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Move out-of-scope UTC+3 African zones to 'backzone'.

* africa (Africa/Addis_Ababa, Africa/Asmara, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
(Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Kampala, Africa/Mogadishu, Indian/Antananarivo)
(Indian/Comoro, Indian/Mayotte):
Change these from zones to links to Africa/Nairobi.
* backzone: Move the old data here.
* checktab.awk (tztab): Remove special cases for these zones.
* NEWS: Document the above.
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Paul Eggert
2014-10-31 20:15:18 -07:00
parent bee436b03e
commit 6f6f20f0bc
4 changed files with 84 additions and 60 deletions

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@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
# 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
# 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
# 3:00 EAT East Africa Time
# 4:00 EAST East Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
# Algeria
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@ -145,9 +144,7 @@ Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena
1:00 - WAT
# Comoros
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Democratic Republic of the Congo
# See Africa/Lagos for the western part and Africa/Maputo for the eastern.
@ -171,9 +168,7 @@ Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Sao_Tome # São Tomé and Príncipe
Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena # St Helena
# Djibouti
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
###############################################################################
@ -386,27 +381,8 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
# See Africa/Lagos.
# Eritrea
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Asmara 2:35:32 - LMT 1870
2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmara Mean Time
2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
3:00 - EAT
# Ethiopia
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-31):
# Like the Swahili of Kenya and Tanzania, many Ethiopians keep a
# 12-hour clock starting at our 06:00, so their "8 o'clock" is our
# 02:00 or 14:00. Keep this in mind when you ask the time in Amharic.
#
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time
# zones between 1870 and 1890, that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in
# 1890, and that they switched to 3:00 on 1936-05-05. Perhaps 38E50
# was for Adis Dera. Quite likely the Shanks data entries are wrong
# anyway.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Gabon
# See Africa/Lagos.
@ -450,6 +426,15 @@ Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
2:30 - BEAT 1940
2:45 - BEAUT 1960
3:00 - EAT
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa # Ethiopia
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara # Eritrea
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala # Uganda
Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu # Somalia
Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo # Madagascar
Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
# Lesotho
# See Africa/Johannesburg.
@ -527,11 +512,7 @@ Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
2:00 - EET
# Madagascar
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul
3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s
3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Malawi
# See Africa/Maputo.
@ -634,9 +615,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
# Mayotte
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Morocco
# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
@ -1048,11 +1027,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
# See Africa/Abidjan.
# Somalia
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov
3:00 - EAT 1931
2:30 - BEAT 1957
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# South Africa
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@ -1095,11 +1070,7 @@ Link Africa/Khartoum Africa/Juba
# See Africa/Johannesburg.
# Tanzania
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
3:00 - EAT 1948
2:45 - BEAUT 1961
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Togo
# See Africa/Abidjan.
@ -1205,12 +1176,7 @@ Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12
1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
# Uganda
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul
3:00 - EAT 1930
2:30 - BEAT 1948
2:45 - BEAUT 1957
3:00 - EAT
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Zambia
# Zimbabwe