[tz] Some time zone history (2)

P Chan legco at outlook.com
Thu Dec 3 14:48:04 UTC 2020


>For the standard time used in Lagos before 1914...

Please ignore that paragraph. GMT was adopted as the standard time of Lagos on 1905-07-01.

Lagos Weekly Record, 1905-06-24, p 3 
http://ddsnext.crl.edu/titles/31558#?c=0&m=668&s=0&cv=2&r=0&xywh=1446%2C5221%2C1931%2C1235
says "It is officially notified that on and after the 1st of July 1905 Greenwich Mean Solar Time will be adopted thought the Colony and Protectorate, and that it will be necessary to put all clocks 13 minutes and 35 seconds back, recording local mean time."


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