Mauritius DST yet again

[Ed Maste]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:45:16PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:57:28 -0400
>     From:        Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>
> 
>   | This seems to imply to me that it's 2am local time and is what I'd
>   | expect, but that contradicts the actual bill.
> 
> No contradiction: when summer time ends, 2am occurs twice, the web
> page is just not bothering to be clear about which one of those is
> the one that ends summer time.   The legislation is.

Yep, it seems like the bill is explicit, and doesn't match what's in 2008g.
Perhaps the following?

# THE TIME BILL (No. XXVII of 2008) Explanatory Memorandum states the
# beginning / ending of summer time is 2 o'clock standard time in the
# morning of the last Sunday of October / last Sunday of March.
# <a href="http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/bill2708.pdf">
# http://www.gov.mu/portal/goc/assemblysite/file/bill2708.pdf
# </a>

$ diff -u3 africa.2008g africa
--- africa.2008g        Tue Oct  7 14:35:26 2008
+++ africa      Tue Oct  7 14:41:23 2008
@@ -453,11 +453,18 @@
 # year 2008 - 2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008
 # and end on 29 March 2009.
 
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 Rule Mauritius 1982    only    -       Oct     10      0:00    1:00    S
 Rule Mauritius 1983    only    -       Mar     21      0:00    0       -
-Rule Mauritius 2008    max     -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    S
-Rule Mauritius 2009    max     -       Mar     lastSun 2:00    0       -
+Rule Mauritius 2008    max     -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    S
+Rule Mauritius 2009    max     -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       -
 # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 Zone Indian/Mauritius  3:50:00 -       LMT     1907            # Port Louis
                        4:00 Mauritius  MU%sT   # Mauritius Time



-Ed