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authorRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1995-09-21 16:21:49 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1995-09-21 16:21:49 +0000
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* time/africa, time/asia, time/europe, time/northamerica,
time/yearistype: New data from ADO 95h.
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+++ 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