Timezone file asia

Nimal Ratnayake nimalr at pdn.ac.lk
Tue Apr 18 05:37:44 UTC 2006


Hi,

The latest version of the timezone data file
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006c.tar.gz
contains the updated time offset for Sri Lanka, but
the text field is set to IST.  I think this needs to be corrected
to LKT.

# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone    Asia/Colombo    5:19:24 -       LMT     1880
                        5:19:32 -       MMT     1906    # Moratuwa Mean Time
                        5:30    -       IST     1942 Jan  5
                        5:30    0:30    IHST    1942 Sep
                        5:30    1:00    IST     1945 Oct 16 2:00
                        5:30    -       IST     1996 May 25 0:00
                        6:30    -       LKT     1996 Oct 26 0:30
                        6:00    -       LKT     2006 Apr 14
                        5:30    -       IST

Thanks.

Nimal Ratnayake



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