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@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912 # Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on. # The International Hydrographic Bulletin, 1932-33, p 63 says that # Sierra Leone would advance its clocks by 20 minutes on 1933-10-01. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 -0020 Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -01 Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 +01 @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe-à-Pitre # Pottenger data. The post-1970 entries have been corrected, but the # pre-1970 entries are unchecked and probably have errors. # -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D @@ -459,7 +459,34 @@ Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 3:00 - +03 # Bahrain -Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Manamah +# +# From Paul Eggert (2020-07-23): +# Most of this data comes from: +# Stewart A. Why Gulf Standard Time is far from standard: the fascinating story +# behind the time zone's invention. The National (Abu Dhabi). 2020-07-22. +# https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/why-gulf-standard-time-is-far-from-standard-the-fascinating-story-behind-the-time-zone-s-invention-1.1052589 +# Stewart writes that before 1941 some companies in Bahrain were at +0330 and +# others at +0323. Reginald George Alban, a British political agent based in +# Manama, worked to standardize this, and from 1941-07-20 Bahrain was at +# +0330. However, BOAC asked that clocks be moved to gain more light at day's +# end, so Bahrain switched to +04 on 1944-01-01. +# +# Re the 1941 transition, Stewart privately sent me this citation: +# "File 16/53 Enquiries Re: Calculation of Local Time", British Library: India +# Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/2/1564, in Qatar Digital Library +# https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00012b +# It says there was no real standard in Bahrain before 1941-07-20. +# +0330 was used by steamers of the British India Co, by Petroleum Concessions +# and by Cable & Wireless; +0323 was used by the Eastern Bank Ltd, BOAC, and +# Bahrein Petroleum (Bapco), and California Arabian Standard Oil Co (Casoc) +# adopted DST effective 1941-05-24. Alban suggested adopting DST, R.B. Coomb +# of C&W countersuggested +0330, and although C.A. Rodstrom of Casoc (formerly +# of Bapco) stated that Bahrain had formerly used +0330 before Bapco arrived +# but Bapco switched to +0323 because of "constant confusion", the consensus +# was +0330. The government adopted +0330 in 1941-07-20 and companies seem to +# have switched by 08-01. No time of day was given for the 1940s transitions. +Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1941 Jul 20 # Manamah + 3:30 - +0330 1944 Jan 1 4:00 - +04 1972 Jun 3:00 - +03 |