From ce7b1bbc761ba451b120fc6498ebc5bf2b773fc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 23:38:05 -0500 Subject: Seychelles switched from LMT to +04 on 1907-01-01 (Thanks to P Chan.) * NEWS: Mention this. * africa (Indian/Mahe): Transition from LMT to standard time was 1907-01-01, not 1906-06. --- NEWS | 1 + africa | 15 ++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0937d8a..dd131a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes - Ghana: several 1915 through 1956 transitions - Israel and Palestine: several 1940 through 1985 transitions - Kenya and adjacent: several 1908 through 1960 transitions + - Seychelles: the introduction of standard time in 1907, not 1906 - Vanuatu: DST in 1973-1974, and a corrected 1984 transition (Thanks to P Chan.) diff --git a/africa b/africa index 27c987a..e0200a9 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -1392,8 +1392,21 @@ Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884 # See Africa/Abidjan. # Seychelles + +# From P Chan (2020-11-27): +# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01. +# +# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237) +# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 +# +# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): +# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689 +# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st +# January, 1907." + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria +Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1907 Jan 1 # Victoria 4:00 - +04 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): # Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the -- 2.15.1