I'm forwarding this message from Riad M. Hossen, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Riad M. Hossen Ally [mailto:riad@intnet.mu] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:41 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: MAURITIUS - Summertime update with link to official government cabinet decision Sir/Madam, Thank you for the various updates you provide to the online community. We have downloaded tz*2008e.tar_2.gz and found in the data 'africa' 8.15 file that: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 27 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, Rodriguez # no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius With the online information described below, we would like to bring to your attention that: The Government of Mauritius weblink http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/pmosite/menuitem.4ca0efdee47462e7440a600248a52... Cabinet Decision of July 18th, 2008 states as follows: 4. ...Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United States of America. It will start at two o'clock in the morning on the last Sunday of October and will end at two o'clock in the morning on the last Sunday of March the following year. The summer time for the year 2008 - 2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008 and end on 29 March 2009. Changes to the 'africa' file is typed in blue below: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mauritius 1982 only - Oct 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 1983 only - Mar 21 0:00 0 - Rule Mauritius 2008 only - Oct 26 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Mauritius 2009 only - Mar 29 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis 4:00 Mauritius MU%sT # Mauritius Time # Agalega Is, St. Brandon Is, Rodrigues Is # same time zone as Indian/Mauritius We would be very grateful if you could kindly post a new version of the tz*2008e compressed tar balls on your ftp server. Thanking you in anticipation, and remain with, Best compliments and regards, Riad.