[tz] Fwd: FORMAT Missing in Africa/Windhoek & America/Belize

[vaibhav shrivastava]

Hello Jon,
Thanks for answering my query.
What I mean is that in the zone the %s is mentioned , does it not have a
format like "2:00 - CAT" .

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/namibia/windhoek

# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone	Africa/Windhoek	1:08:24 -	LMT	1892 Feb 8
			1:30	-	+0130	1903 Mar
			2:00	-	SAST	1942 Sep 20  2:00
			2:00	1:00	SAST	1943 Mar 21  2:00
			2:00	-	SAST	1990 Mar 21 # independence
# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST.
			2:00	Namibia	%s  ==> *2:00	-	CAT*


Same case with https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/belize

Zone	America/Belize	-5:52:48 -	LMT	1912 Apr  1

			-6:00	Belize	%s


%s pick from Rule but there is no Rule Save and Rule From as no DST
Apply which lies in current date, as it is ended in 2017.


Regard,

Vaibhav


On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:56 PM Jon Skeet <skeet at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 10:17, vaibhav shrivastava via tz <tz at iana.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Daylight Saving Time (DST) Not Observed in Year 2021
>> Windhoek currently observes Central Africa Time (CAT)
>>  all year.
>> DST is no longer in use.
>> Clocks do not change in Windhoek, Namibia.
>> The previous DST change in Windhoek was on 24 October 2017
>>
>
> Do you have documentation for the final change being on October 24th? The
> database has the change occurring on September 3rd 2017. If there's
> appropriate documentation showing that it actually changed on October 24th,
> it would be good to update the database accordingly.
>
> But other than the precise date, what you've described is what the rules
> show as well. The 2017 part of the rules that Arthur Olsen included before
> means that those rules terminate in 2017.
> From the final change in September 2017, Africa/Windhoek is on UTC+2, with
> abbreviation CAT.
>
> See https://nodatime.org/tzvalidate/generate?zone=Africa/Windhoek as an
> example of the transitions, noting that the final line is:
>
> 2017-09-03 01:00:00Z +02:00:00 standard CAT
>
>
>> Why WAT is mentioned?
>>
>
> Because the time zone database covers the past as well as the future, and
> Africa/Windhoek *used* to alternate between CAT and WAT.
>
>
>> Why it is different from other rule and format?
>>
>
> Which specific other rule and format? It's not clear to me what you mean,
> but I don't believe there's any problem here.
>
> Jon
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Vaibhav
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