[tz] São Tomé and Príncipe tz change (Jan 1, 2019)

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Dec 30 06:39:19 UTC 2018


Thanks, proposed further patch attached.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:37:49 -0800
Subject: [PROPOSED] =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A3o=20Tom=C3=A9=20and=20Pr=C3=ADncipe?=
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(Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
* africa (Africa/Sao_Tome): The switch is at 02:00, not 00:00.
* NEWS: Mention this.
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 NEWS   | 5 +++--
 africa | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ba688b3..82e1e78 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes to past and future timestamps
 
-    São Tomé and Príncipe switches back from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01,
-    due to a change in government.  (Thanks to Vadim Nasardinov.)
+    Due to a change in government, São Tomé and Príncipe switches back
+    from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01 at 02:00.  (Thanks to Vadim
+    Nasardinov and Michael Deckers.)
 
 
 Release 2018h - 2018-12-23 17:59:32 -0800
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 61f1b43..0a0f586 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -1147,11 +1147,16 @@ Zone	Indian/Reunion	3:41:52 -	LMT	1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
 # From Vadim Nasardinov (2018-12-29):
 # São Tomé and Príncipe is about to do the following on Jan 1, 2019:
 # https://www.stp-press.st/2018/12/05/governo-jesus-ja-decidiu-repor-hora-legal-sao-tomense/
+#
+# From Michael Deckers (2018-12-30):
+# https://www.legis-palop.org/download.jsp?idFile=102818
+# ... [The legal time of the country, which coincides with universal
+# coordinated time, will be restituted at 2 o'clock on day 1 of January, 2019.]
 
 Zone	Africa/Sao_Tome	 0:26:56 -	LMT	1884
 			-0:36:45 -	LMT	1912 Jan  1 00:00u # Lisbon MT
 			 0:00	-	GMT	2018 Jan  1 01:00
-			 1:00	-	WAT	2019 Jan  1
+			 1:00	-	WAT	2019 Jan  1 02:00
 			 0:00	-	GMT
 
 # Senegal
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2.17.1



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