# <pre>

# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of

# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.

# 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

# [email protected] for general use in the future).

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):

#

# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is

# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),

# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).

#

# Gwillim Law writes that a good source

# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport

# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),

# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries

# of the IATA's data after 1990.

#

# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for

# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.

#

# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,

# 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 longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).

#

# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT

# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively,

# but Mark R V Murray reports that

# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa,

# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and

# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for

# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''.

# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference.

#

# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago;

# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00,

# and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00.

# This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African

# mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara.

#

# To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency:

#	-1:00	WAT	West Africa Time (no longer used)

#	 0:00	GMT	Greenwich Mean Time

#	 2:00	CAT	Central Africa Time

#	 2:00	SAST	South Africa Standard Time

# and Murray suggests the following abbreviation:

#	 1:00	WAT	West Africa Time

# I realize that this leads to `WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00

# for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of

# until we get more information.

#

# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome!

#	 2:00	WAST	West Africa Summer Time

#	 2:30	BEAT	British East Africa Time (no longer used)

#	 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

Rule	Algeria	1916	only	-	Jun	14	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1916	1919	-	Oct	Sun>=1	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1917	only	-	Mar	24	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1918	only	-	Mar	 9	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1920	only	-	Oct	23	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1921	only	-	Jun	21	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1939	only	-	Sep	11	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1939	only	-	Nov	19	 1:00	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1944	1945	-	Apr	Mon>=1	 2:00	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1944	only	-	Oct	 8	 2:00	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 1:00	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1971	only	-	Apr	25	23:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1971	only	-	Sep	26	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1977	only	-	May	 6	 0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1977	only	-	Oct	21	 0:00	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1978	only	-	Mar	24	 1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1978	only	-	Sep	22	 3:00	0	-

Rule	Algeria	1980	only	-	Apr	25	 0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Algeria	1980	only	-	Oct	31	 2:00	0	-

# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 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

			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11    # Paris Mean Time

			0:00	Algeria	WE%sT	1940 Feb 25 2:00

			1:00	Algeria	CE%sT	1946 Oct  7

			0:00	-	WET	1956 Jan 29

			1:00	-	CET	1963 Apr 14

			0:00	Algeria	WE%sT	1977 Oct 21

			1:00	Algeria	CE%sT	1979 Oct 26

			0:00	Algeria	WE%sT	1981 May

			1:00	-	CET

# Angola

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Luanda	0:52:56	-	LMT	1892

			0:52:04	-	AOT	1911 May 26 # Angola Time

			1:00	-	WAT

# Benin

# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934;

# go with Shanks & Pottenger.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Porto-Novo	0:10:28	-	LMT	1912

			0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26

			1:00	-	WAT

# Botswana

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Gaborone	1:43:40 -	LMT	1885

			2:00	-	CAT	1943 Sep 19 2:00

			2:00	1:00	CAST	1944 Mar 19 2:00

			2:00	-	CAT

# Burkina Faso

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Ouagadougou	-0:06:04 -	LMT	1912

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Burundi

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Bujumbura	1:57:28	-	LMT	1890

			2:00	-	CAT

# Cameroon

# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks & Pottenger.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Douala	0:38:48	-	LMT	1912

			1:00	-	WAT

# Cape Verde

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 -	LMT	1907			# Praia

			-2:00	-	CVT	1942 Sep

			-2:00	1:00	CVST	1945 Oct 15

			-2:00	-	CVT	1975 Nov 25 2:00

			-1:00	-	CVT

# Central African Republic

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Bangui	1:14:20	-	LMT	1912

			1:00	-	WAT

# Chad

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Ndjamena	1:00:12 -	LMT	1912

			1:00	-	WAT	1979 Oct 14

			1:00	1:00	WAST	1980 Mar  8

			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

# Democratic Republic of Congo

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Kinshasa	1:01:12 -	LMT	1897 Nov 9

			1:00	-	WAT

Zone Africa/Lubumbashi	1:49:52 -	LMT	1897 Nov 9

			2:00	-	CAT

# Republic of the Congo

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Brazzaville	1:01:08 -	LMT	1912

			1:00	-	WAT

# Cote D'Ivoire

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Abidjan	-0:16:08 -	LMT	1912

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Djibouti

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Djibouti	2:52:36 -	LMT	1911 Jul

			3:00	-	EAT

###############################################################################

# Egypt

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Egypt	1940	only	-	Jul	15	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1940	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1941	only	-	Apr	15	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1941	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1942	1944	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1942	only	-	Oct	27	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1943	1945	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1945	only	-	Apr	16	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1957	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1957	1958	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1958	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1959	1981	-	May	 1	1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1959	1965	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1966	1994	-	Oct	 1	3:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	1982	only	-	Jul	25	1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1983	only	-	Jul	12	1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1984	1988	-	May	 1	1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1989	only	-	May	 6	1:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1990	1994	-	May	 1	1:00	1:00	S

# IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00.

# Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29.

# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-04-20):

# "...Egypt's interim cabinet decided on Wednesday to cancel daylight

# saving time after a poll posted on its website showed the majority of

# Egyptians would approve the cancellation."

#

# Egypt to cancel daylight saving time

# <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168">

# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/407168

# </a>

# or

# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt04.html">

# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt04.html

# </a>

Rule	Egypt	1995	2010	-	Apr	lastFri	 0:00s	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	1995	2005	-	Sep	lastThu	23:00s	0	-

# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19):

# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports:

# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday

# after observing the daylight saving time since May.

# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf

Rule	Egypt	2006	only	-	Sep	21	23:00s	0	-

# From Dirk Losch (2007-08-14):

# I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight

# saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07.

# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-08-15): [The following agree:]

# http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm 

# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53

# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-04): The official information...:

# http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm

Rule	Egypt	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=1	23:00s	0	-

# From Abdelrahman Hassan (2007-09-06):

# Due to the Hijri (lunar Islamic calendar) year being 11 days shorter

# than the year of the Gregorian calendar, Ramadan shifts earlier each

# year. This year it will be observed September 13 (September is quite

# hot in Egypt), and the idea is to make fasting easier for workers by

# shifting business hours one hour out of daytime heat. Consequently,

# unless discontinued, next DST may end Thursday 28 August 2008.

# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):

# For lack of better info, assume the new rule is last Thursday in August.

# From Petr Machata (2009-04-06):

# The following appeared in Red Hat bugzilla[1] (edited):

#

# > $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009

# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu =

# Apr 23

# > 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri =

# Apr 24

# > 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800

# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu =

# Aug 27

# > 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800

# > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu =

# Aug 27

# > 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

#

# > end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59=

# :59)

# > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/

#

# timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that.

#

# [1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263">

# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263

# </a>

# [2] <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53">

# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53

# </a>

# [3] <a href="http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/">

# http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/

# </a>

# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-20):

# In 2009 (and for the next several years), Ramadan ends before the fourth

# Thursday in September; Egypt is expected to revert to the last Thursday

# in September.

# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-11):

# We have been able to confirm the August change with the Egyptian Cabinet 

# Information and Decision Support Center:

# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html">

# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-dst-ends-2009.html

# </a>

# 

# The Middle East News Agency

# <a href="http://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx">

# http://www.mena.org.eg/index.aspx

# </a>

# also reports "Egypt starts winter time on August 21"

# today in article numbered "71, 11/08/2009 12:25 GMT." 

# Only the title above is available without a subscription to their service,

# and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine

# (at least today).

# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20):

# According to News from Egypt -  Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has

# decided that Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during

# Ramadan.

#

# Arabic translation:

# "Clocks to go back during Ramadan--and then forward again"

# <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again">

# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again

# </a>

# or

# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html">

# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html

# </a>

Rule	Egypt	2008	only	-	Aug	lastThu	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Egypt	2009	only	-	Aug	20	23:00s	0	-

Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Aug	11	0:00	0	-

Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	10	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	lastThu	23:00s	0	-

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Cairo	2:05:00 -	LMT	1900 Oct

			2:00	Egypt	EE%sT

# Equatorial Guinea

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Malabo	0:35:08 -	LMT	1912

			0:00	-	GMT	1963 Dec 15

			1:00	-	WAT

# 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 (2006-03-22):

# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones

# between 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890.

# We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera.

# 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

# Gabon

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Libreville	0:37:48 -	LMT	1912

			1:00	-	WAT

# Gambia

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Banjul	-1:06:36 -	LMT	1912

			-1:06:36 -	BMT	1935	# Banjul Mean Time

			-1:00	-	WAT	1964

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Ghana

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present'';

# go with Shanks & Pottenger.

Rule	Ghana	1936	1942	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0:20	GHST

Rule	Ghana	1936	1942	-	Dec	31	0:00	0	GMT

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Accra	-0:00:52 -	LMT	1918

			 0:00	Ghana	%s

# Guinea

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Conakry	-0:54:52 -	LMT	1912

			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26

			-1:00	-	WAT	1960

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Guinea-Bissau

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Bissau	-1:02:20 -	LMT	1911 May 26

			-1:00	-	WAT	1975

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Kenya

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Nairobi	2:27:16	-	LMT	1928 Jul

			3:00	-	EAT	1930

			2:30	-	BEAT	1940

			3:00	-	EAT

# Lesotho

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Maseru	1:50:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar

			2:00	-	SAST	1943 Sep 19 2:00

			2:00	1:00	SAST	1944 Mar 19 2:00

			2:00	-	SAST

# Liberia

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):

# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch

# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.

# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.

# Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan;

# go with Shanks & Pottenger.

# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and

# Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Monrovia	-0:43:08 -	LMT	1882

			-0:43:08 -	MMT	1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time

			-0:44:30 -	LRT	1972 May # Liberia Time

			 0:00	-	GMT

###############################################################################

# Libya

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Libya	1951	only	-	Oct	14	2:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1952	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Libya	1953	only	-	Oct	 9	2:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1954	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Libya	1955	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1956	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Libya	1982	1984	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1982	1985	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-

Rule	Libya	1985	only	-	Apr	 6	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1986	only	-	Apr	 4	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1986	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-

Rule	Libya	1987	1989	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Libya	1987	1989	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Tripoli	0:52:44 -	LMT	1920

			1:00	Libya	CE%sT	1959

			2:00	-	EET	1982

			1:00	Libya	CE%sT	1990 May  4

# The following entries are from Shanks & Pottenger;

# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors.

			2:00	-	EET	1996 Sep 30

			1:00	-	CET	1997 Apr  4

			1:00	1:00	CEST	1997 Oct  4

			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

# Malawi

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Blantyre	2:20:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar

			2:00	-	CAT

# Mali

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Africa/Bamako	-0:32:00 -	LMT	1912

			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26

			-1:00	-	WAT	1960 Jun 20

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Mauritania

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Africa/Nouakchott	-1:03:48 -	LMT	1912

			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26

			-1:00	-	WAT	1960 Nov 28

			 0:00	-	GMT

# Mauritius

# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-06-25):

# Mauritius plans to observe DST from 2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31 on a trial

# basis....

# It seems that Mauritius observed daylight saving time from 1982-10-10 to 

# 1983-03-20 as well, but that was not successful....

# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/mauritius-daylight-saving-time.html

# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-06-25):

# http://economicdevelopment.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.a42b24128104d9845dabddd154508a0c/?content_id=0a7cee8b5d69a110VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD

# From Arthur David Olson (2008-06-30):

# The www.timeanddate.com article cited by Steffen Thorsen notes that "A

# final decision has yet to be made on the times that daylight saving

# would begin and end on these dates." As a place holder, use midnight.

# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):

# Follow Thorsen on DST in 1982/1983, instead of Shanks & Pottenger.

# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-07-10):

# According to

# <a href="http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216">

# http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=111216

# </a>

# (in French), Mauritius will start and end their DST a few days earlier

# than previously announced (2008-11-01 to 2009-03-31).  The new start

# date is 2008-10-26 at 02:00 and the new end date is 2009-03-27 (no time

# given, but it is probably at either 2 or 3 wall clock time).

# 

# A little strange though, since the article says that they moved the date 

# to align itself with Europe and USA which also change time on that date, 

# but that means they have not paid attention to what happened in 

# USA/Canada last year (DST ends first Sunday in November). I also wonder 

# why that they end on a Friday, instead of aligning with Europe which 

# changes two days later.

# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11):

# Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving

# time:  Energy conservation?"-# No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally

# published on Monday, June 30, 2008...

#

# I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction

# de l'heure d'ete" stating that DST in Mauritius starting on October 26

# and ending on March 27, 2009 is the most recent one.

# ...

# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html">

# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mauritius02.html

# </a>