@@ -126,17 +126,16 @@ Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 16
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# Cape Verde / Cabo Verde
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#
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- # From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
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- # Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to +02.
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- # For now, ignore that and follow the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
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- # (see Europe/Lisbon).
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+ # From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
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+ # For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon.
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+ # Shanks gives 1907 instead for the transition to -02.
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#
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1912 Jan 01 2:00u # Praia
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- -2:00 - -02 1942 Sep
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- -2:00 1:00 -01 1945 Oct 15
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- -2:00 - -02 1975 Nov 25 2:00
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- -1:00 - -01
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+ -2:00 - %z 1942 Sep
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+ -2:00 1:00 %z 1945 Oct 15
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+ -2:00 - %z 1975 Nov 25 2:00
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+ -1:00 - %z
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# Chad
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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# Guinea-Bissau
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#
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- # From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
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- # Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
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- # evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
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- # (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect.
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+ # From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
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+ # For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon.
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#
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u
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- -1:00 - -01 1975
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+ -1:00 - %z 1975
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0:00 - GMT
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# Comoros
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1908 May
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- 2:30 - +0230 1928 Jun 30 24:00
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+ 2:30 - %z 1928 Jun 30 24:00
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3:00 - EAT 1930 Jan 4 24:00
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- 2:30 - +0230 1936 Dec 31 24:00
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- 2:45 - +0245 1942 Jul 31 24:00
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+ 2:30 - %z 1936 Dec 31 24:00
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+ 2:45 - %z 1942 Jul 31 24:00
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# Liberia
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Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
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- 4:00 Mauritius +04/+05
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+ 4:00 Mauritius %z
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# Agalega Is, Rodriguez
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# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
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@@ -1094,10 +1091,10 @@ Rule Morocco 2087 only - May 11 2:00 0 -
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
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- 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 1984 Mar 16
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- 1:00 - +01 1986
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- 0:00 Morocco +00/+01 2018 Oct 28 3:00
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- 1:00 Morocco +01/+00
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+ 0:00 Morocco %z 1984 Mar 16
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+ 1:00 - %z 1986
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+ 0:00 Morocco %z 2018 Oct 28 3:00
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+ 1:00 Morocco %z
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+ -1:00 - %z 1976 Apr 14
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+ 1:00 Morocco %z
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# Botswana
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# Burundi
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# Zambia
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# Zimbabwe
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- # Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT.
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- # Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
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- # https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
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- # merely made it official?
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+ # From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01):
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+ # For timestamps before Mozambique's independence, see commentary for
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+ # Europe/Lisbon.
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+ #
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+ # From Paul Eggert (2024-05-24):
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+ # The London Gazette, 1903-04-03, page 2245, says that
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+ # as of 1903-03-03 a time ball at the port of Lourenço Marques
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+ # (as Maputo was then called) was dropped daily at 13:00:00 LMT,
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+ # corresponding to 22:49:41.7 GMT, so local time was +02:10:18.3.
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+ # Conversely, the newspaper South Africa, 1909-02-09, page 321,
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+ # says the port had just installed an apparatus that communicated
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+ # "from the controlling clock in the new Observatory at Reuben Point ...
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+ # exact mean South African time, i.e., 30 deg., or 2 hours East of Greenwich".
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+ # Although Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT,
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+ # evidently the port transitioned to CAT after 1903-03-03 but before
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+ # the Portuguese legal transition of 1912-01-01 (see Europe/Lisbon commentary).
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+ # For lack of better info, list 1909 as the transition date.
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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+ Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:18 - LMT 1909
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# Namibia
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# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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# São Tomé and Príncipe
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