[tz] [PATCH] Replace Africa zones with links when that doesn't lose useful info.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jul 9 19:44:55 UTC 2014


* africa (Africa/Luanda, Africa/Porto-Novo, Africa/Gaborone)
(Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Douala, Africa/Bangui)
(Indian/Comoro, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Brazzaville)
(Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Malabo, Africa/Asmara, Africa/Addis_Ababa)
(Africa/Libreville, Africa/Banjul, Africa/Accra, Africa/Conakry)
(Africa/Maseru, Indian/Antananarivo, Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Bamako)
(Africa/Nouakchott, Indian/Mayotte, Africa/Maputo, Africa/Niamey)
(Africa/Kigali, Atlantic/St_Helena, Africa/Sao_Tome, Africa/Dakar)
(Africa/Freetown, Africa/Mogadishu, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
(Africa/Lome, Africa/Kampala, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Harare):
* antarctica (Antarctica/Syowa):
Remove zone, replacing each with a link to a region that has had
the same UTC offset since 1970.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS       |  20 +++--
 africa     | 266 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
 antarctica |   5 +-
 3 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 222f91e..429b89e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -61,11 +61,21 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Some zones have been turned into links, when they differed from existing
     zones only for older UTC offsets where the data were likely invented.
     These changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.  This is
-    similar to the change in release 2013e, except this time for the Pacific.
-    The affected zones are: Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Pacific/Chuuk,
-    Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Midway, Pacific/Palau,
-    Pacific/Pohnpei, Pacific/Saipan, Pacific/Tahiti, Pacific/Wake, and
-    Pacific/Wallis.
+    similar to the change in release 2013e, except this time for Africa and
+    the Pacific.  The affected zones are: Africa/Accra, Africa/Addis_Ababa,
+    Africa/Asmara, Africa/Bamako, Africa/Bangui, Africa/Banjul,
+    Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Brazzaville, Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Conakry,
+    Africa/Dakar, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Douala,
+    Africa/Freetown, Africa/Gaborone, Africa/Harare, Africa/Kampala,
+    Africa/Kigali, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Libreville, Africa/Lome,
+    Africa/Luanda, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Malabo,
+    Africa/Maputo, Africa/Maseru, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Mogadishu,
+    Africa/Niamey, Africa/Nouakchott, Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Porto-Novo,
+    Africa/Sao_Tome, Antarctica/DumontDUrville, Antarctica/Syowa,
+    Atlantic/St_Helena, Indian/Antananarivo, Indian/Comoro, Indian/Mayotte,
+    Pacific/Chuuk, Pacific/Funafuti, Pacific/Majuro, Pacific/Midway,
+    Pacific/Palau, Pacific/Pohnpei, Pacific/Saipan, Pacific/Tahiti,
+    Pacific/Wake, and Pacific/Wallis.
 
     Asia/Shanghai's pre-standard-time UT offset has been changed from
     8:05:57 to 8:05:43, the location of Xujiahui Observatory.  Its
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 3d84d9b..678cde2 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
 #	 3:00	CAST	Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
 #	 3:00	SAST	South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
 #	 3:00	EAT	East Africa Time
-#	 4:00	EAST	East Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
 
 # Algeria
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
@@ -105,45 +104,21 @@ Zone	Africa/Algiers	0:12:12 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15 0:01
 			1:00	-	CET
 
 # Angola
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Luanda	0:52:56	-	LMT	1892
-			0:52:04	-	AOT	1911 May 26 # Angola Time
-			1:00	-	WAT
-
 # Benin
-# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934;
-# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Porto-Novo	0:10:28	-	LMT	1912
-			0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Botswana
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
-# Milne says they were regulated by the Cape Town Signal in 1899;
-# assume they switched to 2:00 when Cape Town did.
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Gaborone	1:43:40 -	LMT	1885
-			1:30	-	SAST	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	CAT	1943 Sep 19 2:00
-			2:00	1:00	CAST	1944 Mar 19 2:00
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# Milne says they were regulated by the Cape Town Signal in 1899.
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Burkina Faso
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Ouagadougou	-0:06:04 -	LMT	1912
-			 0:00	-	GMT
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Burundi
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Bujumbura	1:57:28	-	LMT	1890
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Cameroon
-# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Douala	0:38:48	-	LMT	1912
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Cape Verde
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -154,9 +129,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 -	LMT	1907			# Praia
 			-1:00	-	CVT
 
 # Central African Republic
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Bangui	1:14:20	-	LMT	1912
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Chad
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -166,31 +139,33 @@ Zone	Africa/Ndjamena	1:00:12 -	LMT	1912 # N'Djamena
 			1:00	-	WAT
 
 # Comoros
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Indian/Comoro	2:53:04 -	LMT	1911 Jul   # Moroni, Gran Comoro
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Democratic Republic of Congo
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Kinshasa	1:01:12 -	LMT	1897 Nov 9
-			1:00	-	WAT
-Zone Africa/Lubumbashi	1:49:52 -	LMT	1897 Nov 9
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Lagos for the western part of the country.
+# See Africa/Johannesburg for the eastern part of the country.
 
 # Republic of the Congo
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Brazzaville	1:01:08 -	LMT	1912
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Côte D'Ivoire / Ivory Coast
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Abidjan	-0:16:08 -	LMT	1912
 			 0:00	-	GMT
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra	# Ghana
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako	# Mali
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul	# Gambia
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry	# Guinea
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar	# Senegal
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown	# Sierra Leone
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Lome		# Togo
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Nouakchott	# Mauritania
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Ouagadougou	# Burkina Faso
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Sao_Tome	# São Tomé and Príncipe
+Link Africa/Abidjan Atlantic/St_Helena	# St Helena
 
 # Djibouti
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Djibouti	2:52:36 -	LMT	1911 Jul
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 ###############################################################################
 
@@ -400,56 +375,32 @@ Zone	Africa/Cairo	2:05:09 -	LMT	1900 Oct
 			2:00	Egypt	EE%sT
 
 # Equatorial Guinea
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Malabo	0:35:08 -	LMT	1912
-			0:00	-	GMT	1963 Dec 15
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Eritrea
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Asmara	2:35:32 -	LMT	1870
-			2:35:32	-	AMT	1890	      # Asmara Mean Time
-			2:35:20	-	ADMT	1936 May 5    # Adis Dera MT
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Ethiopia
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones
-# between 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890.
-# We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera.
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa	2:34:48 -	LMT	1870
-			2:35:20	-	ADMT	1936 May 5    # Adis Dera MT
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-09):
+# Like the Swahili of Kenya and Tanzania, many Ethiopians keep a
+# 12-hour clock starting at our 06:00, so their "8 o'clock" is our
+# 02:00 or 14:00.  Keep this in mind when you ask the time in Amharic.
+#
+# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time
+# zones between 1870 and 1890, that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in
+# 1890, and that they switched to 3:00 on 1936-05-05.  Perhaps 38E50
+# was for Adis Dera.  Ignore this for now as it predates our 1970
+# cutoff, and it's quite likely wrong anyway.
+#
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Gabon
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Libreville	0:37:48 -	LMT	1912
-			1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Gambia
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Banjul	-1:06:36 -	LMT	1912
-			-1:06:36 -	BMT	1935	# Banjul Mean Time
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1964
-			 0:00	-	GMT
-
 # Ghana
-# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to "the present";
-# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-Rule	Ghana	1936	1942	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0:20	GHST
-Rule	Ghana	1936	1942	-	Dec	31	0:00	0	GMT
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Accra	-0:00:52 -	LMT	1918
-			 0:00	Ghana	%s
-
 # Guinea
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Conakry	-0:54:52 -	LMT	1912
-			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1960
-			 0:00	-	GMT
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Guinea-Bissau
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -464,13 +415,19 @@ Zone	Africa/Nairobi	2:27:16	-	LMT	1928 Jul
 			2:30	-	BEAT	1940
 			2:45	-	BEAUT	1960
 			3:00	-	EAT
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Addis_Ababa	 # Ethiopia
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara	 # Eritrea
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Dar_es_Salaam # Tanzania
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Djibouti
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Kampala	 # Uganda
+Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Mogadishu	 # Somalia
+Link Africa/Nairobi Antarctica/Syowa
+Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Antananarivo	 # Madagascar
+Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Comoro
+Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
 
 # Lesotho
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Maseru	1:50:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	SAST	1943 Sep 19 2:00
-			2:00	1:00	SAST	1944 Mar 19 2:00
-			2:00	-	SAST
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Liberia
 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
@@ -545,30 +502,14 @@ Zone	Africa/Tripoli	0:52:44 -	LMT	1920
 			2:00	-	EET
 
 # Madagascar
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 -	LMT	1911 Jul
-			3:00	-	EAT	1954 Feb 27 23:00s
-			3:00	1:00	EAST	1954 May 29 23:00s
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Malawi
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Blantyre	2:20:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Mali
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Bamako	-0:32:00 -	LMT	1912
-			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1960 Jun 20
-			 0:00	-	GMT
-
 # Mauritania
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Nouakchott	-1:03:48 -	LMT	1912
-			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1960 Nov 28
-			 0:00	-	GMT
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Mauritius
 
@@ -665,8 +606,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius	3:50:00 -	LMT	1907		# Port Louis
 
 # Mayotte
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Indian/Mayotte	3:00:56 -	LMT	1911 Jul	# Mamoutzou
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Morocco
 # See the 'europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
@@ -964,9 +904,7 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun	-0:52:48 -	LMT	1934 Jan # El Aaiún
 			 0:00	Morocco	WE%sT
 
 # Mozambique
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Maputo	2:10:20 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Namibia
 # The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger.
@@ -998,16 +936,21 @@ Zone	Africa/Windhoek	1:08:24 -	LMT	1892 Feb 8
 			1:00	Namibia	WA%sT
 
 # Niger
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Niamey	 0:08:28 -	LMT	1912
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1934 Feb 26
-			 0:00	-	GMT	1960
-			 1:00	-	WAT
+# See Africa/Lagos.
 
 # Nigeria
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Lagos	0:13:36 -	LMT	1919 Sep
 			1:00	-	WAT
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui	     # Central African Republic
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville # Rep. of the Congo
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala	     # Cameroon
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa    # W Dem. Rep. of the Congo
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville  # Gabon
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda	     # Angola
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo	     # Equatorial Guinea
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey	     # Niger
+Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo  # Benin
 
 # Réunion
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -1028,16 +971,11 @@ Link Indian/Reunion Indian/Alfred_Faure
 # Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
 
 # Rwanda
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Kigali	2:00:16 -	LMT	1935 Jun
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # St Helena
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Atlantic/St_Helena	-0:22:48 -	LMT	1890		# Jamestown
-			-0:22:48 -	JMT	1951	# Jamestown Mean Time
-			 0:00	-	GMT
-# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
+# The parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
 #	Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
 #	Ascension: on GMT, say the USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA
 #	Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously):
@@ -1045,16 +983,8 @@ Zone Atlantic/St_Helena	-0:22:48 -	LMT	1890		# Jamestown
 #	Inaccessible, Nightingale: uninhabited
 
 # São Tomé and Príncipe
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Sao_Tome	 0:26:56 -	LMT	1884
-			-0:36:32 -	LMT	1912	# Lisbon Mean Time
-			 0:00	-	GMT
-
 # Senegal
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Dakar	-1:09:44 -	LMT	1912
-			-1:00	-	WAT	1941 Jun
-			 0:00	-	GMT
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Seychelles
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -1068,24 +998,10 @@ Zone	Indian/Mahe	3:41:48 -	LMT	1906 Jun	# Victoria
 # Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
 
 # Sierra Leone
-# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
-Rule	SL	1935	1942	-	Jun	 1	0:00	0:40	SLST
-Rule	SL	1935	1942	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	WAT
-Rule	SL	1957	1962	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	SLST
-Rule	SL	1957	1962	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0	GMT
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Freetown	-0:53:00 -	LMT	1882
-			-0:53:00 -	FMT	1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time
-			-1:00	SL	%s	1957
-			 0:00	SL	%s
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Somalia
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Mogadishu	3:01:28 -	LMT	1893 Nov
-			3:00	-	EAT	1931
-			2:30	-	BEAT	1957
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # South Africa
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
@@ -1095,6 +1011,17 @@ Rule	SA	1943	1944	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
 Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 -	LMT	1892 Feb 8
 			1:30	-	SAST	1903 Mar
 			2:00	SA	SAST
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Blantyre   # Malawi
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Bujumbura  # Burundi
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Gaborone   # Botswana
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Harare	   # Zimbabwe
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Kigali	   # Rwanda
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Lubumbashi # E Dem. Rep. of Congo
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Lusaka	   # Zambia
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maputo	   # Mozambique
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru	   # Lesotho
+Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane    # Swaziland
+#
 # Marion and Prince Edward Is
 # scientific station since 1947
 # no information
@@ -1122,21 +1049,13 @@ Zone	Africa/Khartoum	2:10:08 -	LMT	1931
 Link Africa/Khartoum Africa/Juba
 
 # Swaziland
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Mbabane	2:04:24 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	SAST
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
 
 # Tanzania
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 -	LMT	1931
-			3:00	-	EAT	1948
-			2:45	-	BEAUT	1961
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Togo
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Lome	0:04:52 -	LMT	1893
-			0:00	-	GMT
+# See Africa/Abidjan.
 
 # Tunisia
 
@@ -1239,19 +1158,8 @@ Zone	Africa/Tunis	0:40:44 -	LMT	1881 May 12
 			1:00	Tunisia	CE%sT
 
 # Uganda
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Kampala	2:09:40 -	LMT	1928 Jul
-			3:00	-	EAT	1930
-			2:30	-	BEAT	1948
-			2:45	-	BEAUT	1957
-			3:00	-	EAT
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # Zambia
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Lusaka	1:53:08 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	CAT
-
 # Zimbabwe
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Africa/Harare	2:04:12 -	LMT	1903 Mar
-			2:00	-	CAT
+# See Africa/Johannesburg.
diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica
index 16aedaa..38720a8 100644
--- a/antarctica
+++ b/antarctica
@@ -207,12 +207,11 @@ Zone Indian/Kerguelen	0	-	zzz	1950	# Port-aux-Français
 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
 # was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Antarctica/Syowa	0	-	zzz	1957 Jan 29
-			3:00	-	SYOT	# Syowa Time
 # See:
 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
 # <http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html>
+#
+# See Africa/Nairobi.
 
 # S Korea - year-round base
 # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014
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