[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * asia (Asia/Kolkata): Add comment about 19th-century Madras time.
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Aug 22 06:40:30 UTC 2014
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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-the-time/article6339393.ece
+# 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
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