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author | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-12-25 15:16:38 +0000 |
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committer | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-12-25 15:16:38 +0000 |
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contrib/tzdata: import tzdata 2020e
Changes: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2020e/NEWS
MFC after: insta-MFC
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1 files changed, 202 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/africa b/contrib/tzdata/africa index 566436b319e4..59cf501ec954 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/africa +++ b/contrib/tzdata/africa @@ -386,36 +386,87 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct # Ghana -# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-30): -# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to "the present"; -# Shanks & Pottenger say 1936 to 1942 with 20 minutes of DST, -# with transitions on 09-01 and 12-31 at 00:00. -# Page 33 of Parish GCB, Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 1066. Gold -# Coast. Report for 1919. (March 1921), OCLC 784024077 -# http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/africana/books2011-05/5530214/5530214_1919/5530214_1919_opt.pdf -# lists the Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919, No. 18, -# "to advance the time observed locally by the space of twenty minutes -# during the last four months of each year; the object in view being -# to extend during those months the period of daylight-time available -# for evening recreation after office hours." -# Vanessa Ogle, The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950 (2015), p 33, -# writes "In 1919, the Gold Coast (Ghana as of 1957) made Greenwich -# time its legal time and simultaneously legalized a summer time of -# UTC - 00:20 minutes from March to October."; a footnote lists -# the ordinance as being dated 1919-11-24. -# The Crown Colonist, Volume 12 (1942), p 176, says "the Government -# intend advancing Gold Coast time half an hour ahead of G.M.T. -# The actual date of the alteration has not yet been announced." -# These sources are incomplete and contradictory. Possibly what is -# now Ghana observed different DST regimes in different years. For -# lack of better info, use Shanks except treat the minus sign as a -# typo, and assume DST started in 1920 not 1936. +# From P Chan (2020-11-20): +# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02] +# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 +# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the +# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876. +# +# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24] +# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 +# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST. +# +# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214) +# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate) +# Vol. II (1937), p 2328 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328 +# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22 +# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May. +# +# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942 +# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48 +# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes. +# +# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, +# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 +# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30. +# +# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of +# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 +# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 +# This Ordinance abolished DST. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35 +# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset. +# +# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264) +# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380 +# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29] +# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the +# Year 1956, p 83 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 +# This Ordinance abolished DST. + # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 - -Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 - +Rule Ghana 1919 only - Nov 24 0:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT +Rule Ghana 1920 1939 - Sep 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1940 1941 - May 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1950 1955 - Sep 1 2:00 0:30 +0030 +Rule Ghana 1951 1956 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 - 0:00 Ghana GMT/+0020 +Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2 + 0:00 Ghana %s 1942 Feb 8 + 0:30 - +0030 1946 Jan 6 + 0:00 Ghana %s # Guinea # See Africa/Abidjan. @@ -433,11 +484,54 @@ Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u 0:00 - GMT # Kenya + +# From P Chan (2020-10-24): +# +# The standard time of GMT+2:30 was adopted in the East Africa Protectorate.... +# [The Official Gazette, 1908-05-01, p 274] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=e-cAC-sjPSEC&pg=PA274 +# +# At midnight on 30 June 1928 the clocks throughout Kenya was put forward +# half an hour by the Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1928. +# https://gazettes.africa/archive/ke/1928/ke-government-gazette-dated-1928-05-11-no-28.pdf +# [Ordinance No. 11 of 1928, The Offical Gazette, 1928-06-26, p 813] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=2S0S6os32ZUC&pg=PA813 +# +# The 1928 ordinance was repealed by the Alteration of Time (repeal) Ordinance, +# 1929 and the time was restored to GMT+2:30 at midnight on 4 January 1930. +# [Ordinance No. 97 of 1929, The Official Gazette, 1929-12-31, p 2701] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=_g18jIZQlwwC&pg=PA2701 +# +# The Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1936 changed the time to GMT+2:45 +# and repealed the previous ordinance at midnight on 31 December 1936. +# [The Official Gazette, 1936-07-21, p 705] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=K7j41z0aC5wC&pg=PA705 +# +# The Defence (Amendment of Laws No. 120) Regulations changed the time +# to GMT+3 at midnight on 31 July 1942. +# [Kenya Official Gazette Supplement No. 32, 1942-07-21, p 331] +# https://books.google.com/books?hl=zh-TW&id=c_E-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA331 +# The provision of the 1936 ordinance was not repealed and was later +# incorporated in the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance in 1948. +# Although it was overridden by the 1942 regulations. +# [The Laws of Kenya in force on 1948-09-21, Title I, Chapter 1, 31] +# https://dds.crl.edu/item/217517 (p.101) +# In 1950 the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance was amended to adopt +# GMT+3 permanently as the 1942 regulations were due to expire on 10 December. +# https://books.google.com/books?id=jvR8mUDAwR0C&pg=PA787 +# [Ordinance No. 44 of 1950, Kenya Ordinances 1950, Vol. XXIX, p 294] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=-_dQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA294 + +# From Paul Eggert (2020-10-24): +# The 1908-05-01 announcement does not give an effective date, +# so just say "1908 May". + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul - 3:00 - EAT 1930 - 2:30 - +0230 1940 - 2:45 - +0245 1960 +Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1908 May + 2:30 - +0230 1928 Jun 30 24:00 + 3:00 - EAT 1930 Jan 4 24:00 + 2:30 - +0230 1936 Dec 31 24:00 + 2:45 - +0245 1942 Jul 31 24:00 3:00 - EAT Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea @@ -1224,8 +1318,69 @@ Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8 # See Africa/Lagos. # Nigeria + +# From P Chan (2020-12-03): +# GMT was adopted as the standard time of Lagos on 1905-07-01. +# Lagos Weekly Record, 1905-06-24, p 3 +# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31558#?c=0&m=668&s=0&cv=2&r=0&xywh=1446%2C5221%2C1931%2C1235 +# says "It is officially notified that on and after the 1st of July 1905 +# Greenwich Mean Solar Time will be adopted thought the Colony and +# Protectorate, and that it will be necessary to put all clocks 13 minutes and +# 35 seconds back, recording local mean time." +# +# It seemed that Lagos returned to LMT on 1908-07-01. +# [The Lagos Standard], 1908-07-01, p 5 +# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31556#?c=0&m=78&s=0&cv=4&r=0&xywh=-92%2C3590%2C3944%2C2523 +# says "Scarcely have the people become accustomed to this new time, when +# another official notice has now appeared announcing that from and after the +# 1st July next, return will be made to local mean time." +# +# From P Chan (2020-11-27): +# On 1914-01-01, standard time of GMT+0:30 was adopted for the unified Nigeria. +# Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 878. Nigeria. Report for 1914. (April 1916), +# p 27 +# https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1914/3064634_1914_opt.pdf#page=27 +# "On January 1st [1914], a universal standard time for Nigeria was adopted, +# viz., half an hour fast on Greenwich mean time, corresponding to the meridian +# 7 [degrees] 30' E. long." +# Lloyd's Register of Shipping (1915) says "Hitherto the time observed in Lagos +# was the local mean time. On 1st January, 1914, standard time for the whole of +# Nigeria was introduced ... Lagos time has been advanced about 16 minutes +# accordingly." +# +# In 1919, standard time was changed to GMT+1. +# Interpretation Ordinance (Cap 2) +# The Laws of Nigeria, Containing the Ordinances of Nigeria, in Force on the +# 1st Day of January, 1923, Vol.I [p 16] +# https://books.google.com/books?id=BOMrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA16 +# "The expression 'Standard time' means standard time as used in Nigeria: +# namely, 60 minutes in advance of Greenwich mean time. (As amended by 18 of +# 1919, s. 2.)" +# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-10): +# The Lagos Weekly Record, 1919-09-20, p 3 details discussion on the first +# reading of this Bill by the Legislative Council of the Colony of Nigeria on +# Thursday 1919-08-28: +# http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31558?terms&item_id=303484#?m=1118&c=1&s=0&cv=2&r=0&xywh=1261%2C3408%2C2994%2C1915 +# "The proposal is that the Globe should be divided into twelve zones East and +# West of Greenwich, of one hour each, Nigeria falling into the zone with a +# standard of one hour fast on Greenwich Mean Time. Nigeria standard time is +# now 30 minutes in advance of Greenwich Mean Time ... according to the new +# proposal, standard time will be advanced another 30 minutes". It was further +# proposed that the firing of the time guns likewise be adjusted by 30 minutes +# to compensate. +# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-10), per P Chan (2020-12-11): +# The text of Ordinance 18 of 1919, published in Nigeria Gazette, Vol 6, No 52, +# shows that the change was assented to the following day and took effect "on +# the 1st day of September, 1919." +# Nigeria Gazette and Supplements 1919 Jan-Dec, Reference: 73266B-40, +# img 245-246 +# https://microform.digital/boa/collections/77/volumes/539/nigeria-lagos-1887-1919 + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep +Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:35 - LMT 1905 Jul 1 + 0:00 - GMT 1908 Jul 1 + 0:13:35 - LMT 1914 Jan 1 + 0:30 - +0030 1919 Sep 1 1:00 - WAT Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo @@ -1298,8 +1453,21 @@ Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884 # See Africa/Abidjan. # Seychelles + +# From P Chan (2020-11-27): +# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01. +# +# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237) +# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 +# +# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): +# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689 +# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st +# January, 1907." + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria +Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1907 Jan 1 # Victoria 4:00 - +04 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): # Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the |