* africa (Africa/Maputo), europe (Europe/Zurich): Add #STDOFF comments for two zones with well-sourced standard time that was not an integral number of seconds away from UT. This does not change the TZif output files. --- africa | 5 +++-- europe | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/africa b/africa index 695d66ed..4f0d1e7b 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -1101,11 +1101,11 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún # Zambia # Zimbabwe # -# From Paul Eggert (2024-04-09): +# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-24): # The London Gazette, 1903-04-03, page 2245, says that # as of 1903-03-03 a time ball at the port of Lourenço Marques # (as Maputo was then called) was dropped daily at 13:00:00 LMT, -# corresponding to 22:49:41.7 GMT; round this to UT+2:10:18. +# corresponding to 22:49:41.7 GMT, so local time was +02:10:18.3. # Conversely, the newspaper South Africa, 1909-02-09, page 321, # says the port had just installed an apparatus that communicated # "from the controlling clock in the new Observatory at Reuben Point ... @@ -1116,6 +1116,7 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan # El Aaiún # For lack of better info, list 1909 as the transition date. # # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] + #STDOFF 2:10:18.3 Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:18 - LMT 1909 2:00 - CAT diff --git a/europe b/europe index 9ea14914..2f180e64 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -3486,8 +3486,8 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. # but if no one is present after 11 at night, could be postponed until one # hour before the beginning of service. -# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-11): -# Round BMT to the nearest even second, 0:29:46. +# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-24): +# Express BMT as 0:29:45.500, approximately the same precision 7° 26' 22.50". # # We can find no reliable source for Shanks's assertion that all of Switzerland # except Geneva switched to Bern Mean Time at 00:00 on 1848-09-12. This book: @@ -3526,6 +3526,7 @@ Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Mon>=1 1:00 1:00 S Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Mon>=1 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Jul 16 # See above comment. + #STDOFF 0:29:45.500 0:29:46 - BMT 1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 1:00 EU CE%sT -- 2.43.0