--- a/components/timezone/africa Wed Mar 27 10:16:36 2013 -0700
+++ b/components/timezone/africa Wed Mar 27 14:15:49 2013 -0500
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# 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).
+# [email protected] for general use in the future).
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
#
@@ -424,6 +424,20 @@
# Libya
+# From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
+# Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
+# http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
+# Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc
+#
+# Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
+# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
+# Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
+# The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
+# (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
+# lastFri instead of lastSun).
+
# 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 -
@@ -438,17 +452,21 @@
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 -
+Rule Libya 1997 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1997 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 2013 max - Mar lastFri 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 2013 max - Oct lastFri 2:00 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 1996 and 1997 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
+ 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1997 Oct 4
+ 2:00 - EET 2012 Nov 10 2:00
+ 1:00 Libya CE%sT
# Madagascar
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]