[tz] Libya one hour back last night

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Nov 12 06:06:42 UTC 2012


Thanks for generating the tables.  I came up with the
following slightly-condensed version and would like to
push out a new tz version soon.  I looked for confirmation
that the rules actually took effect in Tripoli, but I'm
afraid my Arabic's pretty bad.

Also, I have a few other minor patches saved up and will
email them out shortly, so they can be part of the new tz
version.

>From c7698fdca663ef4eeb343550e996d61a3b2e3217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:01:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Libya moving to CET, but with DST.

* africa (Libya, Africa/Tripoli): Libya switched to CET
on 2012-11-10 at 02:00, and plans to switch to CEST
Mar lastFri 1:00 and switch back Oct lastFri 2:00.
Thanks to Even Scharning, Steffen Thorsen, and Tim Parenti,
with the thread starting in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018449.html>.
---
 africa |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/africa b/africa
index bbec05e..54c7a1e 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -424,6 +424,20 @@ Zone	Africa/Monrovia	-0:43:08 -	LMT	1882
 
 # Libya
 
+# From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
+# Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
+# http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
+# Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc
+#
+# Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
+# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
+# Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
+# The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
+# (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
+# lastFri instead of lastSun).
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Libya	1951	only	-	Oct	14	2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Libya	1952	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	-
@@ -438,17 +452,21 @@ Rule	Libya	1986	only	-	Apr	 4	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Libya	1986	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Libya	1987	1989	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Libya	1987	1989	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
+Rule	Libya	1997	only	-	Apr	 4	0:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Libya	1997	only	-	Oct	 4	0:00	0	-
+Rule	Libya	2013	max	-	Mar	lastFri	1:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Libya	2013	max	-	Oct	lastFri	2:00	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 from Shanks & Pottenger;
+# The 1996 and 1997 entries are from Shanks & Pottenger;
 # 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
+			1:00	Libya	CE%sT	1997 Oct  4
+			2:00	-	EET	2012 Nov 10 2:00
+			1:00	Libya	CE%sT
 
 # Madagascar
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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