[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]
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