[PATCH] * asia (Asia/Kolkata): Add comment about 19th-century Madras time.
--- asia | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/asia b/asia index b3afc5d..00e0df3 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -880,6 +880,14 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # India +# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-21): +# In tomorrow's The Hindu, Nitya Menon reports that India had two civil time +# zones starting in 1884, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta, and that railways +# used a third time zone based on Madras time (80 deg. 18'30" E). Also, +# in 1881 Bombay briefly switched to Madras Time, but switched back. See: +# http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/madras-375-when-madras-clocked-t... +# Ignore this as it predates our 1970 cutoff. + # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne: # According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26) # http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf -- 1.9.1
On 22/08/14 16:20, Paul Eggert wrote:
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-21): +# In tomorrow's The Hindu, Nitya Menon reports that India had two civil time +# zones starting in 1884, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta, and that railways +# used a third time zone based on Madras time (80 deg. 18'30" E). Also, +# in 1881 Bombay briefly switched to Madras Time, but switched back. See: +# http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/madras-375-when-madras-clocked-t... +# Ignore this as it predates our 1970 cutoff.
Paul Does someone need to review this material and look to add the new data into the backzone file? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
Lester Caine wrote:
Does someone need to review this material and look to add the new data into the backzone file?
Unfortunately that report appears to be too vague to be converted into tz database format. It might help someone do further research, though.
On 23/08/14 07:56, Paul Eggert wrote:
Does someone need to review this material and look to add the new data into the backzone file?
Unfortunately that report appears to be too vague to be converted into tz database format. It might help someone do further research, though.
It would be more appropriate to tag it as that then rather than simply saying it's before 1970. -# Ignore this as it predates our 1970 cutoff. +# There is insufficient information to update backzone file and it needs further research. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
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Paul Eggert