[tz] Casablanca Timezone changes
Petr Machata
pmachata at redhat.com
Fri Jul 13 08:45:55 UTC 2012
"David Magda" <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca> writes:
> On Thu, July 12, 2012 09:38, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> On 2012-07-12 11:58, Neil Masson wrote:
>>> According to
>>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=60&year=2012,
>>> DST in Morocco is being suspended between 20 July and 19 August. A
>>> customer is reporting that the suspension will be between 15 July and 26
>>> August. I have asked for references, but so far do not have any.
>>
>> FWIW, Microsoft appear to be going with the 20 July and 19 August dates
>> and have Windows hotfixes to be installed during certain intervals to
>> cope with the temporary suspension of DST. See:
>>
>> http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2012/06/20/ramadan-change-for-moroccan-dst.aspx
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2698707
>
> Non-normative weblog post from March:
>
> http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2012/03/daylight-saving-in-morocco-2012.html
The following is based on the above information and blog post. It seems
consistent with what Microsoft did for Windows[1].
[1] https://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2012/06/20/ramadan-change-for-moroccan-dst.aspx
--- africa~ 2012-03-27 17:39:16.000000000 +0200
+++ africa 2012-07-13 09:46:30.382276596 +0200
@@ -826,6 +826,9 @@ Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:
Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 -
Rule Morocco 2012 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -
+# DST is suspended for the month of Ramadan
+Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 19 2:00 1:00 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
Thanks,
PM
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