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Improve commentary for time long ago in India.

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* asia: Move commentary about Portuguese India from here ...
* backzone: ... to here. Add comment about 19th-century Madras time.
* NEWS: Document this.
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Paul Eggert
2014-08-21 23:39:21 -07:00
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@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Some broken URLs have been fixed in the commentary. (Thanks to
Lester Caine.)
Commentary about Philippines DST has been updated.
Commentary about Philippines DST has been updated, and commentary
on pre-1970 time in India has been added.
Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700

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@@ -879,13 +879,6 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1
9:00 - TLT
# India
# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26)
# http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
# Portuguese India switched to GMT+5 on 1912-01-01.
# Ignore this as it predates our 1970 cutoff.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?

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@@ -261,6 +261,15 @@ Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956
12:00 NZ NZ%sT
Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole
# India
# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-21):
# In tomorrow's The Hindu, Nitya Menon reports that India had two civil time
# zones starting in 1884, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta, and that railways
# used a third time zone based on Madras time (80 deg. 18'30" E). Also,
# in 1881 Bombay briefly switched to Madras time, but switched back. See:
# http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/madras-375-when-madras-clocked-the-time/article6339393.ece
#Zone Asia/Chennai [not enough info to complete]
# China
# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
@@ -288,6 +297,13 @@ Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
5:00 - KAST 1980 May
8:00 PRC C%sT
# India
# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26)
# http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
# Portuguese India switched to GMT+5 on 1912-01-01.
#Zone Asia/Panaji [not enough info to complete]
# Israel
Zone Asia/Tel_Aviv 2:19:04 - LMT 1880
2:21 - JMT 1918