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@@ -346,10 +346,8 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
# Angola
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
-# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
-# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
-# (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect.
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
+# For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon.
#
Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
0:52:04 - LMT 1911 Dec 31 23:00u # Luanda MT?
@@ -1086,10 +1084,10 @@ Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:24 - LMT 1920
4:00 - +04
# India
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
-# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26)
-# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
-# Portuguese India switched to UT +05 on 1912-01-01.
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a
+# heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
+# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-24), Portuguese India switched to
+# UT +05 on 1912-01-01 (see Europe/Lisbon).
#Zone Asia/Panaji [not enough info to complete]
# Cambodia
@@ -1829,6 +1827,27 @@ Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901
Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
12:00 - +12
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-22):
+# The following zones pretend that standard time extends backward
+# indefinitely into the past, and so are ahistorical.
+# In current TZDB these entries are links to geographical locations
+# that agree with the ahistorical zones since 1970.
+# These are in numeric rather than alphabetic order.
+
+# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone HST -10:00 - HST
+Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT
+Zone MST -7:00 - MST
+Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT
+Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT
+Zone EST -5:00 - EST
+Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT
+Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT
+Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT
+Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT
+Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT
+
# Local Variables:
# coding: utf-8
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