From e30fe68d4448a79d8ac95bf6ae81bb344328eb3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 15:17:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Predict Morocco spring-forward after Eid al-Fitr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (Thanks to Milamber.) * NEWS: Mention this. * africa (Morocco): Change ‘1+’ to ‘+ 2’ in the commented-out code, and alter the prdicted rules accordingly for 2023-2085. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ africa | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ac491e1..8362dcc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes to future timestamps + + Morocco's spring-forward after Ramadan is now predicted to occur + no sooner than two days after Ramadan, instead of one day. + (Thanks to Milamber.) The first altered prediction is for 2023, + now predicted to spring-forward on April 30 instead of April 23. + Changes to code The undocumented and ineffective tzsetwall function has been diff --git a/africa b/africa index 724744f..5d3beb0 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -875,17 +875,30 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis # https://maroc-diplomatique.net/maroc-le-retour-a-lheure-gmt-est-prevu-dimanche-prochain/ # http://aujourdhui.ma/actualite/gmt1-retour-a-lheure-normale-dimanche-prochain-1 # -# From Paul Eggert (2020-04-14): +# From Milamber (2020-05-31) +# In Morocco (where I live), the end of Ramadan (Arabic month) is followed by +# the Eid al-Fitr, and concretely it's 1 or 2 day offs for the people (with +# traditional visiting of family, big lunches/dinners, etc.). So for this +# year the astronomical calculations don't include the following 2 days off in +# the calc. These 2 days fall in a Sunday/Monday, so it's not acceptable by +# people to have a time shift during these 2 days off. Perhaps you can modify +# the (predicted) rules for next years: if the end of Ramadan is a (probable) +# Friday or Saturday (and so the 2 days off are on a weekend), the next time +# shift will be the next weekend. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2020-05-31): # For now, guess that in the future Morocco will fall back at 03:00 # the last Sunday before Ramadan, and spring forward at 02:00 the -# first Sunday after the day after Ramadan. To implement this, -# transition dates for 2021 through 2087 were determined by running -# the following program under GNU Emacs 26.3. -# (let ((islamic-year 1442)) +# first Sunday after two days after Ramadan. To implement this, +# transition dates and times for 2019 through 2087 were determined by +# running the following program under GNU Emacs 26.3. (This algorithm +# also produces the correct transition dates for 2016 through 2018, +# though the times differ due to Morocco's time zone change in 2018.) +# (let ((islamic-year 1440)) # (require 'cal-islam) # (while (< islamic-year 1511) # (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year))) -# (b (1+ (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))) +# (b (+ 2 (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))) # (sunday 0)) # (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7))) # (while (/= sunday (mod b 7)) @@ -951,7 +964,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 16 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2022 only - Mar 27 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 8 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2023 only - Mar 19 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 30 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2024 only - Mar 10 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2025 only - Feb 23 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -967,7 +980,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2029 only - Feb 18 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2029 only - Dec 30 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2030 only - Feb 10 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2030 only - Dec 22 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2031 only - Jan 26 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2031 only - Feb 2 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2031 only - Dec 14 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2032 only - Jan 18 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2032 only - Nov 28 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -983,7 +996,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2036 only - Nov 23 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2037 only - Nov 15 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2038 only - Sep 26 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2038 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2038 only - Nov 7 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2039 only - Sep 18 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2039 only - Oct 23 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2040 only - Sep 2 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -999,7 +1012,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2044 only - Aug 28 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2045 only - Jul 9 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2045 only - Aug 20 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2046 only - Jul 1 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2046 only - Aug 5 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2046 only - Aug 12 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2047 only - Jun 23 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2047 only - Jul 28 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2048 only - Jun 7 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -1015,7 +1028,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2052 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2053 only - Apr 13 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2053 only - May 25 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2054 only - Apr 5 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2054 only - May 10 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2054 only - May 17 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2055 only - Mar 28 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2055 only - May 2 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2056 only - Mar 12 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -1031,7 +1044,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2060 only - Mar 7 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2061 only - Jan 16 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2061 only - Feb 27 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2062 only - Jan 8 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2062 only - Feb 12 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2062 only - Feb 19 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2062 only - Dec 31 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2063 only - Feb 4 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2063 only - Dec 16 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -1047,7 +1060,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2067 only - Dec 11 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2068 only - Oct 21 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2068 only - Dec 2 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2069 only - Oct 13 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2069 only - Nov 17 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2069 only - Nov 24 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2070 only - Oct 5 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2070 only - Nov 9 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2071 only - Sep 20 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -1063,7 +1076,7 @@ Rule Morocco 2075 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2076 only - Jul 26 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2076 only - Sep 6 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2077 only - Jul 18 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2077 only - Aug 22 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2077 only - Aug 29 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2078 only - Jul 10 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2078 only - Aug 14 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2079 only - Jun 25 3:00 -1:00 - @@ -1073,13 +1086,13 @@ Rule Morocco 2080 only - Jul 21 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2081 only - Jun 1 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2081 only - Jul 13 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2082 only - May 24 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2082 only - Jun 28 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2082 only - Jul 5 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2083 only - May 16 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2083 only - Jun 20 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2084 only - Apr 30 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2084 only - Jun 11 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2085 only - Apr 22 3:00 -1:00 - -Rule Morocco 2085 only - May 27 2:00 0 - +Rule Morocco 2085 only - Jun 3 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2086 only - Apr 14 3:00 -1:00 - Rule Morocco 2086 only - May 19 2:00 0 - Rule Morocco 2087 only - Mar 30 3:00 -1:00 - -- 2.25.4