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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. # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
  4. # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
  5. # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
  6. # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
  7. # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
  8. #
  9. # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
  10. # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
  11. # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
  12. # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
  13. #
  14. # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
  15. # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
  16. # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
  17. # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
  18. # of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted,
  19. # IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
  20. #
  21. # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
  22. # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
  23. # I found in the UCLA library.
  24. #
  25. # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
  26. # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
  27. # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
  28. #
  29. # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
  30. # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
  31. #
  32. # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
  33. # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively,
  34. # but Mark R V Murray reports that
  35. # 'SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa,
  36. # 'CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and
  37. # 'WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for
  38. # the area that includes Nigeria is "West Africa".
  39. # He has heard of "Western Sahara Time" for +0:00 but can find no reference.
  40. #
  41. # To make things confusing, 'WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago;
  42. # I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00,
  43. # and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00.
  44. # This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African
  45. # mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara.
  46. #
  47. # To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency:
  48. # -1:00 WAT West Africa Time (no longer used)
  49. # 0:00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time
  50. # 2:00 CAT Central Africa Time
  51. # 2:00 SAST South Africa Standard Time
  52. # and Murray suggests the following abbreviation:
  53. # 1:00 WAT West Africa Time
  54. # I realize that this leads to 'WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00
  55. # for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of
  56. # until we get more information.
  57. #
  58. # I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome!
  59. # 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time
  60. # 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used)
  61. # 2:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used)
  62. # 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
  63. # 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
  64. # 3:00 EAT East Africa Time
  65. # Algeria
  66. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  67. Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
  68. Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 -
  69. Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
  70. Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
  71. Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
  72. Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
  73. Rule Algeria 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
  74. Rule Algeria 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
  75. Rule Algeria 1921 only - Jun 21 23:00s 0 -
  76. Rule Algeria 1939 only - Sep 11 23:00s 1:00 S
  77. Rule Algeria 1939 only - Nov 19 1:00 0 -
  78. Rule Algeria 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S
  79. Rule Algeria 1944 only - Oct 8 2:00 0 -
  80. Rule Algeria 1945 only - Sep 16 1:00 0 -
  81. Rule Algeria 1971 only - Apr 25 23:00s 1:00 S
  82. Rule Algeria 1971 only - Sep 26 23:00s 0 -
  83. Rule Algeria 1977 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S
  84. Rule Algeria 1977 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
  85. Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 S
  86. Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 -
  87. Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 S
  88. Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
  89. # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
  90. # more precise 0:09:21.
  91. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  92. Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
  93. 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
  94. 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1940 Feb 25 2:00
  95. 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1946 Oct 7
  96. 0:00 - WET 1956 Jan 29
  97. 1:00 - CET 1963 Apr 14
  98. 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1977 Oct 21
  99. 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26
  100. 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May
  101. 1:00 - CET
  102. # Angola
  103. # Benin
  104. # See Africa/Lagos.
  105. # Botswana
  106. # See Africa/Maputo.
  107. # Burkina Faso
  108. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  109. # Burundi
  110. # See Africa/Maputo.
  111. # Cameroon
  112. # See Africa/Lagos.
  113. # Cape Verde
  114. #
  115. # Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to CVT.
  116. # Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
  117. # http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
  118. # merely made it official?
  119. #
  120. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  121. Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia
  122. -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep
  123. -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15
  124. -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00
  125. -1:00 - CVT
  126. # Central African Republic
  127. # See Africa/Lagos.
  128. # Chad
  129. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  130. Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena
  131. 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14
  132. 1:00 1:00 WAST 1980 Mar 8
  133. 1:00 - WAT
  134. # Comoros
  135. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  136. # Democratic Republic of the Congo
  137. # See Africa/Lagos for the western part and Africa/Maputo for the eastern.
  138. # Republic of the Congo
  139. # See Africa/Lagos.
  140. # Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
  141. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  142. Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
  143. 0:00 - GMT
  144. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako # Mali
  145. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul # Gambia
  146. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry # Guinea
  147. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar # Senegal
  148. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown # Sierra Leone
  149. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome # Togo
  150. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott # Mauritania
  151. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou # Burkina Faso
  152. Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Sao_Tome # São Tomé and Príncipe
  153. Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena # St Helena
  154. # Djibouti
  155. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  156. ###############################################################################
  157. # Egypt
  158. # Milne says Cairo used 2:05:08.9, the local mean time of the Abbasizeh
  159. # observatory; round to nearest. Milne also says that the official time for
  160. # Egypt was mean noon at the Great Pyramid, 2:04:30.5, but apparently this
  161. # did not apply to Cairo, Alexandria, or Port Said.
  162. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  163. Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S
  164. Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
  165. Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S
  166. Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
  167. Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
  168. Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 -
  169. Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
  170. Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S
  171. Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
  172. Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
  173. Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
  174. Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
  175. Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
  176. Rule Egypt 1966 1994 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
  177. Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S
  178. Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S
  179. Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
  180. Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S
  181. Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
  182. # IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00.
  183. # Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29.
  184. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-04-20):
  185. # "...Egypt's interim cabinet decided on Wednesday to cancel daylight
  186. # saving time after a poll posted on its website showed the majority of
  187. # Egyptians would approve the cancellation."
  188. #
  189. # Egypt to cancel daylight saving time
  190. # http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168
  191. # or
  192. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt04.html
  193. Rule Egypt 1995 2010 - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
  194. Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
  195. # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19):
  196. # The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports:
  197. # Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday
  198. # after observing the daylight saving time since May.
  199. # http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf
  200. Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 24:00 0 -
  201. # From Dirk Losch (2007-08-14):
  202. # I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight
  203. # saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07.
  204. # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2007-08-15): [The following agree:]
  205. # http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm
  206. # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53
  207. # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-04): The official information...:
  208. # http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm
  209. Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 -
  210. # From Abdelrahman Hassan (2007-09-06):
  211. # Due to the Hijri (lunar Islamic calendar) year being 11 days shorter
  212. # than the year of the Gregorian calendar, Ramadan shifts earlier each
  213. # year. This year it will be observed September 13 (September is quite
  214. # hot in Egypt), and the idea is to make fasting easier for workers by
  215. # shifting business hours one hour out of daytime heat. Consequently,
  216. # unless discontinued, next DST may end Thursday 28 August 2008.
  217. # From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):
  218. # For lack of better info, assume the new rule is last Thursday in August.
  219. # From Petr Machata (2009-04-06):
  220. # The following appeared in Red Hat bugzilla[1] (edited):
  221. #
  222. # > $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009
  223. # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu =
  224. # Apr 23
  225. # > 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
  226. # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri =
  227. # Apr 24
  228. # > 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
  229. # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu =
  230. # Aug 27
  231. # > 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
  232. # > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu =
  233. # Aug 27
  234. # > 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
  235. #
  236. # > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59=
  237. # :59)
  238. # > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/
  239. #
  240. # timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that.
  241. #
  242. # [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263
  243. # [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53
  244. # [3] http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/
  245. # From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20):
  246. # In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth
  247. # Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday
  248. # in September.
  249. # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-11):
  250. # We have been able to confirm the August change with the Egyptian Cabinet
  251. # Information and Decision Support Center:
  252. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html
  253. #
  254. # The Middle East News Agency
  255. # http://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx
  256. # also reports "Egypt starts winter time on August 21"
  257. # today in article numbered "71, 11/08/2009 12:25 GMT."
  258. # Only the title above is available without a subscription to their service,
  259. # and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine
  260. # (at least today).
  261. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20):
  262. # According to News from Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has
  263. # decided that Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during
  264. # Ramadan.
  265. #
  266. # Arabic translation:
  267. # "Clocks to go back during Ramadan - and then forward again"
  268. # http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again
  269. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html
  270. # From Ahmad El-Dardiry (2014-05-07):
  271. # Egypt is to change back to Daylight system on May 15
  272. # http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100735/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-government-to-reapply-daylight-saving-time-.aspx
  273. # From Gunther Vermier (2014-05-13):
  274. # our Egypt office confirms that the change will be at 15 May "midnight" (24:00)
  275. # From Imed Chihi (2014-06-04):
  276. # We have finally "located" a precise official reference about the DST changes
  277. # in Egypt. The Ministers Cabinet decision is explained at
  278. # http://www.cabinet.gov.eg/Media/CabinetMeetingsDetails.aspx?id=347 ...
  279. # [T]his (Arabic) site is not accessible outside Egypt, but the page ...
  280. # translates into: "With regard to daylight saving time, it is scheduled to
  281. # take effect at exactly twelve o'clock this evening, Thursday, 15 MAY 2014,
  282. # to be suspended by twelve o'clock on the evening of Thursday, 26 JUN 2014,
  283. # and re-established again at the end of the month of Ramadan, at twelve
  284. # o'clock on the evening of Thursday, 31 JUL 2014." This statement has been
  285. # reproduced by other (more accessible) sites[, e.g.,]...
  286. # http://elgornal.net/news/news.aspx?id=4699258
  287. # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-04):
  288. # Sarah El Deeb and Lee Keath of AP report that the Egyptian government says
  289. # the change is because of blackouts in Cairo, even though Ahram Online (cited
  290. # above) says DST had no affect on electricity consumption. There is
  291. # no information about when DST will end this fall. See:
  292. # http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833
  293. # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08):
  294. # Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015.
  295. # This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last
  296. # Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but
  297. # dates not yet announced....
  298. # http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ...
  299. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html
  300. # From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):
  301. # Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at
  302. # least for 2015.
  303. #
  304. # From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):
  305. # http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
  306. # "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
  307. # time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
  308. # practice altogether in future years."
  309. #
  310. # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-24):
  311. # Yesterday the office of Egyptian President El-Sisi announced his
  312. # decision to abandon DST permanently. See Ahram Online 2015-04-24.
  313. # http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/128509/Egypt/Politics-/Sisi-cancels-daylight-saving-time-in-Egypt.aspx
  314. Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 -
  315. Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 -
  316. Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 -
  317. Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 24:00 1:00 S
  318. Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
  319. Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S
  320. Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 -
  321. Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S
  322. Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
  323. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  324. Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
  325. 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
  326. # Equatorial Guinea
  327. # See Africa/Lagos.
  328. # Eritrea
  329. # Ethiopia
  330. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  331. # Gabon
  332. # See Africa/Lagos.
  333. # Gambia
  334. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  335. # Ghana
  336. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  337. # Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to "the present";
  338. # Shanks & Pottenger say 1936 to 1942;
  339. # and September 1 to January 1 is given by:
  340. # Scott Keltie J, Epstein M (eds), The Statesman's Year-Book,
  341. # 57th ed. Macmillan, London (1920), OCLC 609408015, pp xxviii.
  342. # For lack of better info, assume DST was observed from 1920 to 1942.
  343. Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST
  344. Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT
  345. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  346. Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
  347. 0:00 Ghana %s
  348. # Guinea
  349. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  350. # Guinea-Bissau
  351. #
  352. # Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
  353. # evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
  354. # http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
  355. # with the date that it took effect, namely 1912-01-01.
  356. #
  357. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  358. Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1
  359. -1:00 - WAT 1975
  360. 0:00 - GMT
  361. # Kenya
  362. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  363. Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
  364. 3:00 - EAT 1930
  365. 2:30 - BEAT 1940
  366. 2:45 - BEAUT 1960
  367. 3:00 - EAT
  368. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia
  369. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea
  370. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
  371. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
  372. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda
  373. Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia
  374. Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar
  375. Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
  376. Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
  377. # Lesotho
  378. # See Africa/Johannesburg.
  379. # Liberia
  380. # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
  381. # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
  382. # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.
  383. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
  384. # Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan;
  385. # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
  386. # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and
  387. # Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
  388. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  389. Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882
  390. -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
  391. -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time
  392. 0:00 - GMT
  393. ###############################################################################
  394. # Libya
  395. # From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
  396. # Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
  397. # http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
  398. # Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc
  399. #
  400. # Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
  401. # http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
  402. #
  403. # From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
  404. # Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
  405. # The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
  406. # (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
  407. # lastFri instead of lastSun).
  408. # From Even Scharning (2013-10-25):
  409. # The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was
  410. # cancelled yesterday....
  411. # http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/
  412. #
  413. # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25):
  414. # For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UTC+2.
  415. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  416. Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S
  417. Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
  418. Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
  419. Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
  420. Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S
  421. Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
  422. Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
  423. Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
  424. Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
  425. Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
  426. Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
  427. Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
  428. Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
  429. Rule Libya 1997 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
  430. Rule Libya 1997 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
  431. Rule Libya 2013 only - Mar lastFri 1:00 1:00 S
  432. Rule Libya 2013 only - Oct lastFri 2:00 0 -
  433. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  434. Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
  435. 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
  436. 2:00 - EET 1982
  437. 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4
  438. # The 1996 and 1997 entries are from Shanks & Pottenger;
  439. # the IATA SSIM data entries contain some obvious errors.
  440. 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30
  441. 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1997 Oct 4
  442. 2:00 - EET 2012 Nov 10 2:00
  443. 1:00 Libya CE%sT 2013 Oct 25 2:00
  444. 2:00 - EET
  445. # Madagascar
  446. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  447. # Malawi
  448. # See Africa/Maputo.
  449. # Mali
  450. # Mauritania
  451. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  452. # Mauritius
  453. # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25):
  454. # Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial
  455. # basis....
  456. # It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to
  457. # 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful....
  458. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html
  459. # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25):
  460. # http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD
  461. # From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30):
  462. # The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A
  463. # final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving
  464. # would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight.
  465. # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
  466. # Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger.
  467. # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-07-10):
  468. # According to
  469. # http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216
  470. # (in French), Mauritius will start and end their DST a few days earlier
  471. # than previously announced (2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31). The new start
  472. # date is 2008-10-26 at 02:00 and the new end date is 2009-03-27 (no time
  473. # given, but it is probably at either 2 or 3 wall clock time).
  474. #
  475. # A little strange though, since the article says that they moved the date
  476. # to align itself with Europe and USA which also change time on that date,
  477. # but that means they have not paid attention to what happened in
  478. # USA/Canada last year (DST ends first Sunday in November). I also wonder
  479. # why that they end on a Friday, instead of aligning with Europe which
  480. # changes two days later.
  481. # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11):
  482. # Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving
  483. # time: Energy conservation?"- No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally
  484. # published on Monday, June 30, 2008...
  485. #
  486. # I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction
  487. # de l'heure d'été" stating that DST in Mauritius starting on October 26
  488. # and ending on March 27, 2009 is the most recent one....
  489. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html
  490. # From Riad M. Hossen Ally (2008-08-03):
  491. # The Government of Mauritius weblink
  492. # http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/pmosite/menuitem.4ca0efdee47462e7440a600248a521ca/?content_id=4728ca68b2a5b110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD
  493. # Cabinet Decision of July 18th, 2008 states as follows:
  494. #
  495. # 4. ...Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly
  496. # of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in
  497. # Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of
  498. # the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United
  499. # States of America. It will start at two o'clock in the morning on the
  500. # last Sunday of October and will end at two o'clock in the morning on
  501. # the last Sunday of March the following year. The summer time for the
  502. # year 2008-2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008
  503. # and end on 29 March 2009.
  504. # From Ed Maste (2008-10-07):
  505. # THE TIME BILL (No. XXVII of 2008) Explanatory Memorandum states the
  506. # beginning / ending of summer time is 2 o'clock standard time in the
  507. # morning of the last Sunday of October / last Sunday of March.
  508. # http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/bill2708.pdf
  509. # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-05):
  510. # According to several sources, Mauritius will not continue to observe
  511. # DST the coming summer...
  512. #
  513. # Some sources, in French:
  514. # 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
  515. # 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-
  516. #
  517. # Our wrap-up:
  518. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat.html
  519. # From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11):
  520. # The "mauritius-dst-will-not-repeat" wrapup includes this:
  521. # "The trial ended on March 29, 2009, when the clocks moved back by one hour
  522. # at 2am (or 02:00) local time..."
  523. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  524. Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S
  525. Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 -
  526. Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
  527. Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
  528. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  529. Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
  530. 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time
  531. # Agalega Is, Rodriguez
  532. # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
  533. # Mayotte
  534. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  535. # Morocco
  536. # See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
  537. # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09):
  538. # Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between
  539. # 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008.
  540. #
  541. # "... Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will
  542. # be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to
  543. # Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Khalid Naciri...."
  544. #
  545. # http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_morocco01.html
  546. # http://en.afrik.com/news11892.html
  547. # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09):
  548. # The Morocco time change can be confirmed on Morocco web site Maghreb Arabe
  549. # Presse:
  550. # http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box3/morocco_shifts_to_da/view
  551. #
  552. # Morocco shifts to daylight time on June 1st through September 27, Govt.
  553. # spokesman.
  554. # From Patrice Scattolin (2008-05-09):
  555. # According to this article:
  556. # http://www.avmaroc.com/actualite/heure-dete-comment-a127896.html
  557. # (and republished here: <http://www.actu.ma/heure-dete-comment_i127896_0.html>)
  558. # the changes occur at midnight:
  559. #
  560. # Saturday night May 31st at midnight (which in French is to be
  561. # interpreted as the night between Saturday and Sunday)
  562. # Sunday night the 28th at midnight
  563. #
  564. # Seeing that the 28th is Monday, I am guessing that she intends to say
  565. # the midnight of the 28th which is the midnight between Sunday and
  566. # Monday, which jives with other sources that say that it's inclusive
  567. # June 1st to Sept 27th.
  568. #
  569. # The decision was taken by decree *2-08-224 *but I can't find the decree
  570. # published on the web.
  571. #
  572. # It's also confirmed here:
  573. # http://www.maroc.ma/NR/exeres/FACF141F-D910-44B0-B7FA-6E03733425D1.htm
  574. # on a government portal as being between June 1st and Sept 27th (not yet
  575. # posted in English).
  576. #
  577. # The following Google query will generate many relevant hits:
  578. # http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conseil+de+gouvernement+maroc+heure+avance&btnG=Search
  579. # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-27):
  580. # Morocco will change the clocks back on the midnight between August 31
  581. # and September 1. They originally planned to observe DST to near the end
  582. # of September:
  583. #
  584. # One article about it (in French):
  585. # http://www.menara.ma/fr/Actualites/Maroc/Societe/ci.retour_a_l_heure_gmt_a_partir_du_dimanche_31_aout_a_minuit_officiel_.default
  586. #
  587. # We have some further details posted here:
  588. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-ends-dst-early-2008.html
  589. # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-17):
  590. # Morocco will observe DST from 2009-06-01 00:00 to 2009-08-21 00:00 according
  591. # to many sources, such as
  592. # http://news.marweb.com/morocco/entertainment/morocco-daylight-saving.html
  593. # http://www.medi1sat.ma/fr/depeche.aspx?idp=2312
  594. # (French)
  595. #
  596. # Our summary:
  597. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2009.html
  598. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17):
  599. # Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre,
  600. # Ministère de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics
  601. #
  602. # Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967)
  603. # concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of
  604. # Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be
  605. # advanced 60 minutes from Sunday 31 May 2009 at midnight.
  606. #
  607. # http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/francais/Actualites_fr/PDF_Actualites_Fr/HeureEte_FR.pdf
  608. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco03.html
  609. # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-04-13):
  610. # Several news media in Morocco report that the Ministry of Modernization
  611. # of Public Sectors has announced that Morocco will have DST from
  612. # 2010-05-02 to 2010-08-08.
  613. #
  614. # Example:
  615. # http://www.lavieeco.com/actualites/4099-le-maroc-passera-a-l-heure-d-ete-gmt1-le-2-mai.html
  616. # (French)
  617. # Our page:
  618. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/morocco-starts-dst-2010.html
  619. # From Dan Abitol (2011-03-30):
  620. # ...Rules for Africa/Casablanca are the following (24h format)
  621. # The 3rd April 2011 at 00:00:00, [it] will be 3rd April 01:00:00
  622. # The 31st July 2011 at 00:59:59, [it] will be 31st July 00:00:00
  623. # ...Official links of change in morocco
  624. # The change was broadcast on the FM Radio
  625. # I ve called ANRT (telecom regulations in Morocco) at
  626. # +212.537.71.84.00
  627. # http://www.anrt.net.ma/fr/
  628. # They said that
  629. # http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view
  630. # is the official publication to look at.
  631. # They said that the decision was already taken.
  632. #
  633. # More articles in the press
  634. # http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/5058/secret-l-heure-d-ete-maroc-leve.html
  635. # http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Express/Article.asp?id=148923
  636. # http://www.lavieeco.com/actualite/Le-Maroc-passe-sur-GMT%2B1-a-partir-de-dim
  637. # From Petr Machata (2011-03-30):
  638. # They have it written in English here:
  639. # http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/home/morocco_to_spring_fo/view
  640. #
  641. # It says there that "Morocco will resume its standard time on July 31,
  642. # 2011 at midnight." Now they don't say whether they mean midnight of
  643. # wall clock time (i.e. 11pm UTC), but that's what I would assume. It has
  644. # also been like that in the past.
  645. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2012-03-09):
  646. # According to Infomédiaire web site from Morocco (infomediaire.ma),
  647. # on March 9, 2012, (in French) Heure légale:
  648. # Le Maroc adopte officiellement l'heure d'été
  649. # http://www.infomediaire.ma/news/maroc/heure-l%C3%A9gale-le-maroc-adopte-officiellement-lheure-d%C3%A9t%C3%A9
  650. # Governing Council adopted draft decree, that Morocco DST starts on
  651. # the last Sunday of March (March 25, 2012) and ends on
  652. # last Sunday of September (September 30, 2012)
  653. # except the month of Ramadan.
  654. # or (brief)
  655. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_morocco06.html
  656. # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-10):
  657. # The infomediaire.ma source indicates that the system is to be in
  658. # effect every year. It gives 03H00 as the "fall back" time of day;
  659. # it lacks a "spring forward" time of day; assume 2:00 XXX.
  660. # Wait on specifying the Ramadan exception for details about
  661. # start date, start time of day, end date, and end time of day XXX.
  662. # From Christophe Tropamer (2012-03-16):
  663. # Seen Morocco change again:
  664. # http://www.le2uminutes.com/actualite.php
  665. # "...à partir du dernier dimanche d'avril et non fins mars,
  666. # comme annoncé précédemment."
  667. # From Milamber Space Network (2012-07-17):
  668. # The official return to GMT is announced by the Moroccan government:
  669. # http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288 [in French]
  670. #
  671. # Google translation, lightly edited:
  672. # Back to the standard time of the Kingdom (GMT)
  673. # Pursuant to Decree No. 2-12-126 issued on 26 Jumada (I) 1433 (April 18,
  674. # 2012) and in accordance with the order of Mr. President of the
  675. # Government No. 3-47-12 issued on 24 Sha'ban (11 July 2012), the Ministry
  676. # of Public Service and Administration Modernization announces the return
  677. # of the legal time of the Kingdom (GMT) from Friday, July 20, 2012 until
  678. # Monday, August 20, 2012. So the time will be delayed by 60 minutes from
  679. # 3:00 am Friday, July 20, 2012 and will again be advanced by 60 minutes
  680. # August 20, 2012 from 2:00 am.
  681. # From Paul Eggert (2013-03-06):
  682. # Morocco's daylight-saving transitions due to Ramadan seem to be
  683. # announced a bit in advance. On 2012-07-11 the Moroccan government
  684. # announced that year's Ramadan daylight-saving transitions would be
  685. # 2012-07-20 and 2012-08-20; see
  686. # http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288
  687. # From Andrew Paprocki (2013-07-02):
  688. # Morocco announced that the year's Ramadan daylight-savings
  689. # transitions would be 2013-07-07 and 2013-08-10; see:
  690. # http://www.maroc.ma/en/news/morocco-suspends-daylight-saving-time-july-7-aug10
  691. # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-28):
  692. # Morocco extends DST by one month, on very short notice, just 1 day
  693. # before it was going to end. There is a new decree (2.13.781) for
  694. # this, where DST from now on goes from last Sunday of March at 02:00
  695. # to last Sunday of October at 03:00, similar to EU rules. Official
  696. # source (French):
  697. # http://www.maroc.gov.ma/fr/actualites/lhoraire-dete-gmt1-maintenu-jusquau-27-octobre-2013
  698. # Another source (specifying the time for start and end in the decree):
  699. # http://www.lemag.ma/Heure-d-ete-au-Maroc-jusqu-au-27-octobre_a75620.html
  700. # From Sebastien Willemijns (2014-03-18):
  701. # http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2014/3/18/maroc-heure-dete-avancez-tous-horloges-247891.asp
  702. # From Milamber Space Network (2014-06-05):
  703. # The Moroccan government has recently announced that the country will return
  704. # to standard time at 03:00 on Saturday, June 28, 2014 local time.... DST
  705. # will resume again at 02:00 on Saturday, August 2, 2014....
  706. # http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=586
  707. # From Milamber (2015-06-08):
  708. # (Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes
  709. # Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding
  710. # that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19,
  711. # 2015 at 2:00. The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I
  712. # 1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of
  713. # 16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015).
  714. # Source (french):
  715. # http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/
  716. #
  717. # From Milamber (2015-06-09):
  718. # http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863
  719. #
  720. # From Michael Deckers (2015-06-09):
  721. # [The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go
  722. # from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch....
  723. # I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in
  724. # <http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
  725. # with the patch.
  726. # From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08):
  727. # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules,
  728. # and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last
  729. # Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after
  730. # Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were
  731. # determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the
  732. # results integrated by hand into the table below.
  733. # (let ((islamic-year 1437))
  734. # (require 'cal-islam)
  735. # (while (< islamic-year 1460)
  736. # (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
  737. # (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
  738. # (sunday 0))
  739. # (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7)))
  740. # (while (/= sunday (mod b 7))
  741. # (setq b (1+ b)))
  742. # (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
  743. # (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
  744. # (insert
  745. # (format
  746. # (concat "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 3:00\t0\t-\n"
  747. # "Rule\tMorocco\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 2:00\t1:00\tS\n")
  748. # (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
  749. # (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
  750. # (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
  751. # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  752. Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
  753. Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
  754. Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
  755. Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
  756. Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
  757. Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
  758. Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
  759. Rule Morocco 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
  760. Rule Morocco 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S
  761. Rule Morocco 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
  762. Rule Morocco 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
  763. Rule Morocco 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
  764. Rule Morocco 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
  765. Rule Morocco 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
  766. Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
  767. Rule Morocco 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
  768. Rule Morocco 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
  769. Rule Morocco 2009 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
  770. Rule Morocco 2009 only - Aug 21 0:00 0 -
  771. Rule Morocco 2010 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
  772. Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 -
  773. Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
  774. Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 -
  775. Rule Morocco 2012 2013 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
  776. Rule Morocco 2012 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
  777. Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 -
  778. Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S
  779. Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 7 3:00 0 -
  780. Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 S
  781. Rule Morocco 2013 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
  782. Rule Morocco 2014 2021 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
  783. Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 28 3:00 0 -
  784. Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 S
  785. Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 14 3:00 0 -
  786. Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 S
  787. Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 5 3:00 0 -
  788. Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 S
  789. Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 21 3:00 0 -
  790. Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 2 2:00 1:00 S
  791. Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 13 3:00 0 -
  792. Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 17 2:00 1:00 S
  793. Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 5 3:00 0 -
  794. Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 9 2:00 1:00 S
  795. Rule Morocco 2020 only - Apr 19 3:00 0 -
  796. Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S
  797. Rule Morocco 2021 only - Apr 11 3:00 0 -
  798. Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 S
  799. Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 8 2:00 1:00 S
  800. Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 1:00 S
  801. Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 S
  802. Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 S
  803. Rule Morocco 2026 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
  804. Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 -
  805. Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 0 -
  806. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  807. Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
  808. 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
  809. 1:00 - CET 1986
  810. 0:00 Morocco WE%sT
  811. # Western Sahara
  812. #
  813. # From Gwillim Law (2013-10-22):
  814. # A correspondent who is usually well informed about time zone matters
  815. # ... says that Western Sahara observes daylight saving time, just as
  816. # Morocco does.
  817. #
  818. # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-23):
  819. # Assume that this has been true since Western Sahara switched to GMT,
  820. # since most of it was then controlled by Morocco.
  821. Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún
  822. -1:00 - WAT 1976 Apr 14
  823. 0:00 Morocco WE%sT
  824. # Mozambique
  825. #
  826. # Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT.
  827. # Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
  828. # http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
  829. # merely made it official?
  830. #
  831. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  832. Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
  833. 2:00 - CAT
  834. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Blantyre # Malawi
  835. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Bujumbura # Burundi
  836. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Gaborone # Botswana
  837. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Harare # Zimbabwe
  838. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Kigali # Rwanda
  839. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo
  840. Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lusaka # Zambia
  841. # Namibia
  842. # The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger.
  843. # Shanks & Pottenger report no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA.
  844. # From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30):
  845. # http://allafrica.com/stories/200703300178.html
  846. # While the entire country changes its time, Katima Mulilo and other
  847. # settlements in Caprivi unofficially will not because the sun there
  848. # rises and sets earlier compared to other regions. Chief of
  849. # Forecasting Riaan van Zyl explained that the far eastern parts of
  850. # the country are close to 40 minutes earlier in sunrise than the rest
  851. # of the country.
  852. #
  853. # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-31):
  854. # Apparently the Caprivi Strip informally observes Botswana time, but
  855. # we have no details. In the meantime people there can use Africa/Gaborone.
  856. # RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  857. Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
  858. Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
  859. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  860. Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
  861. 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time
  862. 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00
  863. 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
  864. 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence
  865. 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3
  866. 1:00 Namibia WA%sT
  867. # Niger
  868. # See Africa/Lagos.
  869. # Nigeria
  870. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  871. Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
  872. 1:00 - WAT
  873. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic
  874. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo
  875. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala # Cameroon
  876. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa # Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west)
  877. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville # Gabon
  878. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola
  879. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea
  880. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey # Niger
  881. Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo # Benin
  882. # Réunion
  883. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  884. Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
  885. 4:00 - RET # Réunion Time
  886. #
  887. # Crozet Islands also observes Réunion time; see the 'antarctica' file.
  888. #
  889. # Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows.
  890. # The following information about them is taken from
  891. # Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22,
  892. # in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17).
  893. # We have no info about their time zone histories.
  894. #
  895. # Bassas da India - uninhabited
  896. # Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families
  897. # Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958
  898. # Juan de Nova - uninhabited
  899. # Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
  900. # Rwanda
  901. # See Africa/Maputo.
  902. # St Helena
  903. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  904. # The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
  905. # Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
  906. # Ascension: on GMT, say the USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA
  907. # Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously):
  908. # on GMT, says the CIA
  909. # Inaccessible, Nightingale: uninhabited
  910. # São Tomé and Príncipe
  911. # Senegal
  912. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  913. # Seychelles
  914. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  915. Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
  916. 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time
  917. # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
  918. # Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the
  919. # Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory
  920. # in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know
  921. # whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now.
  922. # Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
  923. # Sierra Leone
  924. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  925. # Somalia
  926. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  927. # South Africa
  928. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  929. Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 -
  930. Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
  931. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  932. Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
  933. 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar
  934. 2:00 SA SAST
  935. Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru # Lesotho
  936. Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane # Swaziland
  937. #
  938. # Marion and Prince Edward Is
  939. # scientific station since 1947
  940. # no information
  941. # Sudan
  942. #
  943. # From <http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html>
  944. # Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13),
  945. # also reported by Michaël De Beukelaer-Dossche via Steffen Thorsen:
  946. # Clocks will be moved ahead for 60 minutes all over the Sudan as of noon
  947. # Saturday.... This was announced Thursday by Caretaker State Minister for
  948. # Manpower Abdul-Rahman Nur-Eddin.
  949. #
  950. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  951. Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
  952. Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
  953. Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
  954. Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
  955. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  956. Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
  957. 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00
  958. 3:00 - EAT
  959. # South Sudan
  960. Link Africa/Khartoum Africa/Juba
  961. # Swaziland
  962. # See Africa/Johannesburg.
  963. # Tanzania
  964. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  965. # Togo
  966. # See Africa/Abidjan.
  967. # Tunisia
  968. # From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30):
  969. # My correspondent, Risto Nykänen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST,
  970. # this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News
  971. # <http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html>, in a story attributed to AP
  972. # and dated 2005-04-26, "Tunisia has decided to advance its official time by
  973. # one hour, starting on Sunday, May 1. Henceforth, Tunisian time will be
  974. # UTC+2 instead of UTC+1. The change will take place at 23:00 UTC next
  975. # Saturday." (My translation)
  976. #
  977. # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02):
  978. # La Presse, the first national daily newspaper ...
  979. # http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html
  980. # ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30,
  981. # 1h standard time.
  982. #
  983. # From Atef Loukil (2006-03-28):
  984. # The daylight saving time will be the same each year:
  985. # Beginning : the last Sunday of March at 02:00
  986. # Ending : the last Sunday of October at 03:00 ...
  987. # http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1188&Itemid=50
  988. # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-16):
  989. # According to several news sources, Tunisia will not observe DST this year.
  990. # (Arabic)
  991. # http://www.elbashayer.com/?page=viewn&nid=42546
  992. # http://www.babnet.net/kiwidetail-15295.asp
  993. #
  994. # We have also confirmed this with the US embassy in Tunisia.
  995. # We have a wrap-up about this on the following page:
  996. # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/tunisia-cancels-dst-2009.html
  997. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-17):
  998. # Here is a link to Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency
  999. #
  1000. # Standard time to be kept the whole year long (tap.info.tn):
  1001. #
  1002. # (in English)
  1003. # http://www.tap.info.tn/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26813&Itemid=157
  1004. #
  1005. # (in Arabic)
  1006. # http://www.tap.info.tn/ar/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61240&Itemid=1
  1007. # From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-18):
  1008. # The Tunis Afrique Presse News Agency notice contains this: "This measure is
  1009. # due to the fact that the fasting month of Ramadan coincides with the period
  1010. # concerned by summer time. Therefore, the standard time will be kept
  1011. # unchanged the whole year long." So foregoing DST seems to be an exception
  1012. # (albeit one that may be repeated in the future).
  1013. # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-27):
  1014. # According to some news reports Tunis confirmed not to use DST in 2010
  1015. #
  1016. # (translation):
  1017. # "The Tunisian government has decided to abandon DST, which was scheduled on
  1018. # Sunday...
  1019. # Tunisian authorities had suspended the DST for the first time last year also
  1020. # coincided with the month of Ramadan..."
  1021. #
  1022. # (in Arabic)
  1023. # http://www.moheet.com/show_news.aspx?nid=358861&pg=1
  1024. # http://www.almadenahnews.com/newss/news.php?c=118&id=38036
  1025. # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_tunis02.html
  1026. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
  1027. Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
  1028. Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
  1029. Rule Tunisia 1940 only - Feb 25 23:00s 1:00 S
  1030. Rule Tunisia 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 -
  1031. Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 1:00 S
  1032. Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
  1033. Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S
  1034. Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 17 2:00 0 -
  1035. Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 25 2:00 1:00 S
  1036. Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 -
  1037. Rule Tunisia 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S
  1038. Rule Tunisia 1944 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
  1039. Rule Tunisia 1945 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
  1040. Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Apr 30 0:00s 1:00 S
  1041. Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Sep 24 0:00s 0 -
  1042. Rule Tunisia 1978 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S
  1043. Rule Tunisia 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 -
  1044. Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S
  1045. Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 -
  1046. Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S
  1047. Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S
  1048. Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S
  1049. Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 -
  1050. Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
  1051. Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
  1052. # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
  1053. # more precise 0:09:21.
  1054. # Shanks & Pottenger say the 1911 switch was on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11.
  1055. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
  1056. Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12
  1057. 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
  1058. 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
  1059. # Uganda
  1060. # See Africa/Nairobi.
  1061. # Zambia
  1062. # Zimbabwe
  1063. # See Africa/Maputo.