DST new rules for 2011 in Africa/Casablanca timezone

[Brian Garrett]

My spoken French is not all that fluent, but my written comprehension is 
good enough for this:


Rabat- L'heure légale au Maroc sera avancée d'une heure à partir du samedi 2 
avril 2011 à 24h00, indique une source responsable du ministère de la 
Modernisation des secteurs publics.
 Le retour à l'heure normale se fera à compter du dimanche 31 juillet 2011 à 
minuit. L'heure sera retardée de soixante minutes à 24h00 samedi 30 juillet 
2011.

Un projet de décret a été élaboré à cet égard et sera présenté lors de la 
prochaine réunion du conseil de gouvernement.

Translation:

"Rabat--The legal time in Morocco will be advanced one hour beginning 
Saturday, 2 April 2011 at 24:00, says a responsible source at the Mininstry 
of Public Sector Modernisation.
The return to normal time will take place (literally: do itself) starting 
Sunday, 31 July 2011 at midnight.  The time will be turned back sixty 
minutes at 24:00 [on] Saturday 30 July 2011.

A draft of an official statement on this matter has been drawn up and will 
be presented at the time of the next government council meeting."




So it seems that at midnight Saturday the 2nd (= 2011-04-03T00:00:00) it 
will become 2011-04-03T01:00:00, local time in Morocco.  The "fall back" 
time is ambiguous, though.  24:00 on 30 July and midnight on 31 July are the 
same time, namely 2011-07-31T00:00:00.
Assuming the clocks are changing Saturday night, is it 24:00 _after_ the 
time change, or before?

It does not help that they included a picture of clocks changing at 
2:00/3:00 in the article  :((


Brian Garrett


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From: "Petr Machata" <pmachata at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:17 AM
To: <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
Subject: Re: DST new rules for 2011 in Africa/Casablanca timezone

> "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
>
>> I'm forwarding this message from Dan Abitol, who is not on the time zone 
>> mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies 
>> appropriately.
>>
>>         --ado
>>
>> From: Dan Abitbol [mailto:dabitbol at streamwide.com]
>>
>> Rules for Africa/Casablanca are the following (24h format)
>> The 3rd april 2011 at 00:00:00, il will be 3rd april 1:00:00
>> The 31th july 2011 at 00:59:59,  il will be 31th July 00:00:00
>
> Is that what it says on that page that you linked?  (I don't speak
> French and google translate gives rather unclear results.)
> http://www.map.ma/fr/sections/accueil/l_heure_legale_au_ma/view
>
> They have it written in English here:
> http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/home/morocco_to_spring_fo/view
>
> It says there that "Morocco will resume its standard time on July 31,
> 2011 at midnight."  Now they don't say whether they mean midnight of
> wall clock time (i.e. 11pm UTC), but that's what I would assume.  It has
> also been like that in the past.
>
> Thanks,
> Petr Machata
>
>