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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2017-03-02 14:27:31 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2017-03-02 14:27:31 +0000 |
| commit | 9e7f5558e7ef774ca16ffc7e14ac2f0e2ca4a13c (patch) | |
| tree | cdc00c29a196601d5bc0f863285d081c9fa6e8ac | |
| parent | fix error in Dt; from robert klein (diff) | |
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Silence a warning from zic about a too long zone name (POSIX limits TZ to 6 characters)
| -rw-r--r-- | share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa | 27 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa index f48a0402427..1f68cb9405f 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/africa @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: africa,v 1.51 2017/02/28 23:19:42 millert Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: africa,v 1.52 2017/03/02 14:27:31 millert Exp $ # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -421,18 +421,25 @@ Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte # See Africa/Johannesburg. # Liberia -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch -# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. -# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. -# Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; -# go with Shanks & Pottenger. -# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and -# Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-03-02): +# +# The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970, p 264, is the source for -0:44:30. +# +# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch from a UTC offset +# that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. The 1972 change was on +# 1972-01-07, according to an entry dated 1972-01-04 on p 330 of: +# Presidential Papers: First year of the administration of +# President William R. Tolbert, Jr., July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. +# Monrovia: Executive Mansion. +# +# Use the abbreviation "MMT" before 1972, as the more-accurate numeric +# abbreviation "-004430" would be one byte over the POSIX limit. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time - -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May + -0:44:30 - MMT 1972 Jan 7 # approximately MMT 0:00 - GMT ############################################################################### |