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diff --git a/time/africa b/time/africa index a9786670b5..11c2008aab 100644 --- a/time/africa +++ b/time/africa @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.6 +# @(#)africa 7.7 # 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 @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which # I found in the UCLA library. # +# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is +# 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 @@ -95,10 +99,10 @@ Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 " DST" Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 - Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 " DST" Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 - -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. +# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 - 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 0:00 Algeria WET%s 1940 Feb 25 2:00 1:00 Algeria MET%s 1946 Oct 7 0:00 - WET 1956 Jan 29 @@ -303,9 +307,10 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch # from a GMT offset that was not a multiple of 15 minutes. -# Time magazine reported that it was in honor of their leader's birthday. -# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, and Whitman reports -0:44:30; -# go with Whitman. +# 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: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -571,10 +576,11 @@ Rule Tunisia 1988 max - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule Tunisia 1991 max - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 " DST" -# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Whitman's more precise 0:09:05. +# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. +# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 - 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 9 # Paris Mean Time + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 1:00 Tunisia MET%s # Uganda |