From fed9249a909d052cb652f727f3854357af83e98f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Coleman Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:28:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] zoneinfo: update to 2018i --- extra/zoneinfo/africa | 12 ++- extra/zoneinfo/calendars | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ extra/zoneinfo/version | 1 + 3 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 extra/zoneinfo/calendars create mode 100644 extra/zoneinfo/version diff --git a/extra/zoneinfo/africa b/extra/zoneinfo/africa index a83c3875ee..0a0f5863bf 100644 --- a/extra/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/extra/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1144,10 +1144,20 @@ Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis # the switch is from 01:00 to 02:00 ... [Decree No. 25/2017] # http://www.mnec.gov.st/index.php/publicacoes/documentos/file/90-decreto-lei-n-25-2017 +# From Vadim Nasardinov (2018-12-29): +# São Tomé and Príncipe is about to do the following on Jan 1, 2019: +# https://www.stp-press.st/2018/12/05/governo-jesus-ja-decidiu-repor-hora-legal-sao-tomense/ +# +# From Michael Deckers (2018-12-30): +# https://www.legis-palop.org/download.jsp?idFile=102818 +# ... [The legal time of the country, which coincides with universal +# coordinated time, will be restituted at 2 o'clock on day 1 of January, 2019.] + Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884 -0:36:45 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 00:00u # Lisbon MT 0:00 - GMT 2018 Jan 1 01:00 - 1:00 - WAT + 1:00 - WAT 2019 Jan 1 02:00 + 0:00 - GMT # Senegal # See Africa/Abidjan. diff --git a/extra/zoneinfo/calendars b/extra/zoneinfo/calendars new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8bc70626eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/zoneinfo/calendars @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +----- Calendrical issues ----- + +As mentioned in Theory.html, although calendrical issues are out of +scope for tzdb, they indicate the sort of problems that we would run +into if we extended tzdb further into the past. The following +information and sources go beyond Theory.html's brief discussion. +They sometimes disagree. + + +France + +Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-12-20. +French Revolutionary calendar used 1793-11-24 through 1805-12-31, +and (in Paris only) 1871-05-06 through 1871-05-23. + + +Russia + +From Chris Carrier (1996-12-02): +On 1929-10-01 the Soviet Union instituted an "Eternal Calendar" +with 30-day months plus 5 holidays, with a 5-day week. +On 1931-12-01 it changed to a 6-day week; in 1934 it reverted to the +Gregorian calendar while retaining the 6-day week; on 1940-06-27 it +reverted to the 7-day week. With the 6-day week the usual days +off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month. +(Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, _The Seven Day Circle_) + + +Mark Brader reported a similar story in "The Book of Calendars", edited +by Frank Parise (1982, Facts on File, ISBN 0-8719-6467-8), page 377. But: + +From: Petteri Sulonen (via Usenet) +Date: 14 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT +... + +If your source is correct, how come documents between 1929 and 1940 were +still dated using the conventional, Gregorian calendar? + +I can post a scan of a document dated December 1, 1934, signed by +Yenukidze, the secretary, on behalf of Kalinin, the President of the +Executive Committee of the Supreme Soviet, if you like. + + + +Sweden (and Finland) + +From: Mark Brader +Subject: Re: Gregorian reform - a part of locale? + +Date: 1996-07-06 + +In 1700, Denmark made the transition from Julian to Gregorian. Sweden +decided to *start* a transition in 1700 as well, but rather than have one of +those unsightly calendar gaps :-), they simply decreed that the next leap +year after 1696 would be in 1744 - putting the whole country on a calendar +different from both Julian and Gregorian for a period of 40 years. + +However, in 1704 something went wrong and the plan was not carried through; +they did, after all, have a leap year that year. And one in 1708. In 1712 +they gave it up and went back to Julian, putting 30 days in February that +year!... + +Then in 1753, Sweden made the transition to Gregorian in the usual manner, +getting there only 13 years behind the original schedule. + +(A previous posting of this story was challenged, and Swedish readers +produced the following references to support it: "Tideräkning och historia" +by Natanael Beckman (1924) and "Tid, en bok om tideräkning och +kalenderväsen" by Lars-Olof Lodén (1968). + + +Grotefend's data + +From: "Michael Palmer" [with one obvious typo fixed] +Subject: Re: Gregorian Calendar (was Re: Another FHC related question +Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.german +Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 02:32:48 -800 +... + +The following is a(n incomplete) listing, arranged chronologically, of +European states, with the date they converted from the Julian to the +Gregorian calendar: + +04/15 Oct 1582 - Italy (with exceptions), Spain, Portugal, Poland (Roman + Catholics and Danzig only) +09/20 Dec 1582 - France, Lorraine + +21 Dec 1582/ + 01 Jan 1583 - Holland, Brabant, Flanders, Hennegau +10/21 Feb 1583 - bishopric of Liege (Lüttich) +13/24 Feb 1583 - bishopric of Augsburg +04/15 Oct 1583 - electorate of Trier +05/16 Oct 1583 - Bavaria, bishoprics of Freising, Eichstedt, Regensburg, + Salzburg, Brixen +13/24 Oct 1583 - Austrian Oberelsaß and Breisgau +20/31 Oct 1583 - bishopric of Basel +02/13 Nov 1583 - duchy of Jülich-Berg +02/13 Nov 1583 - electorate and city of Köln +04/15 Nov 1583 - bishopric of Würzburg +11/22 Nov 1583 - electorate of Mainz +16/27 Nov 1583 - bishopric of Strassburg and the margraviate of Baden +17/28 Nov 1583 - bishopric of Münster and duchy of Cleve +14/25 Dec 1583 - Steiermark + +06/17 Jan 1584 - Austria and Bohemia +11/22 Jan 1584 - Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn +12/23 Jan 1584 - Silesia and the Lausitz +22 Jan/ + 02 Feb 1584 - Hungary (legally on 21 Oct 1587) + Jun 1584 - Unterwalden +01/12 Jul 1584 - duchy of Westfalen + +16/27 Jun 1585 - bishopric of Paderborn + +14/25 Dec 1590 - Transylvania + +22 Aug/ + 02 Sep 1612 - duchy of Prussia + +13/24 Dec 1614 - Pfalz-Neuburg + + 1617 - duchy of Kurland (reverted to the Julian calendar in + 1796) + + 1624 - bishopric of Osnabrück + + 1630 - bishopric of Minden + +15/26 Mar 1631 - bishopric of Hildesheim + + 1655 - Kanton Wallis + +05/16 Feb 1682 - city of Strassburg + +18 Feb/ + 01 Mar 1700 - Protestant Germany (including Swedish possessions in + Germany), Denmark, Norway +30 Jun/ + 12 Jul 1700 - Gelderland, Zutphen +10 Nov/ + 12 Dec 1700 - Utrecht, Overijssel + +31 Dec 1700/ + 12 Jan 1701 - Friesland, Groningen, Zürich, Bern, Basel, Geneva, + Turgau, and Schaffhausen + + 1724 - Glarus, Appenzell, and the city of St. Gallen + +01 Jan 1750 - Pisa and Florence + +02/14 Sep 1752 - Great Britain + +17 Feb/ + 01 Mar 1753 - Sweden + +1760-1812 - Graubünden + +The Russian empire (including Finland and the Baltic states) did not +convert to the Gregorian calendar until the Soviet revolution of 1917. + +Source: H. Grotefend, _Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung des deutschen +Mittelalters und der Neuzeit_, herausgegeben von Dr. O. Grotefend +(Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1941), pp. 26-28. + +----- + +This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by +Arthur David Olson. + +----- +Local Variables: +coding: utf-8 +End: diff --git a/extra/zoneinfo/version b/extra/zoneinfo/version new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63f58006ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extra/zoneinfo/version @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +2018i