Some time zone history (1)
The Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 commenced on 1919-11-24.
Thanks for catching my typo; proposed patch attached and installed into GitHub.
Also, the Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 commenced on 1946-01-06.
True, but how would that affect tzdb? As I understand it, those regulations <https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256> repeal DST, but on 1946-01-06 Gold Coast was already on standard time (having switched from DST on 1946-01-01). Hence on 1946-01-06 there was no clock transition, merely a change in which regulation was in force.
Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, 1942 <https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87> also repeal DST. Therefore it should be GMT+0:30 from 1942-02-08 to 1946-01-05 all-year. This can be confirmed by The Crown Colonist, Volume 12 (1942), p 453 <https://books.google.com/books?id=nJAeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA453> which says "G.C. Time.—It is now learned that no further change in Gold Coast standard time is likely, and the present time, half an hour ahead of Greenwich, has been confirmed throughout the whole year."
On 12/1/20 5:27 PM, P Chan wrote:
Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, 1942 <https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87> also repeal DST. Therefore it should be GMT+0:30 from 1942-02-08 to 1946-01-05 all-year. This can be confirmed by The Crown Colonist, Volume 12 (1942), p 453 <https://books.google.com/books?id=nJAeAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA453> which says "G.C. Time.—It is now learned that no further change in Gold Coast standard time is likely, and the present time, half an hour ahead of Greenwich, has been confirmed throughout the whole year."
Thanks for the correction. Unfortunately I had misread both the original citations and your summary of it. I installed the attached proposed patch, which I hope fixes things for Ghana.
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