[tz] Morocco to fall back Sept. 27, not Oct. 25
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Sep 18 07:30:00 UTC 2015
The attached proposed patch implements a change noted in yesterday's Morocco
World News. I have not seen an official announcement by the Moroccan
government. I suppose we'll need a new tzdata release soon, as the change takes
effect in less than nine days.
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From e5b0995f5d0fef308ee2d23a343533f040e3422e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:21:31 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Morocco falls back 2015-09-27 at 03:00
* NEWS: Document this.
* africa (Morocco): Assume similar rules for 2015 on.
---
NEWS | 3 +++
africa | 11 +++++++----
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2bbb967..45a74ff 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Changes affecting future time stamps
+ Starting 2015 Morocco falls back the last Sunday in September, not
+ the last Sunday in October.
+
Fiji's 2016 fall-back transition is scheduled for January 17, not 24.
(Thanks to Ken Rylander.)
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index f20d216..cf0c6fb 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -808,7 +808,11 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# <http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
# with the patch.
-# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-18):
+# Yesterday's Morocco World News reports that Morocco will fall back
+# to UTC on 2015-09-27 at 03:00. See:
+# http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/09/168089/morocco-to-return-to-gmt-on-september-27/
+#
# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules,
# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last
# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after
@@ -865,12 +869,13 @@ 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 2013 2014 - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2014 2021 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 28 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 14 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2015 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 5 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 21 3:00 0 -
@@ -888,8 +893,6 @@ Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2026 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
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