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| -rw-r--r-- | time/africa | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | time/asia | 43 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | time/europe | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | time/northamerica | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | time/yearistype | 6 |
5 files changed, 71 insertions, 44 deletions
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 diff --git a/time/asia b/time/asia index 6e7c63652b..78e7f26ea2 100644 --- a/time/asia +++ b/time/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.13 +# @(#)asia 7.14 # 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 @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S #Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 10 0:00 1:00 D #Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg (September 5, 1993): +# From Ephraim Silverberg (September 20, 1995): # # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # on the party the Minister of Interior, the size of the coalition # government, the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Hence, # changes may need to be made on a semi-annual basis. One thing is entrenched -# in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days on daylight savings -# time annually. +# in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days of daylight savings +# time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time has +# been from midnight Thursday night to 1 a.m. Friday morning and the change +# back to standard time on Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time +# to 11 p.m. standard time. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D @@ -452,23 +455,35 @@ Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0:00 S Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0:00 S -# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for -# the Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem. There are no dates yet for 1996 and -# beyond so your guess is as good as theirs (those who are interested can -# call 972-2-701411 and ask for the spokeswoman). +# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the +# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by +# calling the switchboard at 972-2-701411 and asking for the spokeswoman. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0:00 S Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D -# On 1995-03-13 Ephraim Silverberg corrected the next line from Aug 27 to Sep 3. Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0:00 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg (1995-03-13): -# The Spokeswoman's office confirmed that there are not yet any dates -# for the timezone conversion for the years 1996 and beyond yet -# and this is one of the things the newly-appointed Minister of Interior -# will have to decide sometime this year. +# The dates for 1996-1998 were also obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman +# for the Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The official announcement +# can be viewed (in Hebrew) at the following URL: +# +# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/misc/timezones/announcements/1996-1998.ps.gz +# +# Emptor Caveat: The fall of 1996 is an election year (the change to/from +# daylight savings time affects the earliest possible time for morning prayers +# making it is a sensitive issue among the religious sector of the electorate) +# so political considerations may cause the outgoing government to make the +# change back to standard time earlier in the fall of 1996 and the incoming +# government may nullify the 1997/1998 times altogether depending on the +# coalition formed after the elections. Life isn't boring here in Israel. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Zion 1996 1998 - Mar Fri>=14 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0:00 S +Rule Zion 1997 only - Nov 2 0:00 0:00 S +Rule Zion 1998 only - Oct 25 0:00 0:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tel_Aviv 2:19:04 - LMT 1880 diff --git a/time/europe b/time/europe index a01124b6a4..6c3ce4834a 100644 --- a/time/europe +++ b/time/europe @@ -1135,10 +1135,13 @@ Rule France 1975 only - Mar 20 2:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule France 1975 only - Sep 22 2:00s 0 - Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule France 1976 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 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, and Whitman gives 0:09:05, +# but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21. +# Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based +# on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:05 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 - 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time +Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 0:00 France WET%s 1940 Jun 14 1:00 M-Eur MET%s 1944 Aug 25 0:00 France WET%s 1945 Sep 16 3:00 @@ -1466,15 +1469,17 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1924 May 2 # This may change to `EC' soon. # Monaco -# 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 Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 - 0:09:05 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 0:00 France WET%s 1945 Sep 16 3:00 1:00 France MET%s 1977 1:00 EC MET%s # Netherlands +# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, +# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Neth 1892 only - May 1 0:00 0 AMT # Shanks gives 1916 May 1 0:00 and 1916 Oct 1 0:00; go with Whitman. @@ -1663,9 +1668,6 @@ Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal 0:00 Port WET%s 1983 Sep 25 1:00s 0:00 EC WET%s -# Slovakia -Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava - # Romania # Catholic Romania switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar on # on 1919 Mar 18. Greek Orthodox Romania switched on 1920 Mar 18. @@ -1786,15 +1788,8 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 12:00 - ASK 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 13:00 Russia AS%s -# Yugoslavia (what's left of it -- mostly Serbia) -# They switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar on 1918 Mar 18. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 - 1:00 - MET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 - 1:00 M-Eur MET%s 1945 May 8 2:00s - 1:00 1:00 "MET DST" 1945 Sep 16 2:00s - 1:00 - MET 1983 - 1:00 EC MET%s +# Slovakia +Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava # Slovenia # They switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar on 1918 Mar 18. @@ -1837,6 +1832,7 @@ Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 22:00s 2:00 " DDST" Rule Spain 1943 only - Oct 3 22:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule Spain 1944 only - Oct 10 22:00s 1:00 " DST" Rule Spain 1945 only - Sep 30 1:00 1:00 " DST" +Rule Spain 1946 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - Rule Spain 1949 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 " DST" Rule Spain 1949 only - Sep 30 1:00 0 - Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Apr Sat>=13 23:00 1:00 " DST" @@ -1980,6 +1976,16 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 2:00 M-Eur EET%s 1994 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 Russia MS%s +# Yugoslavia +# They switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar on 1918 Mar 18. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 + 1:00 - MET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 + 1:00 M-Eur MET%s 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 "MET DST" 1945 Sep 16 2:00s + 1:00 - MET 1983 + 1:00 EC MET%s + ############################################################################### # One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from diff --git a/time/northamerica b/time/northamerica index 479f3fcb80..036fdc6dfc 100644 --- a/time/northamerica +++ b/time/northamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.15 +# @(#)northamerica 7.16 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:30 US H%sT 1933 Apr 30 2:00 -10:00 - HST # Navassa -# no information; probably like US/Eastern +# no information; probably like America/New_York # Old names, for S5 users diff --git a/time/yearistype b/time/yearistype index c7a886c25b..809f5492a1 100755 --- a/time/yearistype +++ b/time/yearistype @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #! /bin/sh -: '@(#)yearistype.sh 7.3' +: '@(#)yearistype.sh 7.4' case $#-$2 in 2-even) case $1 in @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ case $#-$2 in *) exit 1 ;; esac ;; 2-nonpres) case $1 in - *[02468][048]|*[13567][26]) exit 1 ;; + *[02468][048]|*[13579][26]) exit 1 ;; *) exit 0 ;; esac ;; 2-odd) case $1 in @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ case $#-$2 in *) exit 1 ;; esac ;; 2-uspres) case $1 in - *[02468][048]|*[13567][26]) exit 0 ;; + *[02468][048]|*[13579][26]) exit 0 ;; *) exit 1 ;; esac ;; 2-*) echo "$0: wild type - $2" >&2 |