[tz] [PATCH] * asia (Asia/Kolkata): Add comment about 19th-century Madras time.
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Aug 23 19:49:44 UTC 2014
Lester Caine wrote:
> It would be more appropriate to tag it as that then rather than simply
> saying it's before 1970.
OK, revised patch attached.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:39:21 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Improve commentary for time long ago in India. *
asia: Move commentary about Portuguese India from here ... * backzone: ...
too here. Add comment about 19th-century Madras time. * NEWS: Document this.
---
NEWS | 3 ++-
asia | 7 -------
backzone | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7bc8b05..6ba9797 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Some broken URLs have been fixed in the commentary. (Thanks to
Lester Caine.)
- Commentary about Philippines DST has been updated.
+ Commentary about Philippines DST has been updated, and commentary
+ on pre-1970 time in India has been added.
Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index b3afc5d..806a8c7 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -879,13 +879,6 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1
9:00 - TLT
# India
-
-# 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
-# Portuguese India switched to GMT+5 on 1912-01-01.
-# Ignore this as it predates our 1970 cutoff.
-
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
index 460f864..66d3e27 100644
--- a/backzone
+++ b/backzone
@@ -261,6 +261,15 @@ Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956
12:00 NZ NZ%sT
Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole
+# 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
+#Zone Asia/Chennai [not enough info to complete]
+
# China
# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
@@ -288,6 +297,13 @@ Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
5:00 - KAST 1980 May
8:00 PRC C%sT
+# India
+# 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
+# Portuguese India switched to GMT+5 on 1912-01-01.
+#Zone Asia/Panaji [not enough info to complete]
+
# Israel
Zone Asia/Tel_Aviv 2:19:04 - LMT 1880
2:21 - JMT 1918
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