[tz] Libya cancelled their transition to winter time for 2013

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Oct 25 15:05:11 UTC 2013


Thanks for the heads-up.  Here's a patch, pushed to github.
I'll try to generate a new official release soon.

>From baea52df7ac9c4b53857556f7ee822e93d4eee0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:02:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Africa/Tripoli: switch to EET sans DST as of 02:00 today

(Thanks to Even Scharning for the heads-up.)
* africa (Libya): DST rules are for 2013 only.
(Africa/Tripoli): Switch to EET without DST as of 02:00 today.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS   |  3 +++
 africa | 15 ++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f0b74e9..d174443 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
 
+    Libya has switched its time zone back to UTC+2 without DST,
+    instead of UTC+1 with DST.  (Thanks to Even Scharning.)
+
     Western Sahara (Africa/El_Aaiun) uses Morocco's DST rules.
     (Thanks to Gwillim Law.)
 
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 6641d4d..029e5c2 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -451,6 +451,14 @@ Zone	Africa/Monrovia	-0:43:08 -	LMT	1882
 # (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
 # lastFri instead of lastSun).
 
+# From Even Scharning (2013-10-25):
+# The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was
+# cancelled yesterday....
+# http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25):
+# For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UTC+2.
+
 # 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	-
@@ -467,8 +475,8 @@ 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	-
+Rule	Libya	2013	only	-	Mar	lastFri	1:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Libya	2013	only	-	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
@@ -479,7 +487,8 @@ Zone	Africa/Tripoli	0:52:44 -	LMT	1920
 			2:00	-	EET	1996 Sep 30
 			1:00	Libya	CE%sT	1997 Oct  4
 			2:00	-	EET	2012 Nov 10 2:00
-			1:00	Libya	CE%sT
+			1:00	Libya	CE%sT	2013 Oct 25 2:00
+			2:00	-	EET
 
 # Madagascar
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-- 
1.8.3.2




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