DST since 1960 except for 1981-82. - -# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): -# EGYPT 2 H AHEAD OF UTC -# EGYPT 3 H AHEAD OF UTC MAY 17 - SEP 30 (AFTER -# EGYPT RAMADAN) - -# From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -264,16 +203,15 @@ Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 1966 1990 - Oct 1 3:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1966 1994 - Oct 1 3:00 0 - Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 1990 only - May 1 1:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 1991 1994 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastFri 0:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S +# IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00; go with Shanks. +Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastFri 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -282,20 +220,24 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct # Equatorial Guinea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT 1963 Dec 15 - 1:00 - CAT + 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15 + 1:00 - WAT # Eritrea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time - 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT? + 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT 3:00 - EAT # Ethiopia +# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05): +# Shanks writes that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones between +# 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890. +# We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870 - 2:35:20 - AAMT 1936 May 5 # Addis Ababa MT? + 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT 3:00 - EAT # Europa Island @@ -304,23 +246,20 @@ Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870 # Gabon # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Gambia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912 -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time - -1:00 - AAT 1964 - 0:00 - WAT + -1:00 - WAT 1964 + 0:00 - GMT # Ghana -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-09-03): -# WATST is my invention for ``West Africa one-Third Summer Time''. -# From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; go with Shanks. -Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 WATST -Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 WAT +Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST +Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 0:00 Ghana %s @@ -331,64 +270,54 @@ Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 # Guinea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 - 1:00 - CAT 1960 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 + -1:00 - WAT 1960 + 0:00 - GMT # Guinea-Bissau # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26 - 1:00 - CAT 1975 - 0:00 - WAT + -1:00 - WAT 1975 + 0:00 - GMT # Juan de Nova # uninhabited # Kenya -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): -# Shanks says the transition to 2:45 was in 1940, but it must have been 1948. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul 3:00 - EAT 1930 - 2:30 - BEAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAT 1960 + 2:30 - BEAT 1940 + 2:45 - BEAUT 1960 3:00 - EAT # Lesotho # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 + 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - SAST # Liberia # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch -# from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes. +# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. # Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks. # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman # each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. # -# From Shanks (1991), as corrected by Whitman: +# From Shanks, as corrected by Whitman: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT ############################################################################### # Libya -# From Bob Devine (January 28 1988): -# Libya: Since 1982 April 1st to September 30th (?) - -# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): -# LIBYAN ARAB 1 H AHEAD OF UTC JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA -# LIBYAN ARAB 2 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 1 - SEP 30 JAMAHIRIYA/LIBYA - -# From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - @@ -404,8 +333,10 @@ Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1990 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1996 max - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1996 max - Sep 30 2:00s 0 - +Rule Libya 1996 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1996 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 - +Rule Libya 1997 max - Mar lastThu 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Libya 1997 max - Oct Thu>=1 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 @@ -424,24 +355,24 @@ Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Malawi # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT # Mali # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 - -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 + -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20 + 0:00 - GMT # no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT # Mauritania # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 - -1:00 - AAT 1960 Jun 20 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 + -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28 + 0:00 - GMT # Mauritius # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -456,6 +387,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou 3:00 - EAT # Morocco +# See the `europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta). # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 - @@ -479,36 +411,40 @@ Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26 0:00 - WET # Western Sahara Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan - -1:00 - AAT 1976 Apr 14 + -1:00 - WAT 1976 Apr 14 0:00 - WET # Mozambique # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT # Namibia +# Shanks says DST transitions are at 0:00; go with IATA. +# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks. # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time - 2:00 - SAT 1942 Sep 20 2:00 + 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00 - 2:00 Namibia SA%sT + 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence + 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3 + 1:00 Namibia WA%sT # Niger # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 - 1:00 - CAT 1934 Feb 26 - 0:00 - WAT 1960 - 1:00 - CAT +Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 + -1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26 + 0:00 - GMT 1960 + 1:00 - WAT # Nigeria # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep - 1:00 - CAT + 1:00 - WAT # Reunion # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -518,29 +454,33 @@ Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis # Rwanda # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT # St Helena +# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05): +# Shanks says St Helena was 1W26 (-0:05:44) from 1890 to 1951, +# but this is most likely a typo for 5W42, the longitude of Jamestown. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown - -0:06 - SHT 1951 # St Helena Time (?) + -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time 0:00 - GMT # The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar: -# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, says Whitman -# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995 -# Gough, Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT +# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA +# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995 and the CIA +# Gough (scientific station since 1955): on GMT, says the CIA +# Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT # Sao Tome and Principe # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884 -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 # Lisbon Mean Time - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT # Senegal # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912 - -1:00 - AAT 1941 Jun - 0:00 - WAT + -1:00 - WAT 1941 Jun + 0:00 - GMT # Seychelles # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -550,35 +490,36 @@ Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria # Sierra Leone # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks. -Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 SLST +Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 WAT +Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 SLST +Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time - -1:00 SL AA%sT 1957 - 0:00 SL WA%sT + -1:00 SL %s 1957 + 0:00 SL %s # Somalia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): -# Shanks omits the 1948 transition to 2:45; this is probably a typo. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov 3:00 - EAT 1931 - 2:30 - BEAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAT 1957 # not in Shanks + 2:30 - BEAT 1957 3:00 - EAT # South Africa # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S +Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 - Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 - 1:30 - SAT 1903 Mar - 2:00 SA SA%sT -# Prince Edward Is + 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar + 2:00 SA SAST +# Shanks erroneously claims that most of South Africa switched to 1:00 +# on 1994-04-03 at 00:00. +# +# Marion and Prince Edward Is +# weather station since 1947 # no information # Sudan @@ -593,24 +534,24 @@ Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931 - 2:00 Sudan EE%sT + 2:00 Sudan CA%sT # Swaziland # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - SAST # Tanzania # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931 3:00 - EAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAT 1961 + 2:45 - BEAUT 1961 3:00 - EAT # Togo # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 - 0:00 - WAT + 0:00 - GMT # Tromelin # uninhabited @@ -650,22 +591,15 @@ Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul 3:00 - EAT 1930 2:30 - BEAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAT 1957 + 2:45 - BEAUT 1957 3:00 - EAT -# Zaire -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 - 1:00 - CAT -Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 - 2:00 - SAT - # Zambia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT # Zimbabwe # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar - 2:00 - SAT + 2:00 - CAT |