diff -r 3b4c0602c322 -r 7c833611f21f components/timezone/africa --- a/components/timezone/africa Thu Mar 21 10:52:48 2013 -0700 +++ b/components/timezone/africa Fri Mar 22 09:41:03 2013 -0600 @@ -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 -# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). +# tz@iana.org 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]