[PROPOSED 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
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Paul Eggert