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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