[tz] morocco change in 12 days

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Mar 20 05:43:38 UTC 2014


Thanks for the heads-up.  It appears that our prediction was correct for 
Morocco this spring, so we don't need to change the data, but a comment 
would help, so I pushed the attached patch to the experimental repository.
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From 6c44b67414d160148f39f36deb1e4322f31537f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:41:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Morocco's 2014 DST start will be as predicted.

* africa (Morocco), NEWS: Document this.
(Thanks to Sebastien Willemijns.)
---
 NEWS   | 3 +++
 africa | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6674c19..0214ca3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Add comments about Johnston Island time in the 1960s.
     (Thanks to Lyle McElhaney.)
 
+    Morocco's 2014 DST start will be as predicted.
+    (Thanks to Sebastien Willemijns.)
+
 Release 2014a - 2014-03-07 23:30:29 -0800
 
   Changes affecting near-future time stamps
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 029e5c2..fbf0b65 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -868,7 +868,10 @@ Zone	Indian/Mayotte	3:00:56 -	LMT	1911 Jul	# Mamoutzou
 # Another source (specifying the time for start and end in the decree):
 # http://www.lemag.ma/Heure-d-ete-au-Maroc-jusqu-au-27-octobre_a75620.html
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-03):
+# From Sebastien Willemijns (2014-03-18):
+# http://www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2014/3/18/maroc-heure-dete-avancez-tous-horloges-247891.asp
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-19):
 # To estimate what the Moroccan government will do in future years,
 # transition dates for 2014 through 2038 were determined by running
 # the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3:
-- 
1.8.3.2


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