On 11/6/20 1:59 PM, Michael H Deckers wrote:
-Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr +Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 1
but the source is quite clear that it should be +Zone America/Belize -5:52:43 - LMT 1912 Apr 1
Unfortunately it's not so clear. Here's a citation to the source: # Definition of Time Ordinance, 1927 (No.4 of 1927) [1927-04-01] # Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1927, p 19-20 # https://books.google.com/books?id=LqEpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA19 It says that standard time was established as -06 on 1912-04-01, and that -06 was 00:07:17.27 later than the local mean time at Belize. However, by my calculations -05:52:42.73 is longitude 88° 10′ 40.95″ W, which Google Maps says is in the ocean east of Belize city, so this was not LMT in Belize city. To my mind what matters here is what was the legal time in Belize city before 1912-04-01. If there was no law or it was just LMT, no change needs to be made. If it was -05:52:42.73 then we need to find out when that legal time was instituted (perhaps for all of British Honduras?), and insert a transition from LMT to -05:52:42.73 at the appropriate date. One constraint we like to follow is that the LMT longitude corresponds to the longitude in zone1970.tab.