From a50d7c5db329ae8fdadb891cae22654361e70418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:41:08 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] Spain's 1901 transition was at 00:00 new time * NEWS: (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) * europe (Europe/Madrid, Africa/Ceuta): Correct 1901 transitions. --- NEWS | 3 ++- europe | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2d9cbca..800c649 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes National Astronomical Observatory of Spain. As a side effect, this changes some time stamps for Africa/Ceuta before 1929, which are probably guesswork anyway. (Thanks to Steve Allen and - Pierpaolo Bernardi for the heads-ups.) + Pierpaolo Bernardi for the heads-ups, and to Michael Deckers for + correcting the 1901 transition.) Ecuador observed DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) diff --git a/europe b/europe index 8f96a09..048d521 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -3248,6 +3248,14 @@ Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava # directly, and instead repeats the first hour of the next day, with a # fallback transition from the next day's 00:59... to 00:00. +# From Michael Deckers (2016-12-15): +# The Royal Decree of 1900-06-26 quoted by Planesas, online at +# https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1900/209/A00383-00384.pdf +# says in its article 5 (my translation): +# These dispositions will enter into force beginning with the +# instant at which, according to the time indicated in article 1, +# the 1st day of January of 1901 will begin. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00 1:00 S Rule Spain 1918 1919 - Oct 6 24:00s 0 - @@ -3304,11 +3312,11 @@ Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00s +Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1900 Dec 31 23:45:16 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1940 Mar 16 23:00 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT -Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901 +Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1900 Dec 31 23:38:44 0:00 - WET 1918 May 6 23:00 0:00 1:00 WEST 1918 Oct 7 23:00 0:00 - WET 1924 -- 2.7.4