[tz] Morocco not ending DST tonight - instead extending by one month
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Sep 30 04:56:25 UTC 2013
Come to think of it, my previously-proposed patch can't
be right for 2036 and 2037. as the predicted dates for
Ramadan in those years overlap the new fall-back dates.
Here's a revised patch that takes this into account; this
matters only for time stamps after 2035.
As a result of this change, Africa/Casablanca becomes the
only Zone for which zic cannot generate a POSIX environment
variable (for time stamps past 2038).
I've pushed this revised edition to the experimental version
on github.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14f75fa..c89e339 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..16fe153 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -858,13 +858,23 @@ 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 Paul Eggert (2013-07-03):
+# 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 (2013-09-29):
# To estimate what the Moroccan government will do in future years,
-# transition dates for 2014 through 2021 were determined by running
+# transition dates for 2014 through 2037 were determined by running
# the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3:
#
# (let ((islamic-year 1435))
-# (while (< islamic-year 1444)
+# (while (< islamic-year 1460)
# (let ((a
# (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
# (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year))))
@@ -880,12 +890,12 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
#
# with the results hand-edited for 2020-2022, when the normal spring-forward
-# date falls during the estimated Ramadan.
-#
-# From 2023 through 2038 Ramadan is not predicted to overlap with
-# daylight saving time. Starting in 2039 there will be overlap again,
+# date falls during the estimated Ramadan; with results removed for 2023-2035,
+# where the estimated Ramadan falls entirely outside daylight-saving time,
+# and the results hand-edited again for 2036-2037, where the normal fall-back
+# date falls during the estimated Ramadan. Problems continue after that,
# but 32-bit time_t values roll around in 2038 so for now do not worry
-# about dates after 2038.
+# about dates after 2037.
# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -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 2035 - 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 -
@@ -934,6 +945,8 @@ Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 13 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 3 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2023 max - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 21 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 11 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
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