--- a/components/timezone/africa Mon Feb 16 23:00:11 2015 -0800
+++ b/components/timezone/africa Tue Feb 17 08:47:57 2015 -0800
@@ -6,20 +6,19 @@
# [email protected] for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
#
-# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
+# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
+# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
#
# 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.
+# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted,
+# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
#
# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
@@ -65,7 +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
@@ -146,9 +144,7 @@
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.
@@ -172,9 +168,7 @@
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.
###############################################################################
@@ -387,27 +381,8 @@
# 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.
@@ -451,6 +426,15 @@
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.
@@ -528,11 +512,7 @@
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.
@@ -635,9 +615,7 @@
# 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).
@@ -1049,11 +1027,7 @@
# 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
@@ -1096,11 +1070,7 @@
# 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.
@@ -1206,12 +1176,7 @@
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