[tz] Morocco not ending DST tonight - instead extending by one month
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Sep 30 04:33:36 UTC 2013
Thanks, here's a proposed patch to implement this,
which I've pushed to the experimental version on github.
I'd like to release a new version very soon, since
the tz database is currently incorrect for Morocco.
(I wish they'd give more notice!)
>From 0def5ed0fd67bf3093a69a5659537a3a32ee1d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:30:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Morocco changed end-of-DST from September to October.
* africa (Morocco): Morocco now ends DST the last Sunday in
October, not September. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
* NEWS: Document the above.
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
africa | 13 ++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14f75fa..5a8d8fc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ News for the tz database
Unreleased, experimental changes
+ Changes affecting current and near-future time stamps
+
+ Morocco changed their rules, and now falls back the first Sunday
+ in October, not September. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
+
Changes affecting 'zic'
'zic' now runs on platforms that lack both hard links and symlinks.
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 9a5d93b..d168597 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -858,6 +858,16 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
# transitions would be 2013-07-07 and 2013-08-10; see:
# http://www.maroc.ma/en/news/morocco-suspends-daylight-saving-time-july-7-aug10
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-28):
+# Morocco extends DST by one month, on very short notice, just 1 day
+# before it was going to end. There is a new decree (2.13.781) for
+# this, where DST from now on goes from last Sunday of March at 02:00
+# to last Sunday of October at 03:00, similar to EU rules. Official
+# source (French):
+# http://www.maroc.gov.ma/fr/actualites/lhoraire-dete-gmt1-maintenu-jusquau-27-octobre-2013
+# Another source (specifying the time for start and end in the decree):
+# http://www.lemag.ma/Heure-d-ete-au-Maroc-jusqu-au-27-octobre_a75620.html
+
# From Paul Eggert (2013-07-03):
# To estimate what the Moroccan government will do in future years,
# transition dates for 2014 through 2021 were determined by running
@@ -913,11 +923,12 @@ Rule Morocco 2010 only - Aug 8 0:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2011 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2011 only - Jul 31 0 0 -
Rule Morocco 2012 2019 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2012 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2012 only - Jul 20 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 7 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2013 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 29 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jul 29 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 18 3:00 0 -
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