Obsolete historic tz change for Libya
Jesper Norgaard Welen
jnorgard at prodigy.net.mx
Mon Apr 11 01:25:49 UTC 2005
In the timezone rules for Libya, it seems to me there is an obsolete
timezone change, at 1.st October 1990 at 0:00, because the Libya Rule is
only used in country Libya until 4.th. of May 1990:
Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00
S
Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0
-
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
2:00 - EET 1982
1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4
# The following entries are all from Shanks;
# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors.
2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30
1:00 - CET 1997 Apr 4
1:00 1:00 CEST 1997 Oct 4
2:00 - EET
Therefore I suggest that the timezone rule be corrected to
Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0
-
This is not a big problem, but might induce some confusion in the reader
of the tz database. If there is any other reason to keep this line,
please state why.
Regards,
Jesper
Jesper Nørgaard Welen
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