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# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
#
-# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
-# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
-#
# European-style abbreviations are commonly used along the Mediterranean.
# For sub-Saharan Africa abbreviations were less standardized.
# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
@@ -153,15 +150,6 @@ Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912 # N'Djamena
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
0:00 - GMT
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako # Mali
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul # Gambia
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry # Guinea
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar # Senegal
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown # Sierra Leone
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome # Togo
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott # Mauritania
-Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou # Burkina Faso
-Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena # St Helena
# Djibouti
# See Africa/Nairobi.
@@ -381,93 +369,8 @@ Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
# Gabon
# See Africa/Lagos.
-# Gambia
-# See Africa/Abidjan.
-
+# The Gambia
# Ghana
-
-# From P Chan (2020-11-20):
-# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02]
-# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70
-# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the
-# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876.
-#
-# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24]
-# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75
-# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST.
-#
-# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214)
-# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate)
-# Vol. II (1937), p 2328
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328
-# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance.
-#
-# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22
-# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May.
-#
-# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942
-# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48
-# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes.
-#
-# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations,
-# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87
-# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30.
-#
-# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of
-# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256
-# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations.
-#
-# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69
-# This Ordinance abolished DST.
-#
-# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22]
-# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
-# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35
-# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset.
-#
-# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264)
-# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380
-# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance.
-#
-# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29]
-# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the
-# Year 1956, p 83
-# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83
-# This Ordinance abolished DST.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Ghana 1919 only - Nov 24 0:00 0:20 +0020
-Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT
-Rule Ghana 1920 1939 - Sep 1 2:00 0:20 +0020
-Rule Ghana 1940 1941 - May 1 2:00 0:20 +0020
-Rule Ghana 1950 1955 - Sep 1 2:00 0:30 +0030
-Rule Ghana 1951 1956 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT
-
-# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2
- 0:00 Ghana %s 1942 Feb 8
- 0:30 - +0030 1946 Jan 6
- 0:00 Ghana %s
-
# Guinea
# See Africa/Abidjan.
@@ -533,15 +436,6 @@ Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1908 May
2:30 - +0230 1936 Dec 31 24:00
2:45 - +0245 1942 Jul 31 24:00
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.
@@ -732,7 +626,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# See Africa/Nairobi.
# Morocco
-# See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
+# See Africa/Ceuta for Spanish Morocco.
# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09):
# Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between
@@ -1228,13 +1122,6 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
2:00 - CAT
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Blantyre # Malawi
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Bujumbura # Burundi
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Gaborone # Botswana
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Harare # Zimbabwe
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Kigali # Rwanda
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo
-Link Africa/Maputo Africa/Lusaka # Zambia
# Namibia
@@ -1382,23 +1269,12 @@ Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:35 - LMT 1905 Jul 1
0:13:35 - LMT 1914 Jan 1
0:30 - +0030 1919 Sep 1
1:00 - WAT
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui # Central African Republic
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala # Cameroon
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa # Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west)
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville # Gabon
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda # Angola
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo # Equatorial Guinea
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey # Niger
-Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo # Benin
# Réunion
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
4:00 - +04
#
-# Crozet Islands also observes Réunion time; see the 'antarctica' file.
-#
# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows.
# The following information about them is taken from
# Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22,
@@ -1490,8 +1366,6 @@ Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar
2:00 SA SAST
-Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru # Lesotho
-Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane # Eswatini
#
# Marion and Prince Edward Is
# scientific station since 1947
@@ -1527,12 +1401,13 @@ Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
3:00 - EAT 2017 Nov 1
2:00 - CAT
+# South Sudan
+
# From Steffen Thorsen (2021-01-18):
# "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1
# hour on February 1, 2021...."
# from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
-# South Sudan
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931
2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00
@@ -1637,7 +1512,7 @@ Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 -
Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Tunisia 2006 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-# See Europe/Paris for PMT-related transitions.
+# See Europe/Paris commentary for PMT-related transitions.
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12
0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time