Paul, I thought it was a typo... thinking either the WAT is wrong or the -1 is wrong, but... But then, I read: # To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago; # I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00, # and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00. # This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African # mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara. So, the same FORMAT = 'WAT' is used for both minus and plus one with FORMAT=WAT. As it says above WAT is obsolete... the reference is ambiguous but, I suspect I am digging up old news. Please disregard. Thanks for your reply. Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:13 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Jamie Subject: Re: Africa - data error On 08/22/2010 07:58 AM, Jamie wrote:
I believe I have the latest - please check Africa file - it appears to have a minus sign in front of the Feb 1934 date.
Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 -1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
That minus sign is also in our source, namely Shanks & Pottenger. Quite possibly it's a typo (it wouldn't be the first time), but it'd be nice to have a source for any fix.