[tz] Morocco to fall back Sept. 27, not Oct. 25

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 18 07:30:00 UTC 2015


The attached proposed patch implements a change noted in yesterday's Morocco 
World News.  I have not seen an official announcement by the Moroccan 
government.  I suppose we'll need a new tzdata release soon, as the change takes 
effect in less than nine days.
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From e5b0995f5d0fef308ee2d23a343533f040e3422e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:21:31 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Morocco falls back 2015-09-27 at 03:00

* NEWS: Document this.
* africa (Morocco): Assume similar rules for 2015 on.
---
 NEWS   |  3 +++
 africa | 11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2bbb967..45a74ff 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes affecting future time stamps
 
+    Starting 2015 Morocco falls back the last Sunday in September, not
+    the last Sunday in October.
+
     Fiji's 2016 fall-back transition is scheduled for January 17, not 24.
     (Thanks to Ken Rylander.)
 
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index f20d216..cf0c6fb 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -808,7 +808,11 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius	3:50:00 -	LMT	1907 # Port Louis
 # <http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
 # with the patch.
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-18):
+# Yesterday's Morocco World News reports that Morocco will fall back
+# to UTC on 2015-09-27 at 03:00.  See:
+# http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/09/168089/morocco-to-return-to-gmt-on-september-27/
+#
 # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules,
 # and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last
 # Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after
@@ -865,12 +869,13 @@ Rule	Morocco	2012	only	-	Jul	20	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2012	only	-	Aug	20	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2013	only	-	Jul	 7	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2013	only	-	Aug	10	 2:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Morocco	2013	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 3:00	0	-
+Rule	Morocco	2013	2014	-	Oct	lastSun	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2014	2021	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2014	only	-	Jun	28	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2014	only	-	Aug	 2	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2015	only	-	Jun	14	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2015	only	-	Jul	19	 2:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Morocco	2015	max	-	Sep	lastSun	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2016	only	-	Jun	 5	 3:00	0	-
 Rule	Morocco	2016	only	-	Jul	10	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2017	only	-	May	21	 3:00	0	-
@@ -888,8 +893,6 @@ Rule	Morocco	2023	only	-	Apr	23	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2024	only	-	Apr	14	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2025	only	-	Apr	 6	 2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Morocco	2026	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Morocco	2036	only	-	Oct	19	 3:00	0	-
-Rule	Morocco	2037	only	-	Oct	 4	 3:00	0	-
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Africa/Casablanca	-0:30:20 -	LMT	1913 Oct 26
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